Resources

Safety Animation

Follow our unsafe builder around his day on the jobsite and see why it is important to develop a safety buddy system on your worksite. Never pass an unsafe act without doing something to fix it. Safety is everyone's responsibility! Watch the video below.

WorkSafeBC Base Rates for 2010

Click here to see WorkSafeBC's construction industry base rates for 2010.

H1N1 Flu Virus

What you need to know as an employer

The CSN is dedicated to construction safety and as forecasts indicate there may be a resurgence in the H1N1 flu virus the CSN wants to make sure your workers health and safety is protected.

Public health authorities advise you to continue your regular activities, but if you display flu-like symptoms stay home until they resolve. This could take seven to 10 days. Limit contact with others to keep from infecting them. If you are concerned or have any questions (ie. whether you should seek medical attention) please call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1.

For more information and resources on prevention and treatment visit the Public Health Agency of Canada website http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/swine-porcine/faq_rg_swine-eng.php and the Canadian Red Cross website http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=31458&tid=001.

For additional information on precautions you can take visit Fight Flu at http://www.fightflu.ca/index-eng.html or Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) at http://www.iapa.ca/Main/documents/pdf/2005_faq_avian_influenza.pdf

Legislation and OH&S

Learn more about workplace liability and what you can do to create an effective safety program for your organization by reviewing the OH&S and Bill C-45 legislation online at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

Safety Tools

Worksite Safety - Field Booklet

Near miss incidents cause a potential for reoccurrences in short term and create a non-compliance culture in the long term. To encourage reporting of near misses and promote a positive safety culture on the worksite, the CSN in collaboration with industry have created the Worksite Safety - Field Booklet.

The above pdf document can be provided to a printer of your choosing to have field booklets created for distribution to all your workers. To customize these booklets you can download the word version of this booklet here. The purpose of this two-sided field booklet is to prompt the proactive participation of workers in reporting near misses and provide encouragement for positive safety actions by workers.

The booklets should have a hard back so the pages are easily filled out by workers during their workday, and tear away pages that can be pulled out and forwarded to supervisors or safety personnel. A safety feedback box should be provided on-site so that workers can anonymously submit their forms daily.

By reviewing the filled forms, the supervisor and safety personnel can follow the patterns of compliance and map out areas for improvement. It also provides successful methods of promoting safety using the examples of the acts of excellence done by workers.

To encourage and promote use of these forms by workers, companies and/or safety managers may want to provide a weekly prize draw for all the reports received each week. This also provides recognition for positive safety related acts. If you have questions about the use of this resource please feel free to contact us at info@safetynetwork.bc.ca.

---

Job Demands Analysis - The Construction Safety Network, along with the construction industry, has developed Job Demands Analysis documents

Newsletters

The Link newsletter - the CSN's exclusive newsletter with tips and information for the construction industry

Point to Point newsletter - a newsletter with tips and information for Traffic Control Instructors and industry

News Releases

Click here to read the CSN's latest news release

Forms

Forms - a listing of the various CSN forms that are available on our website