COR for Small Employers

19 or Less Full Time Employees

Certification
Maintenance
Re-Certification
Documents

COR Certification

AgSafe's Small Employer COR Certification process.

  • Complete and submit AgSafe's COR Registration Form.

    Note: Find your CU here.

  • Connect with your AgSafe Advisor or Regional Safety Consultant.

    Note: This is to ensure the company has a health and safety management system that meets AgSafe’s Small COR audit standard.

  • Have a permanent employee complete AgSafe’s COR Internal Auditor Training.

    Note: A company can use an AgSafe approved External Auditor to conduct any of their COR audits. More information about AgSafe’s Internal Auditor Training is available here.

  • Conduct a Small COR Certification Audit.

  • Submit the Certification Audit for a quality assurance review.

  • If the Certification Audit meets the audit requirements (minimum 80% overall with at least 50% in each element), a Small COR Certificate may be issued.

    Note: The COR Certificate is valid for 3 years, providing annual maintenance audit requirements are met.

Maintaining COR Certification Status

Maintenance Audits must be conducted and submitted to AgSafe in years 2 and 3 in order to maintain COR status. Small COR Maintenance Audits can be conducted by the company’s qualified internal auditor or an AgSafe approved external auditor.

  • Conduct a Small COR Maintenance Audit.

  • Submit the Maintenance Audit for a quality assurance review.

  • Based on your Maintenance Audit, continue to work on improving your Health and Safety Management Program.

Re-certifying COR Certification

A Re-certification Audit must be conducted and submitted to AgSafe for quality assurance review by the original certification expiry date.

The Small COR Re-certification Audit can be conducted by an AgSafe qualified internal auditor or an AgSafe approved external auditor.

Documents

The audit tools allow you to see the COR certification requirements and will help pinpoint the gaps in your current Health and Safety Management Program. Your local AgSafe Consultant or Advisor can help you to understand the audit and how to apply it to your workplace.
Notice of Audit Activities

When your company has an establish Health and Safety Management Program in place and would like to initiate the COR Audit process. Please download the “Notice of Audit Activities” form to fill out and send into cor@agsafebc.ca.

Note: The Notice of Audit Activities form should be submitted two weeks prior to starting the audit

Audit Report

The Audit Report is a comprehensive document, and includes items such as Audit Checklist, Documentation Requirements, and Interview Questions.

For your convenience the following documents are also available to download individually:

Audit Tool
This excel document is used to calculate the scores for each of the 8 elements in the COR Audit.
Policies & Procedures Manual

This document covers AgSafe's policies and procedures for the COR Certification process.