Does your Joint Health and Safety Committee drive your organization’s strategy toward its objectives?

Many times, those in the c-suite who look after the organizational strategy overlook the importance of the JHSC and the role it plays in the overall success of a company. It’s not for lack of understanding that the JHSC serves an important purpose in the workplace. It’s usually because the JHSC is viewed as a separate entity, instead of looking at it as a crucial part of the overall organizational strategy, and the ability for the business to meet its objectives. 

To have a positive impact on the organizational strategy, a JHSC must be operating at peak efficiency.  

Peak Efficiency

Having an effective JHSC has numerous benefits, such as:

• Lower injury and illness rates in the workplace, resulting in less lost time
• A more positive safety culture, resulting in proactive safety initiatives and programs
• Happier and healthier workers with better productivity rates

 
Your organization can expect to see a positive impact on the bottom line as a result of reduced lost time, increased productivity, and a happy and healthy workforce.

Impacting the Organizational Strategy

When workers are happy, healthy, and productive, they are more apt to drive the business toward its goal. Having an effective JHSC in place also has a positive impact on your organization’s safety culture, which is invaluable. A positive safety culture helps increase your company’s ability to meet the performance goals and objectives required to be successful industry leaders and increase the bottom line.

Ensure that your JHSC understands your vision, mission, and values, and how they contribute

How to Optimize Organizational Strategy using the JHSC

Successful organizations are always driving and striving to meet goals and objectives. When they succeed, set new targets. Having an effective and efficient JHSC can help your organization meet its objectives. Here’s how: 

• Ensure that your JHSC understands your vision, mission, and values, and how they contribute
• Make your JHSC the safety culture captains, responsible for ensuring that the organization enjoys all of the benefits that come along with having a positive safety culture
• Empower the JHSC by treating them as change agents by always following through on recommendations
• Don’t let the JHSC stagnate; keep them motivated, fresh, and excited

 
When you have a JHSC operating at peak efficiency, you can be sure that they’’ be an active part of what’s driving your organizational strategy toward its objectives…and beyond!

Get Trained

Nothing will make your JHSC more effective and efficient than JHSC training. Having certified members on the JHSC ensures that your organization is compliant and operating properly. However, training all JHSC members is even better. Ensure that all JHSC members get certified. Members who are already certified can benefit from JHSC Refresher training. 

Online JHSC Training Dates

Due to COVID-19, we have suspended all classroom training until further notice. MidSouthWest Training and Consulting, in coordination with the CPO, is making JHSC training accessible through a Web Based classroom (Zoom).

Online JHSC Training Dates

Trust MidSouthWest Training and Consulting 

MidSouthWest Training and Consulting provides JHSC training in association with Langlois Safety Training and Consulting Services, an approved CPO Provider. We offer in-house and on-site JHSC Part One, Part Two, and Refresher training. You can trust MidSouthWest Training and Consulting to provide you with cost-effective training solutions tailored to meet your organization’s unique health and safety needs.
 
To ask questions about how to make this year your JHSC’s most effective year yet, contact us online or call 289.309.1143. Visit us 24/7 on the web at midsouthwest.ca.

​Last updated April 29, 2020