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Conducting a Hazard Assessment after a floodBusinesses impacted by a flood must take steps to ensure their personal safety and their employees, including a hazard assessment. Do not enter a flood-damaged location without first reviewing the risks and putting protections from potential hazards in place.
Occupational Hygiene – Getting StartedThis is an awareness-level course that helps you anticipate, identify, evaluate, and control occupational hygiene-related workplace hazards to assist in preventing employee illness and injury. It will help you understand your responsibilities under health and safety legislation, including due diligence, hazard prevention, workplace inspections, and incident investigation. This course will also raise awareness on when […]
Checklist for Working from HomeIf employees work from home, it is the employer’s responsibility to ensure their health and safety.
COVID-19 safety planAs our knowledge of the COVID-19 virus grows, we need to review our COVID-19 Safety Plan to ensure that it remains effective and relevant to protect our workplaces and communities. Use this checklist as a guide to help strengthen your plan.
WorkSafeBC Student Video Contest: Use Your Voice for SafetyEvery year, WorkSafe BC hosts a video competition encouraging youth from across BC to submit a video about workplace safety.  With a total of $10,000 in prizes available, this year’s theme, “Use your voice for safety,” brought in dozens of submissions from youth in the province. The Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC, along with Seaspan, […]
How manufacturers can reduce third party risk from OEMs and integratorsModern manufacturing is rarely self contained. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators are deeply embedded in operations, and while that close connectivity delivers efficiency, it also introduces third party risk that can disrupt production and revenue. OEMs can create exposure through defective or delayed parts, service failures, supply chain interruptions, recalls and remote system […]
A Culture of Prevention: Leading the Way to COR/OSSE CertificationIn 2015, when Breanne O’Neil joined the industrial slurry pump manufacturer as a talent acquisition manager, she saw an organization that cared, yet still operated with an “it’s how we’ve always done it” mindset. “Safety… always mattered,” she says. “We didn’t really have a lot of big problems, but it was a lot more procedural […]
Make It Safe Okanagan 2026 Photo LibraryA big thank you to everyone who came out to our Make It Safe Okanagan event this past Thursday in Kelowna. We saw manufacturing professionals from across the Okanagan come together to learn, practice, and celebrate workplace safety. Creating safer workspaces is an ongoing process, and by being involved in MIS Okanagan, you’re contributing to […]