About the position

The Lillooet Tribal Council (LTC) is seeking Expressions of Interest from qualified individuals to undertake a 6–9-month project to implement measures related to incident reporting and investigation, hazard reporting and investigation, new and young worker orientation, the Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee, workplace violence prevention, working alone procedures, and emergency response management. The consultant will join the LTC Joint Occupational Safety & Health Committee (JOSH) as a management representative and collaborate with other JOSH management representatives, the LTC Administrator, and the JOSH worker representatives to fill the gaps identified in the safety audit. This is a part-time position (1-2 days per week) over 25-35 weeks. The project requires working closely with a variety of LTC staff to develop policies, procedures, and templates. The LTC is somewhat flexible concerning how the consultant fulfills these duties.

Responsibilities

• Clarify specific roles and responsibilities in LTC policies so they clearly identify who is responsible for what in specific situations.
• Clarify reporting procedures, incident classifications (e.g., first aid, near miss, property damage), and documentation requirements.
• Develop a formal incident investigation process, including standardized tools (e.g. investigation templates) and supervisor training in investigation(s), including techniques such as “root cause analysis”.
• Develop a formal process for conducting hazard assessments of various work tasks across all LTC facilities, including: driving, encounters with wildlife, working near water, working alone, working from home, assessment templates, clarify who is responsible for conducting hazard assessments and implementing appropriate controls, use the results of hazard assessments to develop safe work practices and procedures for known job tasks.
• Review current Work From Home (WFH) procedures to ensure they are being followed and they are adequate to support the health and safety of WFH employees.
• Review the JOSH Committee Terms of Reference and recommend revisions as needed.
• Ensure JOSH meetings are held monthly and minutes are posted for all LTC to access.
• Compile copies of all JOSH member’s training certificates in a central file.
• Update the New and Young Worker Orientation to include and reflect the work done in this workplan. For example, include existing workplan hazard assessments, investigation procedures, and incident reporting procedures.
• Review and strengthen the processes whereby LTC employees are informed on a timely basis about the health and safety requirements in existing and new policies, and the implementation of existing requirements is monitored and enforced.
• Develop a procedure to ensure the risk assessments referenced in the LTC Workplace Violence & Harassment Policy and the Fieldwork Guidelines are being completed and controls are put in place to mitigate identified risks.
• Develop procedures to compile and store risk assessments and are being incorporated into new & young Worker orientations.
• Review access controls for each LTC facility and present recommendations to the LTC Program Managers Meeting for consideration.
• Enhance existing policies and procedures by defining key elements of risk control, such as required check-in/check-out frequencies for working alone.
• Review the current LTC Fire Safety Plan and add prescriptive responses as needed.
• Develop Fire Safety Plans for the other LTC facilities that do not currently have such plans.

Requirements

• Qualified individuals to undertake a 6–9-month project
• Join the LTC JOHSC as a management representative
• Collaborate with the other JOHSC management representative, the LTC Administrator, and the JOHSC worker representatives
• Develop policies, procedures, and templates

Nice-to-haves

• Preference will be given to applicants of St’át’imc or Aboriginal ancestry