COVID-19: What’s new
- Public health orders (updated Jan. 8): Sports and recreation, gyms and fitness centres, accommodation, faith-based organizations, performing arts, movie theatres, retail and vending markets, party buses and limousines, mandatory masks, worker health checks, more info.
- Inspections and consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Resources: Mental health guides for workers and employers, workplace masks poster, face shields in non-health care settings, reviewing and updating your COVID-19 safety plan, revised entry-check poster for workers and visitors, information in other languages
COVID-19: Information and resources
Protocols for Phase 2 and 3 industries, Protocols for Phase 1 industries, General health and safety, COVID-19 Safety Plan template, OHS guideline G3.3 (COVID-19 Safety Plan), and more resources; Claims, Insurance
Bill 23, Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2020
Overview of changes in effect Jan. 1, 2021, Summary of provisions, Historical reports, Board of Directors’ decision on the consequential amendments
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Industry Initiatives
WorkSafeBC’s Industry Initiatives identify additional sectors and subsectors, outside of the High Risk Strategies, with a high risk of serious workplace injury and significant contribution to the serious injury rate. Each initiative focuses prevention efforts on identified areas of high risk in order to apply resources and effort where they will be most effective.
Thirteen industry initiatives have been identified for 2020.
Occupational disease
- Asbestos – commercial
- Asbestos – residential
- Lead, silica, sensitizers, solar radiation, welding fumes, noise exposure
Risk-based / specialty
Vulnerable worker
- Agriculture
- Bullying, harassment and discrimination
- Program and committee evaluation (PACE)
- Serious injury prevention initiative (SIPI)