Students & Interns
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.
New & Young Worker Training FAQs
This is a cross-section of frequently asked questions that should offer you some reassurance that gaps in employers’ knowledge about young and new workers are common, but easily remedied.
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.
Baby Boomer Tool Kit
Tap into the “best kept secret” labour pool in our industry.
10 Reasons Why Recruiting and Retaining Baby Boomers Will Improve Your Business and Your Bottom Line
The business case has less to do with traditional retention than with the links between flexibility and engagement and between engagement and business results.
Do International Students Need a Work Permit?
Do International Students Need a Work Permit? Question: I am a Manager in a hotel and have had a couple of international students who have recently graduated from a BC college or university tell me that they can come and work for me. All I need to do is to offer them a job and… Continue reading Do International Students Need a Work Permit?
Problems Finding Talent? Head Back to Campus
More and more companies are focusing their attention on campuses to add human capital to their organizations and to lure the younger generation to replace the retiring baby boomers. Here is how your organization can be more successful with campus hiring and attracting a new generation of leaders