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Search for CoursesThe Certificate of Recognition (COR) program is a proven way for oil and gas employers to improve their health and safety performance. Energy Safety Canada is the certifying partner of COR for the oil and gas industry.
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About PSC 2019Energy Safety Canada is the voice for oil and gas safety in Canada.
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View your profileThe Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA) brought together regional oil sands stakeholders to develop and implement strategies and tools for an incident free workplace.
Learn MoreTraining is a proven route to better worksite safety. In collaboration with our industry partners, we develop innovative training courses to meet the changing needs of a dynamic and progressive oil and gas industry.
Search for CoursesThe Certificate of Recognition (COR) program is a proven way for oil and gas employers to improve their health and safety performance. Energy Safety Canada is the certifying partner of COR for the oil and gas industry.
Get to know the programEvery company has primary responsibility for the safety of its people. But no company can - or should have to - develop all the best safety practices in isolation. At Energy Safety Canada, safety practices and tools are developed, discussed and refined by industry, for industry.
View Our Resource ListFind out about safety events including the Petroleum Safety Conference.
About PSC 2019Energy Safety Canada is the voice for oil and gas safety in Canada.
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View your profileEnergy Safety Canada strives to satisfy the combined requirements of three provincial jurisdictions. This manual and its associated procedures, guidelines and forms will be reviewed and adjusted as provincial standards change and the COR program evolves. These published documents represent all finalized Energy Safety Canada standards specific to the administration of the COR Program but wherever a topic is not addressed, provincial standards will apply.
The Energy Safety Canada COR program is delivered under the direction of a number of provincial COR program standards. These include:
Energy Safety Canada maintains a list of all employers that have used Energy Safety Canada as a Certifying Partner and are presently valid COR holders. This list includes COR and Small Employer Certificate of Recognition (SECOR) holders in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and other jurisdictions.
For a more detailed, legal breakdown of the roles and responsibilities for all parties involved in the COR certification process, view Energy Safety Canada's Outline of Roles and Responsibilities.
We offer three Certification of Recognition (COR) audits, depending on the size of your business:
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SECOR
Small Employer Certificate of Recognition – for companies with less than 11 employees
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MECOR
Medium Employer Certificate of Recognition – for companies with 10 to 19 employees
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COR
Certificate of Recognition – for companies with 20 or more employees
The standard COR certification is issued for three years. In the first year, you will receive a certification audit by an external auditor. Then, maintenance audits will be performed during the second and third years.
If your company has less than 11 employees, your company is eligible for a SECOR certification. The SECOR is issued for three years and follows the same three-year cycle as the COR, but the audit protocol and requirements are different. Learn more about the SECOR process. Learn More
The MECOR is designed for growing SECOR certified companies or new companies to the COR program who have 10-19 employees. Over the course of a three-year cycle, employers transition from a SECOR to a COR-based certification. Learn more about the MECOR process. Read More about the MECOR process.
A one-year COR may be issued when an employer is new to the COR program and their safety management system is less than a year old. Both provincial governing bodies and Energy Safety Canada must jointly approve a One-year COR. One-year CORs may also be issued in other unique circumstances as needed.
A six-month COR may be granted in special situations, such as when an existing COR is about to expire and, for a number of reasons, there are no worksites available to audit. In these situations, an administrative audit may be performed, which is limited to reviewing documentation and interviewing employees at the administrative site.
If a large company has a developed safety program with well-established health and safety management systems, the employer may apply to Energy Safety Canada for participation in the Partnerships Audit Standard Equivalency (PASE) program. The employer must meet specific criteria to qualify for participation in the program.
A baseline audit determines the extent and limitations of an employer's current safety program. This audit provides information concerning areas of the safety program that require upgrading.
The external audit for COR certification audits an employer’s safety program. The audit needs to be conducted by an Energy Safety Canada certified auditor who is not an employee of the company being reviewed. An external audit must be conducted on three-year intervals to renew an existing COR.
In the second and third year of a three-year COR cycle, a maintenance audit must be performed. This audit may be conducted by an Energy Safety Canada certified internal auditor who is an employee of the company.
The SECOR program allows a small employer to submit information and health and safety management system documents to Energy Safety Canada for review to obtain SECOR certification. The SECOR program requires a representative of the company to complete a two-day training course.
In the event that a company is required to perform an audit for re-certification purposes, but does not have active worksites available to audit, an administrative audit may be performed and a six-month COR may be issued. Documentation and interviews are still conducted, but observations are limited to the available administrative site.
An Injury Management/Return-To-Work (IM/RTW) audit measures a company's management system. The official IM/RTW audit program with WorkSafeBC is currently suspended, but maintenance IM/RTW audits will be accepted at this time. Learn more about the program changes below.
You earned your COR, be proud of it! The logo can be used on your website, letterhead, or other internal documents to demonstrate that you have achieved COR or SECOR status. Please refer to the PDF Guideline document below for proper use and placement of the COR logo.
The COR logo was developed as part of a campaign led by the Alberta Construction Safety Association and other industry safety groups, in partnership with Alberta Human Services. Energy Safety Canada is proud to be a sponsor of this campaign.
Should you have any questions, please call the toll-free COR Call Centre at 1 800 667 5557 ext. 3 or email us at CORInfo@EnergySafetyCanada.com
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