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.
OPERATIONAL LEVEL
PROVINCIAL LEVEL
Ministry of Health and SWITCH BC
- Provide system-wide oversight and coordination to support safe and healthy workplaces
- Set provincial policies and standards
- Develop provincial resources to support HSMS Framework, including standards, adoption, and implementation
Health authorities, affiliates, and other health organizations
- Integrate and adopt HSMS
- Allocate resources to support implementation
- Support data collection to drive improvement
- Align organizational policies with provincial standards and HSMS Framework

- Establish clear HSMS governance and stewardship
- Define leadership, employee and physician roles and accountabilities for HSMS
- Promote awareness of HSMS

- 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

- 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

- Review, summarize and analyze organizational hazards, risks, and opportunities
- Develop appropriate action plans
- Implement hazard controls

- 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

- Implement priority programs and standards based on system data
- Support and implement training
- Implement risk management control strategies

- Confirm priority targets and mechanisms to monitor, measure, and audit HSMS performance
- Collaborate to address gaps and opportunities based on reported data

- Establish, implement, and maintain processes for local evaluation of HSMS
- Support investigations and corrective actions
- Ensure timely reporting on HSMS performance