Provincial Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee. There shall be established a joint committee composed of five representatives of the Employer and five representatives of the Union, which shall meet on a quarterly basis. Employees shall be on leave of absence without loss of basic pay for time spent on this committee. The Committee's responsibilities will be: (a) To review reports on matters referred by Occupational Health and Safety Committees or by ministry Joint Committees and make recommendations to the Bargaining Principals regarding occupational health and safety matters; (b) To monitor and assess results of the Training Program for Occupational Health and Safety Committee members; (c) To review ministry and employer policies regarding the approval for ergonomic equipment; (d) To make recommendations on appropriate recognition events to mark the April 28th National Day of Mourning to honour workers killed or injured on the job; (e) To make recommendations on corporate critical incident stress management best practices, recognizing that some ministries have effective critical incident stress debriefing management programs in place currently; (f) To make recommendations to the Principals and to ministries on matters covered under Part 4 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, under WorkSafeBC that pertain to Work Area Requirements, Indoor Air Quality, Illumination, Occupational Environment Requirements.
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Provincial Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee. There shall be established a joint committee composed of five representatives of the Employer and five representatives of the Union, which shall meet on a quarterly basis. Employees shall be on leave of absence without loss of basic pay for time spent on this committee. The Committee's responsibilities will be:
(a) To review reports on matters referred by Occupational Health and Safety Committees or by ministry Joint Committees and make recommendations to the Bargaining Principals regarding occupational health and safety matters;
(b) To monitor and assess results of the Training Program for Occupational Health and Safety Committee members;
(c) To review ministry and employer policies regarding the approval for ergonomic equipment;
(d) To make recommendations on appropriate recognition events to mark xxxx the April 28th National Day of Mourning to honour workers killed or injured on the job;
(e) To make recommendations on corporate critical incident stress management best practices, recognizing that some ministries have effective critical incident stress debriefing management programs in place currently;
(f) To make recommendations to the Principals and to ministries on matters covered under Part 4 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, under WorkSafeBC that pertain to Work Area Requirements, Indoor Air Quality, Illumination, Occupational Environment Requirements.
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