Committee Meetings

Have you been having difficulty ensuring jobsite health and safety committee meetings take place regularly? Many contractors realize a large part of health and safety is having the proper documentation in place. This is very true for health and safety committee meetings. Health and safety committees and duties of the workplace parties (OHSA Part 3) are at the core of the internal responsibility system (IRS). Meetings are the forum where the health and safety issues and the responsibilities of the parties should be addressed.

Does your project have more than 20 workers for more than 3 months? If yes, you should be holding regular health and safety meetings with your sub contractors.

We can help facilitate your meetings.

This service is usually used in conjunction with site inspections to ensure a continuity of the safety program and issues. Upon performing a site inspection, (approx. every 2-4 weeks) the health and safety committee meeting usually takes place after the site inspection. The meeting agenda is typically as follows, last meetings minutes are reviewed, any safety issues which became apparent as a result of the preceding site inspection will be discussed. And any parties are all given an opportunity to express any safety concerns and recommendations. Minutes are prepared and returned to project management for distribution. Immediately following the meeting site supervision must address and follow up on any dangerous circumstances.

For construction projects with more than 50 workers for a duration of more than 3 months. The OHSA requires the constructor to establish a joint health and safety committee in which there must be at least 2 WSIB certified members, one management and one worker. We can act as the management representative if you do not currently have one.