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2024-11-05 Health and Safety Committee Meeting

Date

November 5, 2024

Attendees 

Austin Tokarek, Stephanie Spencer, Meghan Tomlin, Desiree Bulger, Charles Thorne

Agenda

  1. Delegating and rolling out the monthly workplace inspections
  2. Scheduling fire drills for each department/building
  3. MSET - purchase of totes and alarm - approval
  4. Fire near miss - FW_ Near miss fire hazard.pdf
  5. review Terms of reference document: WHSC Terms of Reference - Draft.pdf
  6. create a list of recommendations to present to CAO 

  7. https://www.ccohs.ca/products/courses/hscommittees review quote for training (

    7 people to take the course is $343.00. It takes 40-60 minutes to complete, it is learn at your own pace, and 100% online. )

  8. Review site Inspection notes and actions Sept 11th OH&S Inspection Meeting Minutes.docx
  9. Potential Template for new action tracker? (can add more OH&S Specific details) OHS Meeting_Action Items_Tracker.xlsx
  10. QR code templates OH&S QR codes (BW).pdf

Notes

Federal Inspection Follow-up

  • Malahat is federally regulated - so need to follow Federal directives and regulations
  • Malahat is also insured by WorkSafe BC
  • Not sure what happens after treaty?
  • Infrastructure and Housing - has limited health culture
  • need more non-supervisory people on the Committee

Near Misses and Incident Reports and Monthly Walk Through

  • Narcan training - ensure that cap is used when opening the vial, incident report is created
  • where do incident reports go? Can the OHS committee help manage?
  • Fire Miss - storage near/above/too close to the baseboard heater, each building needs to have reps doing walk through buildings: Linus is building a map
  • consider incentives for near-miss forms (e.g. prize draw)

Action Items

  • find another co-Chair for the OHS meetings
  • get one of Ty's staff to come to next meeting if possible
  • follow up as to why Jeni is not coming to meetings
  • Desiree to ask Rachel where Incident reports are stored - should be in OHS reviews?
  • fix rebar in Electrical shed near Gazebo
  • secure shelving in Environment Building
  • share Linus' map to next meeting
  • get Josh to write a 'Notice to Staff' about H & S 
  • look through Jeni's documents
  • Desiree to ask Rachel for report from Federal Inspection
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