{"id":3236,"date":"2024-01-29T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safecarebc.ca\/?page_id=3236"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:41:43","slug":"joint-health-and-safety-committees-johsc-and-health-and-safety-representatives-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/?page_id=3236","title":{"rendered":"Joint health and safety committees (JOHSC) and health and safety representatives in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your joint health and safety committee or worker health and safety representative supports the employer's duty to ensure a safe and healthy workplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joint health and safety committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A workplace with 20 or more workers employed for over a month requires a joint committee. This committee pairs employer and worker representatives to identify and support resolving health and safety issues jointly. WorkSafeBC may also require a joint committee in other workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Worker health and safety representative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A workplace with more than nine but less than 20 workers must have a worker health and safety representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/topics\/joint-health-safety-committee\/\" data-type=\"safetytopic\" data-id=\"1383\">Learn more about health and safety committees.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your joint health and safety committee or worker health and safety representative supports a safe and healthy workplace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 18:31:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}