What is COR?
Can an employer achieve COR with less than 12 months documentation?
What is a SECOR?
A SECOR is issued to an employer whose health and safety management system meets the Partnerships standard. An effective system can support due diligence by the employer and result in reducing the social and financial costs of workplace injury and illness.
What is an audit?
Can a small employer achieve SECOR with less than 12 months documentation?
What is a health and safety management system?
What are the steps of obtaining a COR?
Step 2 : Get Trained
Step 3 : Implement Health & Safety Program
Step 4 : Get Audited
Step 5 : COR/SECOR Certified
What are the benefits of COR/SECOR?
- By achieving COR, employers are able to demonstrate that their health and safety management system has been developed, implemented, and evaluated on an annual basis through comprehensive internal and external audits.
- Audits will typically include interviews, documentation review, and observation techniques to evaluate how well the employer is able to identify, assess, and control risks to workers.
- The audit criteria used by COR are recognized by industries throughout Canada. Your company will be part of a nationwide network participating in and promoting health and safety excellence.
- In a situation where you must demonstrate that you have an active health and safety management system, participation in COR is an asset.
- Providing immediate proof that you have an effective health and safety management system in place will give your organization a competitive advantage, possibly allowing you to qualify ahead of others for certain jobs.
- Protecting the health and safety of all workers at all times is the right thing to do. Effective development and maintenance of a health and safety management system is a proactive approach to eliminating workplace injuries and illnesses.
- A firm’s corporate image and reputation will be enhanced within industry and community.
- Commitment to a strong culture of safety will attract safety-conscious workers, drive employee morale and engagement.
How much does it cost to participate?
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What is conflict of interest for an auditor?
Internal Auditor Certification and Training
As an option for maintenance audits you can train someone internally to complete the maintenance audit instead of hiring an External Auditor every year.
If your company would like to train an employee to be become an Internal Auditor to perform your maintenance audits you will need to have them complete the following training.
- Module 1 – Guide to Develop an Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- 2 day Live Webinar or Online training session
- Pre-Requisite to Module 12
- Module 12 – Internal Auditor Training
- 4 day Live Webinar
Upon completion of the training the participant has 6 months to complete an audit to achieve their Internal Auditor Certification (this audit can also serve as the companies maintenance audit once it has completed the QA process). If you wish to register, go to https://www.aasp.ca/aasp-calendar/ and choose the Module 12 – Auditor Training course that you would like to attend and complete the online registration.