What is JOHSC?
The Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee (JOHSC) is an advisory group consisting of employer and worker representatives working together to improve occupational health and safety in the workplace. The Committee’s role in the workplace includes:
- promoting safe work practices
- assisting in creating a safe and healthy workplace
- recommending actions which will improve the effectiveness of the occupational health and safety program
- promoting compliance with the Workers Compensation Act (WC ACT) and the Occupational Health & Safety Regulation (OHSR), as set by WorkSafeBC.
The LFS JOHSC meets monthly, on the first Thursday of the month at 11am in MCML 350.
You can learn more about the role of the JOHSC at UBC at the Risk Management Services (RMS) website.
Administrator
| Name | Work Area | Phone Number |
| Lewis Fausak | LFS Operations (MCML) | 604-822-4527 |
Employer Representatives
| Name | Work Area | Phone Number |
| Andy Jeffries Co-Chair |
LFS Operations (MCML) | 604-822-3488 |
| Edmund Seow | Learning Centre | 604-822-1936 |
| Lisa Palmer Alternate |
FNH | 604-822-0005 |
Worker Representatives
| Name & Employee Group | Work Area | Phone Number |
| Patrick Leung Co-chair, AAPS |
LFS Operations (FNH) | 604-822-2793 |
| Sylvia Leung AAPS |
Purchasing | 604-822-3454 |
| Baohua Wang Non-Union Tech & Research Assistants |
Research Assistant | 604 822-9866 |
| Deborah Wang CUPE 2950 - alternate |
Financial Processing | 604-822-3891 |
| Borbala Foris Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
UBC Dairy | 604 796-8410 |
| Derek Dee Faculty Association |
Food Science | 604-822-4489 |
| Andy Black Faculty Association |
Applied Biology & Soil Science | 604–822–2730 |
| Barbara Stefanska Faculty Association - alternate |
Human Nutrition | 604–822–2524 |
| Jaylin Melnichuk Farm Workers |
UBC Farm | 604-822-5092 |
| Tim Carter Farm Workers - alternate |
UBC Farm | 604-822-5092 |
Terms of Reference
JOHSC-Terms-of-Reference-October 2022 - updated October 2022
Meeting Minutes
Only the previous 3 months of minutes are can be found HERE. For earlier records, please contact lewis.fausak@ubc.ca.
Welcome to JOHSC! Please read the important information below about your required training and what is expected of you:
- If you are a regular member, you are expected to attend every monthly meeting. If you cannot attend, it is your responsibility to contact your alternate and ask them to attend in your place. You must also inform the co-chair(s) of your absence.
- All JOHSC members (regular and alternates) must take mandatory 8-hour training within 6 months of joining. This training is spilt into two parts:
- JOHSC Fundamentals, Part 1: can be completed online
- JOHSC Fundamentals, Part 2: in-person session, occurs monthly
Click here to view the calendar of upcoming training sessions being offered.
- Once both parts of your training are complete, please notify your co-chairs so that it can be recorded in the next meeting minutes.
All JOHSC members are entitled to an additional 8 hours of annual educational leave, for the purposes of attending occupational health and safety training courses.
An example of an event you can attend is the annual UBC Safety Day.
The employer must provide the educational leave without loss of pay or other benefits and must pay for, or reimburse the worker for, the costs of the training course and the reasonable costs of attending the course.
If you have questions about your educational leave, contact your co-chairs.
