With the upcoming legalization of cannabis, WorkSafeBC is helping prepare employers and workers by educating them about impairment on the job with new online resources.
The focus of the new resource is not so much about enforcement or testing, but rather on the issue of assessing functional impairment, according to Tom Brocklehurst, director of prevention, practices and quality at WorkSafeBC.
“We would expect employers to think about the tasks that their workers hold and the positions they have and if impairment will cause them to make some judgment errors or some physical errors that would cause risk to themselves or
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