Oh&s Officer Usw-007-25

The BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) is a strong, dynamic voice for nurses and nursing in British Columbia, representing more than 48,000 members. BCNU provides collective agreement negotiation and support to its members, as well as professional and advocacy services in the field of research, clinical practice, leadership and education. As the voice of the nursing profession in the province, we advocate for nurses and patients to ensure safe, quality, public health care for all.
**Job Title**: OH&S Officer (3 Positions)
Regular Full-Time
**Reporting To**: Coordinator, OH&S
**Posting #**: USW-007-25
**Pay Rate**: Based on an annual salary of $104,548.80 plus a salary differential of $8,420.00
**Starting**: February / March
**Posting Period**: January 28 to February 6, 2025
Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
Coach and mentor regional OHS and MH representatives’ efforts to empower members and joint occupational health and safety committee (JOHSC) reps to strengthen frontline safety culture.
- Advise and support regional representative efforts to ensure BCNU membership of local JOHSC, supporting recruitment and onboarding efforts.
- Advise regional representatives on strategies to access and review JOHSC meeting minutes for compliance, worker voice in committee business, and monitor for OHS issue escalations.
- Coach regional representatives to engage/mentor JOHSC representatives and advocates in physical and psychological safety issues surfaced by members.
- Resource regional representatives to advise JOHSC reps and members on safety responsibilities and rights including incident/hazard reporting, escalations, formal written recommendation letters, and more.
- Build resources that guide BCNU JOHSC representatives toward finding system-related causes and contributing factors when investigating safety incidents and/or hazards.
- Support the design and delivery of twice-yearly development days for the regional OHS and MH representatives.

Develop OHS resources, tools, and information to empower members as advocates in OHS.
- In consultation with regional representatives and other interest groups oversee the creation of OHS outreach materials and initiatives designed to engage BCNU membership.
- Oversee the review and addition of OHS materials on BCNU safety webpages, and toolkits to make OHS information accessible, and actionable for all members and activists.
- Support regional rep communication of OHS hot topics through provision of presentations and speaking bullets. These items may be presented by regional reps or the OHSO.
- Facilitate regional OHS initiative workshops to support member-led action to address local issues.

Design and facilitate OHS curriculum to advance physical and psychological safety knowledge.
- Develop education resources to build awareness and understanding of topics specific to occupational physical & psychological safety as required in provincial regulation, legislation, Ministry of Health policies, BCNU collective agreements, the CSA standards Health and Safety Management System Z1000-14 and PHS in the workplace Z1003-13 and more.
- Build and maintain provincial OHS curriculum for members, JOHSC Representatives and other activists.
- Create curriculum on the health and safety management system requirements and psychological health and safety in the workplace. Such as education that focuses on hazard identification and risk assessment, and the pillars outlined in CSA Z1000-14 and Z1003-13.
- Liaise with BCNU teams/departments to optimize education content, maintenance, and promotion.
- Develop orientation materials to support onboarding new OHS and MH representatives.
- Work with OHS Coordinator to establish a yearly education plan that achieves physical and psychological safety education objectives.

Serve as a union representative on provincial committees and provide advice and support to BCNU representatives on health authority committees.
- Create a coordinated approach to the addition of BCNU objectives/agenda items on Regional Psychological Health and Safety and Violence Prevention committees.
- Support regional representative participation at employer regional committees (e.g. violence prevention and PHS) through information updates, education of key issues, coordinating agenda items with other unions, etc.
- Establish and maintain a communication channel for regional representatives and the prevention team to share information/actions and gather reps’ ideas and feedback.

Advocate on policy and legislative issues.
- In consultation with OHS team provide critical review of proposed safety standards, practice directives, policies, regulations, or other guiding documents as established by provincial agencies such as the Ministry of Health, WorkSafeBC, SWITCHBC, or other agencies.
- Draft BCNU review statements and suggest revisions and additions on items from bullet one.
- Support the creation of BCNU position statements designed to advance OHS in BC healthcare.
- Participate in draf