(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) Job safety analyses are hazards assessments that you conduct before you got out in the field. It is a step-by-step breakdown of the task or job and for each task, health and safety hazards are identified and control measures are put in place. Job safety analyses are an essential part of [...]
The government of Canada has a list of all occupations in Canada with the nine essential skills broken out and complexity levels from one to five assigned to each inherent in each occupation. Some examples of the nine skills are reading, writing, knowledge, numerical skills, analytical and working well with others. Some examples of the [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) When it comes to the audit process, the auditors have to select the interviewees, not the company. They will work with the company in selecting the interviewees, in terms of the fact that they have to know who is there? Who isn't? Who has a good command of the English language, [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) If you receive a high audit score, in your audit, do you not get complacent. Do not think you don't have to do an action plan. You don't have to work on your health and safety program. An audit is snapshot in time. It can change from one moment to the [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) The different components of the health and safety audit. Next, after hazard control, is inspections, where you monitor the health and safety status of your program, you check the hazards so there are no uncontrolled hazards, and you ensure that you are aware of the state of your organization. Then is [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) Every audit in Alberta is unique to the industry that it's in. There are 14 certifying partners in Alberta currently and each has their own health and safety audit. Basically, they've done an analysis that hazard identification and hazard control, regardless of what audit you use, is worth 33% of the [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) COR and SECOR stands for the Certificate of Recognition program, COR, for larger employees, 11 or more. SECOR is the small employer Certificate of Recognition program for 10 or less employees, and it's usually done by the company themselves. The intent is to attain a Certificate of Recognition which is comparing [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) There have been some changes to the WCB Act and Regulations this year. Basically what's happening as of April 1, traumatic psychological injury, like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is now compensatable under the WCB Act and Regulations. As of September 1, 2018 if workers worked a year or more at your [...]
(Transcribed from Video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJpRJg2P6hIvx7JAQsRAxQ) Well, I'm certified in seven different health and safety areas. We do oil and gas, we do trucking, we do construction, we do food processing, we do manufacturing, and we also do grab bags, like AASP - the Alberta Association of Safety Partnerships, which has things like staffing agencies, retail, security, [...]
One word--the Canadian Model for Drug and Alcohol Use established by the Construction Owners Association of Alberta and Energy Safety of Canada formerly known as Enform. This system incorporates the leading legal opinions on drugs in the work place and how they affect workers in the workplace and employer's duties and responsibilities. Google the Construction [...]
