Managing occupational health and safety
Last updated: February 23, 2023
Learn how to build and maintain a safe and healthy workplace in the BC Public Service where employees feel respected, supported and engaged.
A new Occupational Health and Safety for Supervisors virtual course is available on the LearningHUB
. For more information, refer to the full description of the new course on COMPASS.
Supervisors play a key role in ensuring a healthy and safe workplace.
You must:
- Practice due diligence
- Be familiar with all employees' health and safety responsibilities under the Workers Compensation Act
- Understand the role of WorkSafeBC
To ensure safety program components are understood and implemented in your workplace:
- Establish what hazards exist and what training will help staff mitigate or work safely with those hazards. Review Hazard-specific plans and Bio-hazards, occupational diseases and hepatitis B
- Review safety training needs with employees that are familiar with the workplace and processes
Be aware of the supervisor and executive safety roles and responsibilities.
For more about managing workplace safety in the BC Public Service, review:
- Accident prevention and investigation
- Ergonomics
- First aid
- JOHSC for supervisors
- Indoor air quality
- Impairment in the workplace
- Injury and incident reporting
- Targeted violence and suicide threats
- Workplace inspections
- WorkSafeBC inspections
- WorkSafeBC and reporting injuries
- Violence in the workplace
Other essential resources:
