Students & Interns
Promote Your Seasonal Jobs to International Mobile Young Workers
Do you have lots of seasonal jobs to fill? Promote your jobs to international youth who have Canadian Working Holiday Visas in hand and are eager to come to BC to travel and work for you!
Useful Tips for Young Workers to Address Workplace Safety Concerns
This WorkSafeBC brochure provides young and new workers with useful tips on addressing concerns about safety in the workplace.
Tools for Training Young and New Workers
WorkSafeBC has developed these tools for employers to meet regulatory requirements for new and young worker orientation and training.
Orientation and Training for Young and New Workers are Essential
More than half of workplace accidents involving young and new workers occur during their first six months on the job. Providing effective orientation and training is the best way to prevent accidents. As an employer, you are responsible for ensuring that your workers are prepared for the job before they start working.
Young and New Workers: Regulations
In this section, you will find the specific Occupational Health and Safety Regulation that governs young and new workers as defined by WorkSafeBC. You will be able to determine the impact of the Regulation — since regulatory guidelines and implementation policies will vary from sector to sector across many industries — by reading through the definitions to see which best suit your particular business. Remember that many of the young and new workers “guidelines” are just that, and do not necessarily meet all the compliance requirements.
Young and New Worker Programs: WorkSafeBC Video Profiles
This series of videos highlights best practices for new and young worker training. There are video profiles for 13 B.C. companies.
Support for Employers: Training and Orientation for Young and New Workers
This infosheet includes definitions, guidelines, and checklists to help ensure you are meeting your requirements for training and orienting young and new workers.
Rights and Responsibilities for New and Young Workers
This online, self-paced program helps young workers, supervisors, and employers learn more about their health and safety rights and responsibilities.
Top 7 Dangers for Young Workers
This WorkSafeBC web page shows the top seven potential dangers for young and new workers, including risks that occur in tourism and hospitality. For each danger, there is a list of prevention resources, including videos, information sheets, posters, and other web pages.
OHS Guidelines for Young and New Worker Orientation and Training
These guidelines clarify the meaning of section 3.23 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation.