Guides for better SOPs and safe work procedures.
Practical, plain-language guides for supervisors, safety coordinators and operations leaders in BC and across Canada.
How to Write a Safe Work Procedure in BC: A 7-Step Guide
A safe work procedure (SWP) tells a worker exactly how to do a hazardous task safely. In BC, write one for each task your hazard assessment flags, involve the workers who do the task, list hazards, controls, PPE and steps in order, get it approved, train workers on it, and review it whenever equipment, tasks or risks change.
GUIDE · 5 MIN READVideo SOPs vs. Paper Binders: Why Shop Floors Are Switching
Paper SOP binders are slow to write, hard to update and rarely opened on the floor. Video-based SOPs start from a recording of the real task, become written, approved procedures with screenshots, and are opened at the machine by QR code, so they are faster to create and more likely to be followed and kept current.
GUIDE · 6 MIN READPreparing Your Safe Work Procedures for a COR Audit in BC
For a BC COR audit, make sure every hazard in your assessment has a written safe work practice or job procedure, that workers who do the task helped write it, that each procedure is approved, current and dated, and that you can show which workers were trained on it. Confirm the exact audit questions with your certifying partner.
Your next SOP could be ready in minutes.
Record a task on your phone and see what SOP365 creates for your team. No credit card required.
