This Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors in Canada online training course is designed for employees in managerial and supervisory positions. Whether you are new to a supervisory position or want to fill in some knowledge gaps, this 15-module course will help to prepare you for your health and safety responsibilities as a manager or supervisor. By understanding your responsibilities well, you can play a significant role in keeping health and safety issues at bay. Know that health and safety issues can be responsible for loss of human life, injuries and disability claims, and even employer liability.
Along with safeguarding precious human life, you can also save your employer from spending millions of dollars and from embarrassment and ill-repute in the industry.
This Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors in Canada online training course explores safeguarding the health and safety of employees in the workplace. Through this 15-module course, supervisors and managers will learn about the health and safety requirements for their workplace and how to develop a program around it. They will also learn about common hazards and injuries that plague many workplaces and workers as well as some that are specialized, such as hazards of working with chemicals.
Further into this course, supervisors and managers will learn more about identifying hazards, assessing risks, controlling risks, and conducting investigations in case of an incident.
This course concludes with insight into how managers and supervisors can devise a response plan for emergencies, keeping them alert and prepared for any adverse events that might take place.
Course Learning Objectives
By taking this online Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors in Canada course, the user will learn about:
- The internal responsibility system and the concept of due diligence that underpin OHS legislation in Canada
- The requirements and procedures to prevent health and safety issues
- Advisory groups within organizations that help address health and safety issues
- The ways workplace hazards are classified
- The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
- Ergonomic injuries which are collectively referred to as Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs)
- Noise and hearing
- Harassment and violence in the workplace
- Mental health in the workplace
- Learning to identify hazards and assessing risks in the workplace
- Controlling hazards at the worker by using personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Preventing incidents by conducting regularly scheduled workplace inspections
- Investigating an occurrence, condition, or situation that caused a health and safety issue
- Workplace fires
- Identifying and assessing potential emergencies and a plan to respond to them
Course Outline
This online Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors in Canada course is made up of the following sections:
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Legislation
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program Development
- Joint Health and Safety Committees
- Health and Safety Hazards in the Workplace
- Hazardous Materials (WHMIS)
- Ergonomics & WMSDs
- Workplace Noise and Hearing Loss
- Harassment and Violence
- Mental Health and the Workplace
- Identifying Hazards and Assessing Risks
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Conducting Workplace Inspections
- Incident Investigation
- Fire Prevention
- Emergency Preparedness
Course Audience
This Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors in Canada online training course was designed for employees in managerial and supervisory positions.
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