Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and safe British Columbia Day weekend!
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Positions Available: Safety Advisor
Job Description for Safety Advisor
About Us
Actsafe supports the Entertainment industry in British Columbia by providing occupational health & safety advisory services, resources, training and support as needed to help employers, workers and supervisors achieve a healthy and safe workplace. Actsafe was established in 1998 and we serve members in the motion picture, television, performing arts, commercial production and live event industries in British Columbia. We employ a professional team of industry advisors, health & safety specialists to support our members. We are a not-for-profit industry organization passionate about what we do and how we impact people every day.
We want to continue to engage our membership while looking forward to assist more entertainment companies, large and small, to have a good health and safety program. If you are an enthusiastic safety professional who brings exceptional knowledge, standards and experience in engaging with members to implement high quality safety programs, here is an opportunity to serve the entertainment industry by joining Actsafe Safety Association.
Job Summary:
The aim of the Safety Advisor is to offer value to our members without compromise, deliver the highest level of service by assisting our members to implement Health & Safety Management programs through advising, training and providing resources.
This position will be based in Burnaby, BC.
Key activities and responsibilities
Safety Program Advisory Services
Resource development and Training facilitation
Membership Engagement
Job Requirements:
This job is for professionals who are passionate about occupational health and safety. To be successful you must be:
Education & Experience:
A Typical Day:
The Safety Advisor is a key position at Actsafe. This position will promote a culture of safety by working closely with all performing arts industry groups to motivate and encourage a safe working atmosphere. But it doesn’t stop there! Managing ongoing requirements, maintaining statistics, help the team to build resources, responding to calls from employers and workers, and other stakeholders; and increase industry memberships are all in a day’s work.
Perks:
At Actsafe you’ll work in a result -driven environment and make an impact to the lives of people in British Columbia. Below are just a few reasons why people love working here:
If you are driven and aspire to belong to a dynamic, values-driven organization, kindly forward your resume to shraddhaparikh@actsafe.ca.
Download the job description here.
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Also, in this month’s edition, be in with a chance of winning a pass to the Actsafe Event Safety Conference 2019!
Nancy Harwood, Chair of the Board of Directors of Actsafe Safety Association, is pleased to announce that Manu (Manobhiram) Nellutla has been selected as the organization’s new Executive Director, effective March 11th, 2019.
“On behalf of the Board of Directors of Actsafe, I wish to welcome Manu to his new role and say how much we are looking forward to Actsafe’s future with his leadership. Manu was selected by the Board’s Recruitment Committee from a field of highly qualified candidates after a rigorous search”, stated Ms Harwood. “ We are very impressed with Manu’s experience and successes as a senior executive with another progressive health and safety association, his passion for health and safety, and his proven leadership abilities.”
Manu brings a wealth of expertise from his current position as Chief Operating Officer with the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC (MSABC) to his new role. Actsafe’s entertainment industries will be well served by Manu’s experience of delivering high-quality services and resources to stakeholders and advancing initiatives that lead to successful health and safety outcomes for industry.
Manu has a background in the fields of ergonomics, education, health and safety, and research. He holds a Masters in Physiotherapy with specialization in musculoskeletal and sports, Post Graduate Diploma in Ergonomics, Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration.
Before his tenure at MSABC, Manu was a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Rwanda. He has also taught Occupational Health and Safety in MSc Public Health program at Mount Kenya University.
“I am very excited and grateful for this opportunity to provide leadership at Actsafe,” said Nellutla. “I am looking forward to working with the Actsafe team, industry members and all other stakeholders as we strive towards making British Columbia the safest province to work in the entertainment industry.”
The official announcement can be found here. Welcome Manu!
In the January 2019 issue:
Also, in this month’s edition, be in with a chance of winning tickets to see an advance screening of ‘Stan & Ollie’.
Motion Picture Safety Awareness is making the move…to online!
Launching January 7th, you will now be able to complete this free course online, at your leisure.
This interactive, video-game style course takes approximately 5 hours and can be completed in parts, all while collecting both stars and knowledge along the way!
Click here to begin the course!
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For the full opportunity description, click here.
The Executive Director is responsible for the effective administration of Actsafe Safety Association, and for achieving the goals of the mission statement and the objectives set by the Board of Directors. Appointed by the Board of Directors and reporting to the Chair, the Executive Director provides leadership in the management of Actsafe, the facilitation of stakeholder input, and directs the staff in the planning and development, administration, finance, management, and mentoring of all Actsafe activities.
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Julian Manchon or Tony Kirschner
LEADERS INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SEARCH #880—609 Granville Street Vancouver,
BC V7Y 1G5
Phone: (604) 688-8422
Email: vancouver@leadersinternational.com
To celebrate Actsafe’s 20th year in the business of helping to keep workers safe we’ve launched a new digital safety initiative, Actsafe Injury Prevention Week (AIP Week). Each year AIP Week will highlight preventable industry injuries within different sectors of production work. This year’s week long campaign is entitled Back Here, Safety Matters and puts a focus on the leading causes of injury in BC’s motion picture industry and its workers, working on and around trucks.
Actsafe’s inaugural AIP Week begins the week of November 5th. During campaign week, Actsafe will provide productions with additional resources, with an aim to help employers, supervisors and workers address the theme of the campaign. In addition, film studios will feature large art installations drawing attention to, and creating conversations around, the resources necessary to keep a production’s crew safe around trucks.
For further info check out our page dedicated to AIP Week here.
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Recreational marijuana officially became legal in Canada on Oct. 17, 2018.
Impairment from substance use can cause physical and behavioural changes that affect a person’s ability to work safely. Workplace impairment as an occupational health and safety issue is of increasing concern to British Columbia employers, workers, and other stakeholders.
Employers are encouraged to develop policies and procedures that address impairment in the workplace. An impairment policy that takes a fitness-to-work approach to impairment can help you to meet your workplace safety obligations. You should also communicate your impairment policy clearly to workers.
Further resources;
In the September 2018 issue:
Geoff Teoli has accepted an exciting new position with the City of Vancouver so, unfortunately, this means that his last day with Actsafe will be October 5th, 2018.
Over the past five years Geoff has led Actsafe through significant innovation and growth, enhancing our organization’s delivery of services and support to the motion picture, television, performing arts and live event industries. He will leave a legacy of strong leadership, collaboration and passionate commitment to Actsafe’s health and safety mission.
We would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Actsafe Team, Board of Directors, Standing Committees and our communities at large, to thank him for his support throughout his tenure with Actsafe. Please join us in wishing Geoff tremendous success in his future endeavours.
You can find Actsafe Safety Association’s Board Chair, Nancy Harwood’s, official announcement of this news here.
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A forum held February 5, 2011 in Vancouver brought together 45 leaders in the Motion Picture industry to discuss how to build a stronger culture of safety. Billed “A Conversation that Matters”, department heads, producers, supervisors and production managers from across the industry identified several themes over the course of the day using a Word Cafe format.
Actsafe brought in Graphic Recording Artist Avril Orloff to produce an illustration of the event.
Browse through our gallery to see photos of the event.
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We’ve dedicated the February 2017 issue to the inaugural Actsafe Event Safety Conference.
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Click on the link below to view the digital version of our new Print Newsletter!
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