Roles and responsibilities
Joint Health and Safety Committee
- Identify hazards, make recommendations to remove hazards and improve safety
- Post minutes and agendas before and after meeting
- One employee member and one management member must be Certified in Part 1 Basic Certification Training and Part 2 Workplace Hazard Training
Management
- Overall responsibility for policy direction and planning
- Review of control information
- Delegation of responsibility and authority
- Budget allocation for health and safety
- Active support of health and safety procedures
- Hold accountable those managers and supervisors reporting to them.
Supervisors (1), Foreman (2)
- Responsible for employee and equipment training and workplace inspections
- Supervise to ensure correct working procedures are followed
- Communicate hazards and control procedures to workers
- Take reasonable precautions to ensure safety of workers
- Information feedback to management and employees
- Co-operate with health and safety Committee members
- Hold accountable those employees reporting to them
All employees
- Report known workplace hazards to employer, supervisor or foreman
- Report known defective equipment or protective devices
- Report all accidents to employer or supervisor or foreman
- No matter how minor, report all injuries to supervisor
- Comply with company rules and procedures
- Use machinery, equipment, tools, etc., only as authorized and in a safe manner
- Follow job procedures
- Co-operate with health and safety committee members
- Use or wear personal protective equipment as required
- Report to work free of the influence of drugs and alcohol (zero tolerance)
- Never work in a manner or situation that is unsafe
- All employees are responsible for personal, co-worker and public safety
- Read all owner’s manuals
- Request training as required
Communication
- Handed out to all employees every year
- Included in ABC Health and Safety Policy since April 2000
Training
- Handed out every year to all employees
- Employer, supervisors and foremen attend seminars, workshops and safety courses during the year (Landscape Ontario workshops, Farm Safety, Hamilton Bobcat, etc.)
- Records are in health and safety room
- List dates and names of certification training
Evaluation
- JHSC review every spring of each year
Acknowledgement
- Company dinner, company kick-off meetings
- JHSC review every spring each year and make changes and or recommendations as needed
More information is available on the Ministry of Labour website.
