BLUE COLLAR SILVICULTURE GOALS
- Develop a better and more effectively trained workforce
- Build a more engaged and connected Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC)
- Increased communication of safety standards and expectations
- Focus on healthful and responsible camps and worksites
HOW WE WILL ACHIEVE OUR GOALS & HOW SUCCESS IS MEASURED
1. Develop a better and more effectively trained workforce
2. Build a more engaged and connected JHSC
3. Increased communication of safety standards and expectations
4. Focus on healthful and responsible camps and work sites
- pre-season management training extended and enhanced
- increased slow start training – additional training
- emphasize practical and hands on training
- improve driver and ATV operator training and measure with audits and surveys
- 100% planters with completed pre-season training
2. Build a more engaged and connected JHSC
- more pre-season training needed for committee members (result from JHSC evaluation)
- improve camp incident reporting and investigating (result of JHSC evaluation)
- camp committee to make training recommendations to employer (JHSC evaluation) (accomplished through pre-season training and JHSC agenda with Training Recommendations)
- 4 days no camp costs for attending JHSC meetings, schedule breakfast or lunch meetings on days off
- supervisor/project manager will attend meetings to support safety coordinator with decisions/actions
- more detailed agenda sent by Sunshine each month
- better representation from the whole camp
3. Increased communication of safety standards and expectations
- reduce the stigma of doing hazardous work and not reporting unsafe work
- more surveys and feedback systems
- JHSC and Safe People better represented and available as resources
- improved training in policies and procedures
- audit camps to improve consistency
4. Focus on healthful and responsible camps and work sites
- scheduled party nights with safe people and supervisors on duty
- respectful nights off
- socially responsible education/training in camp
- increased training for Safe People and promoting Safe People in camp
- stretching/yoga tents
