Certificate of Recognition (COR) Resources

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Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems | An occupational health and safety (OHS) management system encompasses more than just your health and safety program. It includes health and safety policies, systems, standards, and records, and involves incorporating your health and safety activities and program into your other business processes. Having an effective management system improves your ability to continuously identify hazards and control risks in your workplace.

Small Employer
19 or Less Workers

Large Employer
20 or More Workers

Small Employer

To assist employers in building their company's Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Program, the example templates and guidance below may be helpful. Employers are encouraged to customize these to fit their individual operation's needs when building or enhancing the OHS Program. These resources are listed in order by COR Audit Element to further assist employers when preparing for the Small Employer COR Audit

Additional support for employers can be received through working with a qualified AgSafe Safety Advisor, or Regional Safety Consultant. Please contact us for more details of this service.

COR information for Employers with 19 or less employees.

COR for Small Employers

Leadership and commitment by senior management (the CEO or most senior management) provides the vision, establishes policy, sets goals, and provides resources to lead and support the implementation of your OHS management programs and system.

Document Title	Link
Communication Policy	WORD
Disciplinary Policy	WORD (English) WORD (Spanish)
Employers Due Diligence Checklist	WORD

Safe work procedures and practices ensure that everyone in the organization knows their responsibilities and can perform their duties effectively. There should be safe work procedures on an organizational level, such as how to conduct a risk assessment, as well as on a worker level, such as how to lock out properly.

Document Title	Link
Safe Work Procedure Template	WORD
Emergency Response Preparedness Assessment	WORD
Emergency Response Plan	WORD
Emergency Response Contacts	English: WORD Spanish: WORD
First Aid Contact \| Sample	WORD
First Aid Contact \| Template	English: WORD Spanish: WORD
Emergency Drill Record	WORD
Transportation of Injured or Ill Workers	WORD
Overdue and Lost Person Response Plan	WORD
How to prepare an Emergency Response Plan for your Small Business	WorkSafeBC
First Aid Assessments	Web App
If You Get Hurt At Work	PDF

Everyone in the workplace ─ from senior management to frontline workers ─ needs to understand their responsibilities when it comes to implementing and maintaining a healthy and safe workplace. Senior management should understand their role in establishing policies and continually driving the OHS management system and programs. Employers must ensure that workers are trained, qualified, and competent to perform their tasks. Supervisors must provide adequate instruction and oversight to workers so they can safely perform their work. And workers need to work safely, according to how they were trained.

Document Title	Link
Training Requirements and Responsibilities	WORD
Training Requirements Chart	WORD
Worker Certification Record	WORD
Worker Orientation Checklist	WORD
Training Record Note: The “Training Record” document is available as both Word, and Excel. Please choose whichever best suits the needs of your organization.	WORD
Training Record Note: The “Training Record” document is available as both Word, and Excel. Please choose whichever best suits the needs of your organization.	EXCEL

Managing the risk in your workplace includes identifying hazards, assessing the risks those hazards present, and controlling the risks to prevent your workers from getting injured.

Document Title	Link
Assessment of Tasks, Situations or Equipment and Risk Assessment Rating Matrix	WORD
Confined Spaces Inventory (WorkSafeBC)	PDF
Hazard Control Decision Process and Control Plan	WORD
Hazard and Site Specific Assessment	WORD
Hazard ID Policy	WORD
Hazard Reporting Form	WORD
Hazardous Materials Inventory	WORD
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Policy	WORD
Respirator Program	WORD
Risk Assessment Matrix & Blank Template	WORD
Risk Assessment Worksheet	WORD

Workplace inspections can help you to continually identify hazards and prevent unsafe working conditions from developing.

Document Title	Link
Workplace Inspection Checklist \| Blank Template	WORD
Workplace Inspection Checklist \| Sample	WORD
Workplace Inspection Policy	WORD

Conducting incident investigations helps identify immediate, and root causes of unsafe conditions. It also identifies ways to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation has specific requirements for incident investigation documentation and reporting that employers are required to meet.

Document Title	Link
Incident Investigation Policy	WORD
Incident Investigation Form (WorkSafeBC)	LINK
Workplace Incident Flow Chart	PDF

Regularly assessing how well your organization is doing when it comes to meeting its health and safety goals is essential to improving your OHS management system. Maintaining accurate records of your OHS management system activities will provide useful information to help you continually improve.

Document Title	Link
Annual Review	WORD
Records Retention Guide (GovBC)	LINK

Document Title	Link
Action Plan Template	WORD

Large Employer

To assist employers in building their company's Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Program, the example templates and guidance below may be helpful. Employers are encouraged to customize these to fit their individual operation's needs when building or enhancing the OHS Program. These resources are listed in order by COR Audit Element to further assist employers when preparing for the Large Employer COR Audit

Additional support for employers can be received through working with a qualified AgSafe Safety Advisor, or Regional Safety Consultant. Please contact us for more details of this service.

COR information for Employers with 20 or more employees.

COR for Large Employers

Leadership and commitment by senior management (the CEO or most senior management) provides the vision, establishes policy, sets goals, and provides resources to lead and support the implementation of your OHS management programs and system.

Document Title	Link
Communication Policy	WORD
Disciplinary Policy	WORD (English) WORD (Spanish)
Employers Due Diligence Checklist	WORD
KPI Action Plan	WORD
Management Review Meeting	WORD
Policy Statement	WORD

Safe work procedures and practices ensure that everyone in the organization knows their responsibilities and can perform their duties effectively. There should be safe work procedures on an organizational level, such as how to conduct a risk assessment, as well as on a worker level, such as how to lock out properly.

Document Title	Link
Safe Work Procedure Template	WORD
Emergency Response Preparedness Assessment	WORD
Emergency Response Plan	WORD
Emergency Response Contacts	English: WORD Spanish: WORD
First Aid Contact \| Sample	WORD
First Aid Contact \| Template	English: WORD Spanish: WORD
Emergency Drill Record	WORD
Transportation of Injured or Ill Workers	WORD
Overdue and Lost Person Response Plan	WORD
WHMIS Policy	WORD
First Aid Assessments	WEB App
If You Get Hurt At Work	PDF

Everyone in the workplace ─ from senior management to frontline workers ─ needs to understand their responsibilities when it comes to implementing and maintaining a healthy and safe workplace. Senior management should understand their role in establishing policies and continually driving the OHS management system and programs. Employers must ensure that workers are trained, qualified, and competent to perform their tasks. Supervisors must provide adequate instruction and oversight to workers so they can safely perform their work. And workers need to work safely, according to how they were trained.

Document Title	Link
Safety Talk Template	PDF
Safety Talk Template	WORD
Training Matrix Template	EXCEL
Training Requirements and Responsibilities	WORD
Training Record	WORD
Training Requirements	WORD
Worker Certification Record	WORD
Worker Orientation Checklist	WORD

Managing the risk in your workplace includes identifying hazards, assessing the risks those hazards present, and controlling the risks to prevent your workers from getting injured.

Document Title	Link
Confined Spaces Inventory (WorkSafeBC)	PDF
Hazard ID Policy	WORD
Hazard Reporting Form	WORD
Hazardous Materials Inventory	WORD
PPE Policy	WORD
Respirator Program	WORD
Risk Assessment Matrix	WORD

Workplace inspections can help you to continually identify hazards and prevent unsafe working conditions from developing.

Document Title	Link
Workplace Inspection Checklist \| Blank Template	WORD
Workplace Inspection Policy	WORD

Conducting incident investigations helps identify immediate, and root causes of unsafe conditions. It also identifies ways to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation has specific requirements for incident investigation documentation and reporting that employers are required to meet.

Document Title	Link
Incident Investigation Policy	WORD
Incident Investigation Form (WorkSafeBC)	LINK
Workplace Incident Flow Chart	PDF

Regularly assessing how well your organization is doing when it comes to meeting its health and safety goals is essential to improving your OHS management system. Maintaining accurate records of your OHS management system activities will provide useful information to help you continually improve.

Document Title	Link
Annual Review	WORD

Joint health and safety committees and health and safety representatives assist the organization by bringing together employers and workers to jointly identify and resolve health and safety issues in your workplace. They also participate in developing and implementing your OHS management system.

Document Title	Link
Joint Health and Safety Committee Fundamentals Participant Workbook (WorkSafeBC)	Link
Joint Health and Safety Committee Handbook	WORD
Joint Health and Safety Committee Members Poster - 8.5x11	PDF
Joint Health and Safety Committee Members Poster - 11x17	PDF
Templates and Resources for Joint Health and Safety Committees (WorkSafeBC)	LINK
Records Retention Guide (GovBC)	LINK