The 2024 conference will be returning to the Coast Langley City Hotel and Convention Centre, Langley BC on Tuesday Oct. 22, 2024 with the optional post conference courses running Wednesday Oct. 23, 2024.
See the Opening keynote, then choose from 9 OSH different sessions, and see the small but informative table top safety tradeshow.
Optional full day post conference courses. Attendance at the conference is not a pre-requisite.
For Session Descriptions, scroll to bottom of page, or click on a session title in the grid below, or click on the button to the right:
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8:30am
Introduction & Welcome
Cascades Ballroom 1 & 2
8:45 – 9:45am
Opening Keynote: What is Up with this BS – Being Safe? Eldeen Pozniak,Pozniak Safety Associates Inc.
Cascades Ballrooms 1 & 2
9:45 – 10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:30am
Session 1A
WorkSafeBC is Here. Now What?
Morris Benetton, WorkSafeBC
Mackie Room
10:15 – 11:30 am
Session 1B
Communicating With Difficult People
Eldeen Pozniak, Pozniak Safety Associates Inc.
Cascades Ballroom #1
10:15 – 11:30am
Session 1C
Workplace Safety Inspections
Norm Ralph, Apex Abilities
Cascades Ballroom #2
11:30 – 1:00pm
On Own For Lunch – Lunch tickets available from the hotel from $8.50 – $16.00
1:00 – 2:30pm
Session 2A
Slips, Trips, and Falls: One of the Most Common Causes of Workplace Injuries
Isabel Krueger, Safety Matters
Mackie Room
1:00 – 2:30pm
Session 2B
Building Blocks to Psychological Safety
Jennifer Irwin, WorkSafeBC
Cascades Ballroom #1
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Session 2C
Incident Investigations for the Safety Committee
Bruce Jackson, Advocate Workplace Safety Services
Cascades Ballroom #2
2:30 – 2:50 pm
Coffee Break
2:50 – 4:00pm
Session 3A
Effective Safety Committees – Fact or Fiction?
Cathy Cook, Safe Harbour Consulting
Mackie Room
2:50 – 4:00pm
Session 3B
Hazard ID and Risk Assessments
Richard Dulong, Northern Sun Safety Inc.
Cascades Ballroom #1
2:50 – 4:00 pm
Session 3C
First Aid Regulations are Changing – Does Your Safety Committee Know What it Needs to Know?
Sukh Salh, St. John Ambulance
Cascades Ballroom #2
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Certificate Pickup
Conference Registration Desk
Optional Post Event Courses
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8:30am – 4:30pm
Course PC-1
Fundamentals for Joint Health and Safety Committees
Innes Room
8:30am – 4:30pm
Course PC-2
Incident/Accident Investigations Course
Mackie Room
Please Note: All sessions, speakers, events, times and descriptions are subject to change without notice. Pacific Safety Center Ltd reserves the right to limit quantities and to correct errors or omissions. For the latest information and updates please check the home page.
OPENING
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Master of Ceremonies: Norm Ralph
At times everyone questions why we do safety, how we do safety,… and this session focuses on the structure and culture needed within a responsibility and accountability based system. This session shares Eldeen’s experiences, her thoughts and wisdom built up over years of caring about the safety of others, working with organizations and individuals to help us explore our definitions and identify some concepts that we can focus on to have the biggest effect,….. with a few laughs along the way.
What is your role as the designated representative when WorkSafeBC arrives at your worksite? What is the role of the owner, manager, supervisor and safety committee? What can you expect during their site inspection? What are the most common problems they find, and how can you correct them? Attend this session to get answers to all of this and more!
Presenter: Morris Benetton, WorkSafeBC
Committee members, supervisors, and us as individuals often get frustrated – not with our roles so much as the personalities they have to work with. Sometimes the challenge is communicating with the varying degrees of knowledge and interpersonal strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes the challenge is handling the apathy of groups of workers or supervisors; sometimes its dealing with the outrage of individuals about hazards. But often it’s just difficult people,… Mr. know-it-all,… Mr Tantrum,… Ms. Whiner,,,, Mr. You-can’t-tell-me-what-to-do. What if people perceive you as the difficult one? We will explore scenarios of people like this and give some insight on how to address them – allowing us to communicate effectively.
Presenter: Eldeen Pozniak, Pozniak Safety Associates Inc.
Looking for tips on how to conduct your safety inspections? Trying to get more participation or response from the people in your workplace/ This is the session for you. Hear how to plan and conduct successful safety inspections, rate hazards and get advice on implementation. This is a great session for safety committees, supervisors or anyone responsible for safety inspections in the workplace
Presenter: Norm Ralph, Apex Abilities
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Slips, trips and falls are one of the most common reasons for worker injuries. Find out why these incidents occur, discover the underlying causes that often get missed during the investigation process, and hear about preventative measures to stop them.
Presenter: Isabel Krueger, Safety Matters
Come and hear about WorkSafeBC Mental Health Strategies. The speaker will aim to break down key concepts into practical examples focused on prevention to help create psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.
Presenter: Jennifer Irwin, WorkSafeBC
This session is designed to strengthen your current skill set in a very important area of health and safety management. It will cover the key aspects of the investigation process, including the initial activities at the incident scene, collecting information, interviewing witnesses, identifying causal factors, and making recommendations for corrective actions that are both effective and sustainable.
Presenter: Bruce Jackson, PgCert, DipAEd, PID, CMIOSH, CRSP, CIT Advocate Workplace Safety Services
Have you ever gotten up in the morning and thought, “Ugh. It’s Safety Committee Meeting day. I don’t want to go to work.” You aren’t alone! Many committees don’t know what their responsibilities are, let alone how to accomplish all of them. And if your committee is dysfunctional, the challenges are even greater. In this short session we will explore why committees fail to succeed, and discover how you can make your committee more effective in improving health and safety in the workplace. Yes! It is possible!
Presenter: Cathy Cook, Safe Harbour Consulting
A key role for safety committees is to understand and contribute to their company’s hazard assessment process. Committee members should know how to identify hazards and properly assess and rate the risks associated with those hazards. This way they can feel comfortable knowing the most serious ones can be dealt with first. Most safety committees have little if any education or training to help them in this critical task. Come learn how to identify hazards and assess the risks associated with them so you can put this skill set into practice at your workplace right away.
Presenter: Richard Dulong, Northern Sun Safety Inc.
BC’s First Aid regulations are changing significantly on Nov 1, 2024. Does your safety committee know and understand the changes? Are there things it should be doing or advising management to do? What, if any, responsibilities do you and your committee have in first aid? Come to this informative session and bring your questions to get answers.
Presenter: Sukh Salh, Director of Business Development and Branch Operations, St. John Ambulance
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Course PC-1
Fundamentals of Joint Health and Safety Committees Course
This course is ideal for new safety committee members needing to comply with WorkSafeBC’s Safety Committee Member training regulations as well as existing members looking to upgrade their safety knowledge and skills. If your organization is setting up its first safety committee or looking to make its existing committee more effective, this one day course is just what you need.
Topics include: applying the process of safety inspections and accident investigations, participating in constructive committee meetings, helping your committee work together and much more.
Fees:
275.00 (Early Bird – register by Sept. 24, 2024)
295.00 (after Sept. 24, 2024)
GST extra
Course PC-2 Mackie Room
Incident/Accident Investigations Course
Great course for safety committee members, supervisors or anyone who is required to conduct and/or review accidents and incidents in the workplace. It will help you to effectively investigate accidents with the objective of reducing or preventing future accidents.
295.00 (Early Bird – register by Sept. 24, 2024)
345.00 (after Sept. 24, 2024)
