SafeCare BC wants to ensure you are prepared for the new Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee (JOHSC) regulations that will become\u00a0effective on April 3, 2017.\u00a0Under the new regulations employers will now be required to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can review\u00a0the new regulations as explained by WorkSafe BC<\/a>. A high-level overview of these changes is provided below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SafeCare will be hosting a teleconference to answer any questions about the changes in regulations on May 8th, 2017 at 1 p.m. Please check our website to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Section 3.26(2) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (OHSR)<\/em> will now require employers to ensure that an evaluation<\/strong> of each of its joint committees is conducted annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The purpose of the evaluation is to ensure that joint committees are meeting their\u00a0regulatory requirements<\/strong>\u00a0under the\u00a0Workers Compensation<\/em>\u00a0Act<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0OHSR<\/em> and to assess the\u00a0overall effectiveness<\/strong>\u00a0of the joint committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint committee evaluations must be conducted by the co-chairs of the joint committee or their designates or the employer or a person retained by the employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WorkSafe BC will make an evaluation tool available online that can be used by joint committees to complete their evaluation. Use of the tool is not mandatory \u2013 other tools can be used as long as they meet or exceed all the requirements for an evaluation. One such tool is this JOHSC Checklist<\/a> from the BCFED\u2019s Health and Safety Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint committee must discuss the finished evaluation at the joint committee\u2019s next meeting and may respond to the findings. The joint committee\u2019s discussion and evaluation must be incorporated into the joint committee\u2019s meeting report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Section 3.27 of the\u00a0Occupational Health and Safety Regulation<\/em>\u00a0(OHSR) will now require\u00a0new<\/strong>\u00a0joint committee members to receive instruction and training\u00a0in the duties and functions of joint\u00a0committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This training must be provided to all members joining the JOHSC after the April 3 effective date and within 6 months<\/strong>\u00a0of the individual joining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This instruction and training must be a minimum of 8 hours in length and must cover the following six topics:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n SafeCare BC JOHS Committee Training<\/p>\n\n\n\n The time to do this training is considered \u2018work\u2019; therefore, the employer must pay for the training under BC\u2019s\u00a0Employment Standards Act<\/em>.\u00a0It is important to\u00a0note that this training does not count as part of the annual educational leave for JOHSC members, who are also entitled to 8 hours of educational leave each year\u00a0upon request to the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Employers must keep the training records for two years from the date the person ceases to be a member of the employer\u2019s joint committee and must provide the person with a copy of their training record as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SafeCare BC wants to ensure that you are prepared for the new Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee (JOHSC) regulations that will become effective on April 3, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,68],"tags":[],"topic":[169],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-regulatory","topic-joint-occupational-health-and-safety-committee"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 20:46:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Evaluating Joint Committee\u00a0effectiveness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Training for New Joint Committee Members<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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![<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSafeCare BC JOHS Committee Training<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nthe\u00a0duties<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0functions\u00a0<\/strong>of a joint committee;<\/li>\n\n\n\nthe rules<\/strong> and procedures<\/strong> of a joint committee;<\/li>\n\n\n\nthe requirements respecting investigations<\/strong> under the Act<\/em>;<\/li>\n\n\n\nthe requirements respecting inspections<\/strong> under the OHSR;<\/li>\n\n\n\nthe requirements regarding refusal of unsafe work<\/strong> under the OHSR;<\/li>\n\n\n\nthe requirements respecting the evaluation<\/strong> of joint committees under section 3.26 of OHSR (see above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe time to do this training is considered \u2018work\u2019; therefore, the employer must pay for the training under BC\u2019s\u00a0Employment Standards Act<\/em>.\u00a0It is important to\u00a0note that this training does not count as part of the annual educational leave for JOHSC members, who are also entitled to 8 hours of educational leave each year\u00a0upon request to the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEmployers must keep the training records for two years from the date the person ceases to be a member of the employer\u2019s joint committee and must provide the person with a copy of their training record as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResources:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nReview\u00a0the new regulations in full as outlined by WorkSafeBC.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nEvaluate your joint committee with this checklist <\/a>from the BCFED\u2019s Health and Safety Center\u00a0or use this\u00a010-dimension\u00a0self-assessment tool<\/a>\u00a0developed by the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease.<\/li>\n\n\n\nSee if SafeCare BC has an upcoming\u00a0<\/a>joint committee training session, or contact\u00a0info@safecarebc.ca<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SafeCare BC wants to ensure that you are prepared for the new Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee (JOHSC) regulations that will become effective on April 3, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,68],"tags":[],"topic":[169],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-regulatory","topic-joint-occupational-health-and-safety-committee"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 20:46:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/bjy6af.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/JOHS-e1450290297171.jpg\"){kind=link}