Roles and responsibilities
 
Joint Health and Safety Committee

• Identify hazards, make recommendations to remove hazards and improve safety
• Post minutes and agendas before and after meeting
• One employee member and one management member must be Certified in Part 1 Basic Certification Training and Part 2 Workplace Hazard Training

 
Management

• Overall responsibility for policy direction and planning
• Review of control information
• Delegation of responsibility and authority
• Budget allocation for health and safety
• Active support of health and safety procedures
• Hold accountable those managers and supervisors reporting to them.

 
Supervisors (1), Foreman (2)

• Responsible for employee and equipment training and workplace inspections    
• Supervise to ensure correct working procedures are followed     
• Communicate hazards and control procedures to workers           
• Take reasonable precautions to ensure safety of workers            
• Information feedback to management and employees                 
• Co-operate with health and safety Committee members               
• Hold accountable those employees reporting to them

    
All employees

• Report known workplace hazards to employer, supervisor or foreman
• Report known defective equipment or protective devices
• Report all accidents to employer or supervisor or foreman
• No matter how minor, report all injuries to supervisor
• Comply with company rules and procedures
• Use machinery, equipment, tools, etc., only as authorized and in a safe manner
• Follow job procedures
• Co-operate with health and safety committee members
• Use or wear personal protective equipment as required
• Report to work free of the influence of drugs and alcohol (zero tolerance)
• Never work in a manner or situation that is unsafe
• All employees are responsible for personal, co-worker and public safety
• Read all owner’s manuals
• Request training as required

 
Communication

• Handed out to all employees every year
• Included in ABC Health and Safety Policy since April 2000

 
Training

• Handed out every year to all employees
• Employer, supervisors and foremen attend seminars, workshops and safety courses during the year (Landscape Ontario workshops, Farm Safety, Hamilton Bobcat, etc.)
• Records are in health and safety room
• List dates and names of certification training

 
Evaluation

• JHSC review every spring of each year
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Acknowledgement

• Company dinner, company kick-off meetings
• JHSC review every spring each year and make changes and or recommendations as needed

 
 
More information is available on the Ministry of Labour website.