Occupational Health
3 weeks ago
As we serve vulnerable youth, all employees working for Covenant House Vancouver must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Proof of vaccination status will be required prior to your start date.
**About Covenant House Vancouver**:
Since 1997, Covenant House Vancouver has provided relentless support for youth experiencing, or at-risk of experiencing, homelessness. We provide support to young people age 16 to 24 who have experienced a wide range of early life and ongoing, complex trauma; including physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. Our purpose is to serve all youth, with absolute respect and unconditional love, to help youth experiencing homelessness, and provide a safe and supportive environment for all youth in need.
**The Impact The Occupational Health And Safety Lead Can Make**:
Reporting to the Director, People & Culture, the Occupational Health and Safety Lead will play a vital role in fulfilling Covenant House Vancouver’s commitment to providing a safe and healthy workplace at our 3 downtown Vancouver locations. Your proactive approach for implementing strategic occupational health and safety programs, fostering a culture of health and safety awareness, and ability to lead the development of a comprehensive safety program and lead investigations are key to enable Covenant House to remain a renowned workplace.
**How You Will Contribute**:
**Main Duties**:
**Workplace culture and policies**
- Develop and implement strategies that create a culture of safety engagement amongst employees and leadership.
- Champion health and safety within Covenant House Vancouver and ensures compliance with legislation and agency policies and standards.
- Provide leadership and education to all employees on Health and Safety.
- Promote, monitor and evaluate safety programs and practices to make recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Work closely with Programs and Operations teams to identify safety risks, build preventative responses, and foster a culture of shared responsibility and commitment
- Provide leadership and serve as a point of escalation to managers on all safety matters
- Lead projects for the continuous improvement of Covenant House safety programs, including consulting with leadership to develop action plans and programs
- Drive health and safety initiatives that support achievement of agency goals.
**WorkSafe BC**
- Manage WSBC claims and oversee Stay at work and Return to Work programs.
- Manage response to WSBC Orders and Notice of Compliance responses
- Act as point of contact for WSBC.
**Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee**
- Co-chair Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee
- Function as the central point of contact to support applicable incident and near-miss reporting, investigation and follow-up.
- Provide leadership and guidance to Covenant House’s OH&S Committee(s), ensuring that they are meeting regulatory requirements as well as program/department needs.
- Support employees in investigating incidents, lead all serious incident investigations and prepare reporting, root cause analysis and follow-up of the recommendations.
**Safety Information Management**
- Provide reports and statistical information to management as required
- Analyze safety data, identify risks, and conduct research and audits
- Develop and implement ‘best practices’ annual safety plans and programs.
- Provide ongoing administrative support to Covenant House’s safety program, including managing documentation, creating and updating templates, researching best practices, and developing processes.
- Keep current on all relevant safety legislation and regulations, and ensure Covenant House remains compliant with regulatory and accreditation requirements.
**Training, Coaching & Audit**
- Lead agency Audits and safety training.
- Monitor policy changes and government initiatives, and share with leadership updates on Safety performance, H&S incident trends, root causes of issues, corrective actions, policy changes, etc.
- Build and maintain relationships with operational and functional management teams to inspire, coach, influence and challenge behaviour and leadership with the intent of driving a culture of H&S and caring for our employees.
- Provide coaching and advice to operational leadership on best practices in order to facilitate the implementation of strategic goals and awareness of emerging trends and policies.
- Conduct department-level assessments to determine compliance with safety programs, policies, and regulations, including gap analysis and review of regulatory requirements.
- Perform safety audits and inspect work areas, offices, and worksites to identify possible safety issues, and implement mitigation measures.
- Other duties as assigned
**Who We Are Looking For?**:
**Education and Experience**:
- Post-secondary education in Occupational Health and Safety
- Possession of or working towards CSSE, CRSP or similar designations a very strong asset
- Minimum of 2 years of
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