Job Description

Overview

Picture an employer who values workplace health and safety so much they consider it with every business decision they make. Sound too good to be true? The Safety Culture and Leadership team doesn\'t think so. In fact, the team exists to make that picture a reality.

Do you have experience in occupational health and safety where you have created and implemented leading practice programs to prevent injury in the workplace? Are you a creative thinker? Our Safety Culture and Leadership team has an opportunity for an OHS Consultant who will work directly with larger BC employers to help them develop leading practice health and safety programs and processes to manage their risks and improve their health and safety performance.

The Safety Culture and Leadership team (SCL) is a performance improvement consulting group within the Consultation and Education Services (CES) department in the Prevention Services division at WorkSafeBC. Working directly with external client organizations, its primary responsibility is to enable selected employers to take ownership of their occupational health and safety challenges, improve their prevention practices, and reduce their workplace injuries. Consulting in the health and safety leading practice space and working directly with clients also enables the SCL team to develop and test innovative new health and safety improvement tools. A number of these tools have become part of WorkSafeBC\xe2\x80\x99s prevention resource collection and been published. New and leading practice tool development is a significant stream of work for the Safety Culture and Leadership team

How you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a difference: You\xe2\x80\x99ll help ensure B.C. workers go home safely at the end of their workday.

Where you\xe2\x80\x99ll work

WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines the convenience of working remotely with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll work primarily from your B.C. home and occasionally in our Richmond office.

What you\'ll do

• Engage with medium and large employers and workers to help them improve their health and safety performance and provide guidance and recommendations on health and safety best practices
• Work with all stakeholders in an organization (senior management, operational management, supervisors, unions, workers, JHSCs) in identifying issues, recommending solutions, and moving employers to implementation.
• Provide leadership in identifying and implementing innovative occupational health and safety initiatives.

• Help employers build sustainable systems to control their risks
• Develop new, leading practice tools in the active safety management, risk management and safety culture areas
• Mix of individual and team-based consulting and project development work

Is this a good fit for you?

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for someone who can:

• Research, recommend, evaluate, implement, and monitor employer related health and safety OH&S improvement projects
• Think strategically and creatively to influence change within employers
• Leverage employer projects to assist in developing innovative industry-wide occupational health and safety strategies
• Provide specific industry and occupational health and safety knowledge, expertise, and guidance to employees and stakeholders
• Network and build partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
• Exhibit superior verbal and written communication skills, and exceptional organizational skills
• Continue to improve themselves and be a lifelong interdisciplinary learner

Your background and experience

• A university degree in a related discipline
• You will be required to write a Safety Culture and Leadership (SCL) specific test
• A minimum of 9 years of health and safety experience such as, but not limited to:

• Development of risk assessments
• Designing, delivering, and implementing health and safety programs, including mental health/psychological safety programs or initiatives
• Conducting workplace health and safety inspections and/or investigations
• Monitoring and evaluating an organization\xe2\x80\x99s safety performance
• Participating in health and safety audits
• Addressing health and safety compliance issues
• Developing corrective action plans to improve safety performance
• Developing business cases for health and safety improvement
• Fostering positive safety cultures

We\xe2\x80\x99ll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Successfully meet the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review Act to work with children and/or vulnerable adults.
• Confirm you\xe2\x80\x99re legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC\xe2\x80\x99s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy (the \xe2\x80\x9cPolicy\xe2\x80\x9d) is suspended effective January 9, 2023, however we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We\xe2\x80\x99re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What\xe2\x80\x99s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It\xe2\x80\x99s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

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Our benefits

As a member of our team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work \xe2\x80\x94 and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 3 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Extensive health care and dental benefits
• Optional leave and earned-time-off arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

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Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately, however must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email when you submit your application

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