Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

Our aspiration to build confidence in a safety system that improves the wellbeing of people throughout the province will only be achieved if everyone can participate.

Through innovative ideas, skills, partnerships, and tools, we are improving how people can easily, equitably, and effectively participate in the safety system. This includes identifying and removing the barriers that limit access.

Our Plan

Our inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) strategy is designed to ensure that our people and programs reflect the population we serve, embracing and encouraging different perspectives, while addressing bias. We know we are made stronger by a unique combination of culture, race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental ability, geography, socio-economic status, and work-life situations.

Our plan sets transparent, measurable activities and targets in key areas, including but not limited to:

Our Goals

• A workforce that reflects the population of BC, including Indigenous Peoples, enabling Technical Safety BC to better provide safety oversight for all people living in the province.
• Develop products and services with employees and consultants who have expertise in IDEA and decolonial methodologies, assuring language inclusion and accessibility for persons with disabilities is considered.
• Expand our safety system's reach by using an equitable mindset and tools to remove discrimination, bias and colonial thinking. The inclusion of underserved communities will result in reduced safety risk.
• Develop and communicate a policy for the use of inclusive language on race and ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, and other dimensions.