Joint Health & Safety Committee
- Are inspections and meetings being performed regularly?
- Are meetings focused and productive?
- Are meeting minutes and action items documented?
- Are assignments completed? Does follow up take place?
- Are both workers and management frustrated with lack of progress?
- Are your monthly audits coming in "no hazards observed" while
accidents/incidents suggest otherwise?
The Ontario Health & Safety Act requires any workplace with more than 20
employees to have a Joint Health & Safety Committee (JHSC) with both worker
and management representatives educated in the Ontario Health & Safety Act
in order to monitor, manage and improve the safety of the workplace.
Our experience has been that these well-intentioned volunteers struggle to
perform the legislated duties of the OSHA in addition to their full-time jobs.
Safety Diligence offers programs to support the committee and meet the legislated
requirements using a proven approach that delivers timely, cost-effective and
fully-documented results.
Joint Health & Safety Committee Programs:
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Meeting Management
- Scheduling of audits, meetings, documented minutes and resulting
action items, follow up on assigned activities
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Workplace Inspection
- Walkthrough plants, offices and other work areas with your
Worker representative once per month to identify potential hazards
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Accident Investigation
- Assist Worker representative with investigation of accidents/incidents
to arrive at root cause, document findings, create action plan for
prevention and prove "due diligence"
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Work Stoppages
- Assist committee members in their efforts to reach a mutually acceptable
solution, preferably without involving the Ministry of Labor - play the role
of mediator as needed
- Once resolution has been reached help all involved parties put the
incident in the past and move on productively
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