About Health & Safety
At Selkirk College, we believe in providing employees with a healthy and safe workplace by committing to adopting best practices and ensuring our operations are carried out in a way that minimizes risks, prevents injury and promotes the health and safety of everyone on our college grounds.
A successful health and safety program requires the cooperation and conscious effort by everyone, every day, making it crucial for all staff, students, contractors and visitors to comply with Selkirk College policies and procedures, legislative standards and regulations while on our campuses. Read our Employee Health and Safety Handbook.
Your Health and Safety department promotes a safe and healthy workplace on all Selkirk College campuses by providing some of the following initiatives:
- Work Incidents - First Aid & Reporting - Find out who is trained in First Aid on your campus, their hours as well as what to do when an incident happens.
- Communicable Disease Prevention - We can all take steps to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and help keep our community healthy.
- Drug Overdose Awareness - Key individuals have been trained in the use of Naloxone.
- Emergency Preparedness - Facilitating annual drills and administering emergency response programs.
- Ergonomics - This plays an important role in our safety and well-being.
- Health and Safety Orientation - All employees must be given a health and safety orientation.
- Joint Occupational Health and Safety - The JOHS committee is responsible for identifying and recommending solutions to problems.
- Local Informative Resources - Informative local resources for updates on your community.
- Security at Selkirk - Safety and security while on campus is important to us, check out the hours.
- Training - Health and safety orientation, training, instruction and direction specific to their workplace and tasks.
- Working Alone or in Isolation - Staff and faculty may engage in activities that require them to work alone, certain circumstances, situations, or environments can be unsafe and require special arrangements to minimize potential situations and hazards.
For any questions, concerns, or further information, please contact Health & Safety by email or in person at the Valhalla Building on the Castlegar Campus.