WorkSafeBC’s Prevention Services teams are working to reduce the rate of serious injuries in the oil and gas sector. Through a combination of targeted inspections, health and safety consultations, and strategic partnerships, we’re focusing our prevention efforts on helping workplaces in the energy sector manage their risks.
As part of this work, our officers will be engaging with workers, supervisors, managers, and joint health and safety committee members or safety representatives on site visits to ensure that identified workplace risks have appropriate controls applied and are being effectively managed.
Managing risk in your workplace is important to reduce the potential for injury or disease. The resources listed here provide detailed information to help you understand and address some of the health and safety issues in the energy sector.
Additional information and resources are available on our Oil & gas industry webpage, and from our industry partner, Energy Safety Canada.
Managing safety
Employer safety planning
- Basics of due diligence
- Creating and Managing a Healthy and Safe Workplace
- Emergency evacuation planning for your workplace
- Employer Health and Safety Planning Tool Kit: Quick Reference Guide
- Managing risk
- Safe Work Practices and Responsibilities for Power Producers
- Supervising for Safety (online course)
First aid updates
Joint health & safety committees
Pipeline construction
Wildlife and wildfire safety
- Plan for and prevent encounters with bears and other hazardous wildlife
- Health and safety resources for wildfire season
Occupational exposure
- Breathe Safer: How to Use Respirators Safely and Start a Respirator Program
- Hazards of Confined Spaces
- Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) Risk Assessment Worksheet
- Preventing Heat Stress at Work
Noise
- Hear for Good: Preventing Noise Exposure at Work
- How loud is it? — Oil and gas
- Noise control and hearing conservation program
Mobile equipment
- Stability and handling hazards of driving trucks and trailers with live loads
- Reducing the risk of workers being struck by vehicles or mobile equipment
- Fore-aft rollover hazard while using side-boom pipelayers on slopes
Hazardous energy
- Controlling Hazardous Energy: De-Energization and Lockout
- Diesel trucks, fuel tank vent systems, refuelling, and the risk of flash fires
- Hydrocarbon storage tank explosions and static electricity
- Preventing explosions in shipping containers used outside the shipping industry
- Pyrophoric materials create fire and explosion hazard
- Reducing the risk of pentane gas fires and explosions for users of expanded polystyrene foam
- Non-bonded fuel hoses create fire and explosion hazards