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Why, Why, Why?
Let’s look at a few aspects of auditors and the audit process. Why is there a pool of certified external auditors at each certifying partner? It boils down to standards, accountability, and...
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This Blog is About You
Are you managing your own health? Now, the COR audit comes at your health and safety from one perspective, asking questions like: Does the company have a MSD Prevention Program in place measuring and...
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Pages and Pages
Thinking about going for COR? Just heard about the COR program? You probably have a bunch of questions and not too many answers. Where could a person get a general backgrounder and maybe discover some...
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Magnum Opus?
You’ve navigated to the SafetyDriven website, clicked the COR tab, and are now entranced by the COR landing page. Your eyes well up with tears. There’s so much COR goodness it’s hard to decide what to...
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Safety + Fun = NAOSH Event
I was recently invited to watch one of the NAOSH week activities at ColdLogic, one of SafetyDriven – TSCBC’s COR certified large employers. The event was a relay event pitting four teams of five to...
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The Cheque is in the Mail!
If you work at a company that has recently achieved COR certification, you will receive a paper COR certificate in the mail. Typically, the certificate arrives two to four weeks after the certifying...
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What Standard Is Your Company Meeting?
The COR audit is a voluntary standard. Achieving COR certification indicates that a company’s Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) is functioning at a level sufficient to pass the COR audit....
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Small Employer Internal Auditor Training
Small Employer Internal Auditor Training Why don’t we advertise Small Employer Internal Auditor training courses? Here at SafetyDriven – TSCBC we understand it may not be practical to send an employee...
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Distractions May Cause a Lapse in Certification
Distractions May Cause a Lapse in Certification Our general blog theme this week is distractions. Now I ruminated for a while and determined that I couldn’t come up with a whole lot of specific...
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In The Zone
Does your organization have safe work procedures in place for pedestrians working around mobile equipment? What if we tweak that COR Audit question a bit? Does your organization have safe work...
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When is an appropriate time to carry out an audit?
Although El Nino has made it feel like summer for a significant portion of the spring, Monday, June 20 is the first day of summer. Ahh… The ebb and flow of the seasons. Holidays are just around the...
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New and Improved
Have you noticed anything different lately? Something changed. It was big. And sudden. What could it have been? Wait for it… Wait for it… BLAM! WorkSafeBC launched their new website. If you’ve visited...
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This blog is about you!
Are you managing your own health? Now, the COR audit comes at your health and safety from one perspective, asking questions like: Does the company have a MSD Prevention Program in place measuring and...
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Along the Way to COR
Is your company interested in achieving COR certification? Part of the journey to COR certification includes training one or more employees as internal auditor(s). If your company is a small employer,...
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Maintaining Standards
Recently, the global economy has been a bit of a bear. Canada has been hit pretty hard by low oil prices and the downswing in the commodity super cycle. Many industries have been forced to downsize....
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The Machine
Did you ever wonder what happens to your audit when it goes for QA? Where does it go? Who looks at it? What’s the process? What does QA even stand for? That’s a lot of questions, let’s start here… In...
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Are You Ready for COR?
Last week we looked at motivations for achieving COR certification. Now let’s look at company readiness. Company safety program maturity (readiness) can be broken down into three main categories: The...
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Who Checks on the Checkers?
Recently we reviewed the audit quality assurance process for COR audits submitted to SafetyDriven-TSCBC. While reading that blog you may have had the thought “Who checks on the checkers”? Hmm… There...
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The Journey…
Hey! Psst! Yah, you over there. You’ve been loitering around this blog site long enough. Have we got something for you. Do you want to be an internal auditor? Don’t answer that. We can tell, you need...
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What are the benefits of attaining COR certification? Here is a typical list of some of the main benefits: • Incentive payment of up to 10% of the employers base rate • Pre-qualification to work for...
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