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Policy and Practice Consultative Committee

Date and time: Monday, March 30, 2015 at 9:30 a.m.

Location: RC22A42 – Policy, Regulation and Research Division Meeting Room

Agenda March 2015

No. Subject Type Time
1. Minutes from January 22, 2015
(Roberta Ellis – 5 mins)		 Decision 9:30–9:35 a.m.
2.

Compensation and Assessment Policy Update
(Lori Guiton – 15 mins)

  • Policy Consultation Process
  • Calculation of Long Term Average Earnings for GECA Employees

Verbal

 9:35–9:50 a.m.
3.

OHS Regulation and Policy Update
(John Panusa – 10 mins)

  • E-Cigarettes Update, Bill 14 – 2015 (Tobacco Control Amendment Act, 2015)
  • WHMIS 2015

Verbal

 9:50–10:00 a.m.
4.

Macatee Report Implementation
(John Panusa – 15 mins)

  • Bill 9 – 2015 (Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2015) and the WorkSafeBC Workplan

Verbal

 10:00–10:15 a.m.
5.

Update on Discriminatory Action Files
(Roberta Ellis – 10 mins)

 Verbal 10:15–10:25 a.m.
6.

Experience Rating – Transportation Incidents
(Dave Earle – 10 mins)

Verbal

 10:25–10:35 a.m.
  Break (15 mins)   10:35–10:50 a.m.
7. Health and Safety Summary Report
(Tom Brocklehurst – 10 mins) 		Verbal 10:50–11:00 a.m.
8. Definition of Serious Injury
(Sheila Moir – 10 mins)		 Verbal 11:00–11:10 a.m.
9. Review Division Update
(Susan Hynes – 20 mins)		 Visual/Verbal 11:10–11:30 a.m.
10. Communicating OHS Requirements
(Doug Alley – 20 mins)		 Verbal 11:30–11:50 a.m.
11. Items Resolved After Last Meeting
(Peter Regier – 5 mins)
  • New Penalty Process – impact on EAO
  • Anonymity of callers to Prevention Line
  • Role of the JHSC in investigations
 Verbal 11:50–11:55 a.m.
12.

Other Business (5 mins)

 

 11:55 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Guidelines    
1. G5.53-4 Occupational hygiene methods acceptable to WorkSafeBC (Preliminary Revision) Reading materials No time
2. G9.1-1 Excluded confined spaces (Preliminary Revision) Reading materials No time
3. G21.5 Authority to blast (Preliminary Revision) Reading materials No time
4. G21.82 Underwater blasting (Preliminary Issue) Reading materials No time
5. G23.22 Driver training (Preliminary Revision) Reading materials No time

Next Meeting: April 29, 2015