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Industry & Program Specialist - Health & Safety
@ WorkSafeBC
Nanaimo, British Columbia
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Overview
WorkSafeBC is hiring an Industry and Program Specialist in health and safety to build and implement occupational health and safety programs that prevent worker injury and disease. The role works with B.C. employers, industry associations and labour groups, based in an assigned office five days a week, with occasional overnight travel and periodic evening and weekend work. Pay is $51.42 to $64.82 per hour.
Responsibilities:
- Identify, develop and implement strategic prevention programs and initiatives
- Act as technical resource for health and safety associations and industry associations
- Build partnerships with industry stakeholders
- Prepare and deliver OHS presentations to stakeholders
- Provide in-depth analysis and improvement of OHS programs and culture
Requirements summary:
- Degree in a related discipline
- Minimum nine years progressive professional experience
- At least 3 years health and safety experience
- Experience with risk assessments and safety programs
- Experience with inspections, investigations and audits
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-15
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-15
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Allied health |
| Experience | 9+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day, evening |
| Travel | ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Background checks | criminal record |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Related discipline |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Tuition support |
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WorkSafeBC
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Richmond |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 33 |
Job description
Are you passionate about Safety? Do you want to make a difference on a large scale? We are looking for Industry and Program Specialists with advanced experience in creating and implementing occupational health and safety programs and initiatives that prevent worker injury and disease.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll help ensure B.C. workers go home safely at the end of their workday.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role is based in your assigned office five days a week
We have positions available in the following locations, with a preference for specific industry knowledge and experience per location below:
Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
Who We Are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
Learn more: Discover who we are.
Our Benefits
As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:
Salary: $ 51.42/hourly – 64.82/hourly
Want to apply?
We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll help ensure B.C. workers go home safely at the end of their workday.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role is based in your assigned office five days a week
We have positions available in the following locations, with a preference for specific industry knowledge and experience per location below:
- Nanaimo: Healthcare, Municipal, and BC Government
- Richmond: Supply Chain and General OHS experience
- Engage with BC stakeholders to:
- consult and work with industry associations, labour associations, and health and safety associations to develop innovative strategies, programs and resources to prevent workplace injury, disease, and death; and/or
- provide education and support related to workplace health and safety matters with a focus on ensuring that employers can achieve sustainable regulatory compliance and that workers are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
- Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.
- Identify, develop, and implement strategic prevention services, programs, projects, and initiatives that positively impact workplace health and safety
- Act as a technical resource and apply workplace health and safety expertise and knowledge to various stakeholders including health & safety associations and industry associations
- Build partnerships and networks with industry stakeholders to establish positive long-term relationships
- Prepare and deliver impactful OHS safety presentations to various stakeholders with the purpose of educating on key OHS topics
- Support stakeholders by providing in-depth analysis and improvement of OHS programs, processes and culture, specific risk control initiatives and innovative projects
- Travel overnight in BC on occasion. Travel to various locations local to your area may be routinely required
- Work evenings and weekends periodically, as required
- A degree in a related discipline
- A minimum of nine years of progressive professional experience and at least 3 years of health and safety experience such as development of risk assessments, designing, delivering, and implementing health and safety programs, conducting workplace inspections/investigations, monitoring/evaluating an organization’s safety performance, participating in audits, addressing compliance issues, and developing corrective action plans to improve safety performance.
Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
- Consent to a criminal record check
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada
Who We Are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
Learn more: Discover who we are.
Our Benefits
As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
- 3 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
- Extensive health care and dental benefits
- Optional leave and earned-time-off arrangements
- Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)
Salary: $ 51.42/hourly – 64.82/hourly
Want to apply?
We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.
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