Working Alone or in Isolation
Please find our Actsafe Working Alone or in Isolation Checklist form and fact sheet below:
Checklist: Working Alone or in Isolation Checklist PDF
Please find our Actsafe Working Alone or in Isolation Checklist form and fact sheet below:
Checklist: Working Alone or in Isolation Checklist PDF
This WorkSafeBC booklet discusses general information about WHMIS 2015:
To read the full document on WorkSafeBC’s website, and to print, click here (2.30 MB).
These guidelines are intended to give recommendations on the safe handling, use and storage of rearms. Firearms include prop guns, rubber guns, plastic guns, non-guns, flintlock guns, pistols, machine guns, rifles and shotguns that shoot blank ammunition.
The Property Manager (or, in his/her absence, the weapons handler and/or other appropriate personnel determined by the locality or the needs of the production) will be the individual acting in the interest of the Production Company for obtaining, maintaining and handling all rearms for the production. He/she will work in conjunction with the company’s designated Safety Representative to assure that the following standards are adhered to.
Click here to download the guideline
The following procedures are recommended for all water work, including, but not limited to: ponds, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, oceans, pools, and tanks, or any other unduly wet work environment.
Volunteers in the arts sector can take on roles from office administration, production and catering to planning and running events. In any of these cases, there is potential for accidents and injuries to occur: when health and safety aren’t considered and planned for, these risks may be even greater.
This four-page booklet, developed by Actsafe, will help you maintain a safe environment for volunteers as well as protecting against any liabilities.
When B.C. officially shifts into winter driving, take a look at these resources to ensure the safety of yourself and your workers in these conditions.
Road Safety At Work Links:
Shift Into Winter – Shift into Winter’s portal of online courses provides practical, easy-to-use learning to help you improve road safety in your workplace, including creating a driving safety program, understanding employer road safety obligations, hazard identification, risk assessment, and more.
Assess your road safety program – This short survey from Road Safety at Work and WorkSafeBC will help you evaluate and benchmark your road safety program.
Your guide to winter tires – Shift into Winter’s guide includes winter tire specs, knowing the road signs, minimum legal requirements, stopping distances, winter tire myths, tips on using and buying winter tires, driving in difficult conditions, and more.
12 Factors That Influence Poor Driving Decisions – These factors are sometimes called the Dirty Dozen and include fatigue, complacency, and distraction. Developing successful ways to identify these hazards and creating strategies to prevent them is critical to helping your employees be safer when they drive for work.
New incident and investigation tools now available – When a work-related crash happens, it’s important for your organization to learn why it happened, so it can be prevented from happening again. Use this new tool kit which includes a step-by-step process to follow, as well as forms, checklists, diagrams, sketches and helpful links.
Circle of Safety
– Start vehicle, turn on headlights and left turn signal. Walk clockwise around vehicle and check:
– Look for damage on any part of the vehicle and report it BEFORE driving.
– Check clearances to side, front, back and above and watch for obstacles such as pillars, poles or other vehicles or equipment.
– After arriving back at the driver’s door, click your headlights on high beam, change the turn signal and walk to the back and front to check the headlight high beams and right signal.
– If you have backed in near a fence/wall, check your own brake lights by looking for the reflection when you press the pedal, otherwise, get someone to check for you.
Once you have completed your Circle of Safety check, you can re-enter your vehicle and begin your journey!
Checklist:
LIGHTS Do you have adequate lighting in and around your vehicle?
TAILGATES Do you have adequate traction on your tailgate to prevent slips, trips and falls?
MAINTENANCE Are your tires and brakes in good working condition?
WHEELCHOCKS Check our info sheet below for best practices.
Actsafe’s wheel chock Info Sheet explains the best practices regarding the selection and use of wheel chocks to assist in securing parked vehicles from unexpected movement.
WorkSafeBC’s bulletin highlights incidents across multiple industries that occurred when precautions were not taken when working on or around parked vehicles. It also reminds employers of their responsibilities and outlines safe work practices for both employers and drivers.
Vehicles are the second highest source of injury in the motion picture industry over a five-year period (2013 – 2017)*.
Actsafe’s Injury Prevention Week 2018 ‘Back Here, Safety Matters’ will focus on the prevention of injuries caused by material handling around trucks. One phase of this campaign will cover signalling and flagging and we’ve found a great video created by Safety Driven, the Trucking Safety Council of BC, which talks you through safely guiding and spotting a reversing vehicle and provides an overview of the essential things to know when guiding a vehicle that is backing up
We invite you to watch and share this video amongst your communities.
*Data taken from WorkSafeBC’s Industry Safety Information Centre
Use this search tool to help find green services and products for your film or television production here in BC. Tell us where you are looking and what department or product you need, then scroll down within the green box to see the list of search results. This resource can also be found on the Green Production Guide.
In 2009, Mike Rousselle was seriously injured in a workplace accident. In this video, Mike, his wife, and his employer share his difficult and inspiring journey of recovery and return to work.
Actsafe Safety Association would like to acknowledge and honour that our workplace and classrooms are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), and Stz’uminus peoples.
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