Emergency Contacts Sheet
This contact sheet should be added on safety boards, featuring essential phone numbers. It serves as a quick reference in case of emergencies.
This contact sheet should be added on safety boards, featuring essential phone numbers. It serves as a quick reference in case of emergencies.
In 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation requirements for safety headgear changed. Under the revised requirement, employers must take steps to eliminate or reduce head injury risks before relying on safety headgear such as hard hats. This resource for workers describes the changes to the requirements. It also includes a process map describing the steps you can take if religious headwear or other reasons prevent you from wearing a hard hat in the workplace.
Every year, workers are injured on the job from slips, trips, and falls. This can result in a minor injury like a sprain, strain, or bruise but it can also be more serious like a head injury. Preventative measures are crucial.
Every year, workers are injured on the job from slips, trips, and falls. This can result in a minor injury like a sprain, strain, or bruise but it can also be more serious like a head injury. Preventative measures are crucial.
Workers in British Columbia have 3 basic rights in regards to safety. Learn what they are in this 2 minute video.
You are required to refuse work that you believe is likely to harm you or someone else.
You cannot be fired for refusing unsafe work.
For further details on refusing unsafe work, refer to the WorkSafeBC OHS Regulation 3.12 – “Refusal of Unsafe Work”
WorkSafeBC requires that all employers must ensure that a young or new worker is given a health and safety orientation and training specific to his/her workplace before the young or new worker begins work.
To help employers in the film and performing arts industry come into compliance with these WorkSafeBC regulations (sect, 3.22-3.25), Actsafe’s fillable PDF checklist includes a brief overview of what the regulation is and how it pertains to the motion picture and performing arts industries. It summarizes each new section, provides tips for effective orientation and training, and includes an orientation checklist.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
This poster was created to provide step-by-step instructions for washing your hands to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Performing Artists are often involved in scenes requiring physical contact, including kissing, and as such, require health and safety considerations to prevent the potential spread of communicable diseases. For example, what are the responsibilities of artists with HIV or Hepatitis B & C in such situations? And what are employers responsible for?
These are complicated questions and answering them involves considering employment law, criminal law and privacy legislation. The following information is intended to provide a brief overview of the issues.
Actsafe Safety Association would like to acknowledge and honour that our workplace and classrooms are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), and Stz’uminus peoples.
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