What is a Joint Health and Safety Committee? 

A Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) is composed of worker and employer representatives. This co-operative involvement ensures that everything possible is done to identify and eliminate or mitigate workplace health and safety hazards. Together, they should be mutually committed to improving health and safety conditions in the workplace.

Committees identify potential health and safety issues and bring them to the employer's attention and must be kept informed of health and safety developments in the workplace by the employer. As well, a designated worker member of the committee inspects the workplace at least once a month.

What is the joint health and safety committee's role?

The committee is an advisory body that helps to stimulate or raise awareness of health and safety issues in the workplace, recognizes and identifies workplace risks and develops recommendations for the employer to address these risks. To achieve its goal, the committee holds regular meetings and conducts regular workplace inspections and makes written recommendations to the employer for the improvement of the health and safety of workers.

What you do (Responsibilities):

• Attend monthly JHSC meetings, other meetings and training sessions
• Conduct inspections of the workplace
• Encourage and support the Internal Responsibility System for effectively raising and resolving concerns, questions or issues
• Influence and support a positive health & safety culture
• Liaise with government officials such as Ministry of Labour (MOL) if required
• Assist employees with resolving issues
• Communicate back to the workers what you learned in the meetings
• Be available to other workers as someone they can speak to openly and confidentially
• When appropriate, share information and experience about health & safety issues with employees

Who you are (Qualifications):

Required:

• Current employee at 70 The East Mall in the Gifts department
• Effectively manage conflict and difficult conversations
• Able to contribute to the betterment of Lush’s Health and Safety policies, procedures and programs
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Google Docs/Sheets, and Gmail
• Reliable, consistent attendance, punctual and dependable

Preferred:

• Familiar with Occupational Health and Safety legislation
• Experience in a leadership capacity
• Certification (Part 1 & Part 2) Ministry of Labour (MOL) Standards
• Previous experience in a Joint Health and Safety Committee
• Able to work either morning or afternoon shifts

How to Apply: Submit an application on the Colleague Center Internal Job Board

Questions? Email us at: [email protected] 

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