Welcome to Your Health & Safety for BC’s
Tourism & Hospitality Industry!
This page contains a wide range of curated content for tourism and hospitality businesses. You’ll get a sense of the overall industry profile, including how many businesses are operating, who is getting injured, what is causing the injuries and the costs associated with those injuries.
You’ll also find resources to help employers mitigate the most common injuries and build workplace cultures that keep workers safe.
Health & Safety for a Wide Range of Business Types
BC’s tourism and hospitality industry is vibrant, diverse and includes a wide range of businesses, both large and small, rural and urban. We’re here to support the health & safety of businesses operating within the tourism and hospitality industry, including:
- Fitness & Sport
- Carnivals
- Outdoor Tours
- Rafting
- Boating
- High Ropes
- Coffee Shops
- Vacation Accomadation
- Restaurant
- Pubs, Bars & Nightclubs
- Ski Areas
- Fitness & Sport
- Carnivals
- Outdoor Tours
- Rafting
Injury Profile Dashboard
Keep Your Workers and Workplace Safe
Health & Safety policies and practices protect your team and your business. go2HR is the Health & Safety association for the tourism and hospitality industry in BC and a certifying partner for the Certificate of Recognition (COR) program with WorkSafeBC
Learn how our tools and programs can help protect your team, create a strong safety culture —and help lower your WorkSafeBC premiums.
Key Topics
Safety Basics
Just starting out? Learn about your legal responsibilities regarding workplace Health & Safety and how to develop a basic Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) program.
An effective Health & Safety program helps you prevent incidents and injuries and deal with any that do occur.
Take our safety basics assessment to see how well your workplace is doing and receive tips on how to improve.
In this section:
- What’s involved in developing a Health & Safety program
- How to create a program that works for the size of your business
- How to do your own workplace safety assessment
- How to get support from go2HR’s Health & Safety experts
Certificate of Recognition (COR)
See how the Certificate of Recognition (COR) program and COR certification can help your business save up to 10% on WorkSafeBC premiums.
In this section:
- COR program introduction
- The ten steps to COR certification
- The benefits of being COR certified COR for small employees (SECOR)
- How to access resources for businesses enrolled in the COR program
Key Initiatives
Mental Health
Learn how to support the psychological health & safety of your employees with mental health programs.
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Sexual Harassment
Learn how to create a strong workplace safety culture that rejects sexual harassment with Safer Spaces.
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Sector-Specific Health & Safety
Get the health & safety specifics for your sector, compare your premiums and injury profile to sector averages and access sector-specific tools and resources to help prevent injuries and keep your claim costs down.
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Pubs, Bars & Nightclubs
Ski Areas
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Our Resource library has you covered with in-depth information about Health & Safety, Human Resources, Training, Research, Strategy, and more.
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