BC HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (HSMS)
A health and safety management system (HSMS) is a set of plans, actions, and systems to support the creation of a culture of safety. SWITCH BC will play a lead role in collaborating and supporting HSMS in alignment with Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standards to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of anyone working in the healthcare sector. An effective health and safety management system helps organizations provide safe and healthy workplaces, prevent work related injury, and continually improve on occupational health and safety performance.
LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT
Provincial Level
Establish clear HSMS governance and stewardship
Define leadership, employee and physician roles and accountabilities for HSMS
Promote awareness of HSMS
LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT
Operational Level
Communicate HSMS Framework and objectives assign HSMS roles across organization
Offer leadership, physician, employee training
Establish and maintain OHS policies and JOHS committees
Provide mechanisms for worker consultation and participation
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Provincial Level
Identify and share effective leading practices and objectives in hazard evaluation
Coordinate provincial Hazard incident and tracking
Identify and assess emerging provincial hazards, risks, and opportunities
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Operational Level
Review, summarize and analyze organizational hazards, risks, and opportunities
Develop appropriate action plans
Implement hazard controls
RISK MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
Provincial Level
Identify priority programs and standards informed by system data, best practice, and system excellence
Support provincial training using competency-based learning
Develop risk control strategies
Collaborate with organizations to identify and understand safety and risk profiles
RISK MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
Operational Level
Implement priority programs and standards based on system data
Support and implement training
Implement risk management control strategies
EVALUATION AND CORRECTIVE ACTION
Provincial Level
Confirm priority targets and mechanisms to monitor, measure, and audit HSMS performance
Collaborate to address gaps and opportunities based on reported data
EVALUATION AND CORRECTIVE ACTION
Operational Level
Establish, implement, and maintain processes for local evaluation of HSMS
Support investigations and corrective actions
Ensure timely reporting on HSMS performance
Strategic Review and Continuous Improvement
Provincial Level
Review HSMS annually, communicate successes and improvement opportunities
Seek and adopt continuous improvements and innovations in health safety management
Integrate identified improvements into HSMS
Strategic Review and Continuous Improvement
Operational Level
Communicate and track organization health, safety, and wellness goals
Assess organization opportunities for continual improvement
Integrate and implement improvements
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