COR™ Programs
COR™ Programs
COR™ Program
The Certificate of Recognition (COR™) Program is an occupational health and safety certification program for all Yukon employers. The program is designed to:
- assist companies in the development and maintenance of a company-wide safety program
- introduce standardized training
- monitor the safety program through annual audits
Specifically, the COR™ Program helps employers understand the OH&S Act and Regulations, and employer and worker rights and responsibilities. This will help firms avoid liability and ensure due diligence. Through participation in the program, employers and employees will come to recognize that injury prevention must be an integral part of their business conduct and daily working routine.
The COR™ program is a partnership between the Northern Safety Network Yukon (NSNY) and the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB). The program is administered by the Northern Safety Network Yukon and available to all Yukon employers, from owner/operators to large corporations. Upon completion of the program requirements, a certificate of recognition is issued jointly by the NSNY and the YWCHSB.
Please note: If you already have COR™ Certification from another province, click here for more information.
Certificate of Recognition (COR™) Process
The process to obtain a Certificate of Recognition for companies with ten or more employees is:
STEP 1
Register in the program by filling in the COR™ registration form (PDF) and emailing or faxing it back to the NSNY.
STEP 2
Have at least one full-time Yukon based employee complete the following core courses:
- Principles of Health & Safety Management (PHSM) - A one-day course designed to help the company develop and implement a health & safety program.
- Leadership for Safety Excellence (LSE) - A two-day course designed to help the supervisor understand their health & safety roles and responsibilities. The course covers legislation, inspections, investigations and training (safety meetings, etc.).
- Internal Auditor Training - A two-day course designed to help the person responsible for health & safety understand how to measure the effectiveness of the program within the company. NOTE: for certification as a NSNY auditor, a self-audit must be submitted within six months of completing the two-day audit course.
- WHMIS Train-the-trainer course - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS). Once the course is successfully completed, the participant can provide WHMIS training to other workers within the company.
The above courses require six days of training. The same person is not required to take all the courses; however, the auditor must complete PHSM and Auditor training.
Effective Jan 1, 2012
Have the majority of full-time supervisors complete the following core course:
- Leadership for Safety Excellence (LSE) - A two-day course designed to help the supervisor understand their health & safety roles and responsibilities. The course covers legislation, inspections, investigations and training (safety meetings, etc.).
A supervisor is anyone who directs work activities over others, and may include workers who self delegate on a daily basis for example working alone.
STEP 3
On completion of the required training, you will develop and implement your company safety program. Once you feel your safety program is ready, the person that took the auditor training must complete and submit an internal audit to the NSNY.
The NSNY reviews the audit, and if accepted the auditor will be confirmed as a certified internal auditor. Once the internal auditor is certified, the company can request an external audit.
Arrangements for the audit, from notification date, could take from two to four weeks to arrange depending on audit load, availability of auditors within the industry, construction season activities, etc.
STEP 4
The external audit should take approximately 2 to 5 days to complete, for a company with up to 30 employees, depending on location of the active work site(s) in relation to Whitehorse. Once the audit is completed and the close out meeting (between the auditor and the company) has been held, the audit document must be forwarded by the company to the NSNY for review. This process should take less than ten days to complete, barring any unforeseen errors and/or omissions in the audit.
STEP 5
The NSNY forwards a request for certification to the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board for issuance of the Certificate of Recognition. The whole process for audit review could take up to four weeks to complete.
