OHS Advisor - Various locations

• Overview Are you passionate about creating safer work environments and promoting health and safety best practices? As an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Advisor, you'll play a role in enhancing OHS in workplaces across British Columbia. Your expertise will support Prevention Services and various internal stakeholders by promoting and driving cultural change with workers and employers through educational, consultative, and inspection related activities. Join us in our mission to improve workplace health and safety, compliance, and to cultivate sustainable systems that effectively control risks. Together, we can make a difference in the safety and well-being of workers across British Columbia. Apply now and be a part of our dedicated team committed to fostering safer and healthier work environments. How you’ll make a difference: You’ll help ensure B.C. workers go home safely at the end of their workday. At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices based on the operational needs of the position. Locations available:
• Burnaby
• Surrey
• Richmond
• Victoria
• Kelowna What you'll do
• Promote risk reduction, occupational injury and disease prevention, and examine compliance with focused requirements of the WCA and the OHSR.
• Engage with stakeholders to create and implement sustainable OHS practices, build stakeholder capacity and promote safety ownership and culture to positively impact workplace OHS knowledge, abilities, motivations, and behaviours.
• Analyze health and safety risk assessments, conduct educational presentations, consultation activities, and respond to requests for information, both directly to stakeholders and in support of Prevention Officers, OHS Consultants, and Prevention Services overall.
• Collaborate with Prevention Officers and OHS Consultants in planning and conducting education, consultation, inspection, and other related Prevention activities.
• Conduct targeted activities relating to the analysis of various forms of information to assist in planning and conducting employer consultations
• Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking. Is this a good fit for you? Is this a good fit for you? We’re looking for people who can:
• Develop working relationships with stakeholders using strong interpersonal skills
• Be available at irregular business hours Monday to Friday (B shift)
• Travel, as this role requires regular local and overnight travel
• Drive, this position requires an unrestricted BC Driver’s License
• Perform other related duties as assigned Your background and experience
• A Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
• A minimum of 2 years of working experience including 1 year of H&S experience We’ll consider equivalent combinations of education and experience. If you have related H&S experience, we encourage you to apply. Important to know Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada WorkSafeBC’s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy 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.

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