Join The Peer-to-Peer Initiative
The Steering Committee of the BC Safety Charter is pleased to announce a new initiative for 2015 designed to help Charter members share best practices and learn from one another on major health and safety issues.
This new Peer-to-Peer initiative will focus on those responsible at each organization for supervising/managing health and safety issues.
Working groups of representatives from six organizations will be formed in order to conduct monthly meetings between peers. The meetings will be hosted by members of the group at each other’s facilities and will include a plant tour followed by a one-hour round table style meeting to discuss health and safety issues.
Topics will be suggested and chosen by the groups themselves and each host will be responsible for arranging and coordinating the meetings and filing a brief report on the discussion within a week.
Once six individuals have expressed an interest, FIOSA-MIOSA will arrange a conference call to introduce everyone in the group and work out a plan to proceed with the monthly meetings. In order to be cost-effective we will endeavour to take geographic proximity into account when organizing the groups.
In order to facilitate these Peer-to-Peer meetings, resources will be required and each member company will be asked to pay $95 per month. Payment can be made monthly or quarterly and companies can be invoiced or pay by credit card.
“We are sure that committed Safety Charter members will recognize this initiative as an invaluable investment for their people to enhance their knowledge, resources and qualifications in ways which will contribute to the sustainability and success of their businesses,” says Ben Hume, Chair of the Charter Steering Committee.
The Peer-to-Peer sessions are set to launch in January of 2015. Interested members should have their safety personnel reserve a space by emailing Neetu Khera at FIOSA-MIOSA.
Note: One of the first topics to be discussed will be the re-launch of the KPI Index. The KPI Index is the tool developed by FIOSA-MIOSA which allows you to quickly establish your current health and safety situation and chart your progress over time.
The KPI Index allows you to parts of your safety management system which are working well and focus on those which need improvement.
