Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission: Certified Training Provider
Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Committees and Worker Health and Safety (WH&S) Representatives Workplace Health and Safety (WH&S) Designates
Course Format: The course format includes, fourteen (14) hours of classroom instruction with the visual aid of a power point presentation.
Course Objectives: To provide the Occupational Health and Safety Committees and Worker Health and Safety Representatives/Designates the basis knowledge they require to fulfill their duties and responsibilities under the Occupational Health & Safety Act and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.
Course Duration: Two (Days)
Cost: Group Rate
Course Outline:
Topic 1: Introduction to Occupational Health & Safety
- Definition of Occupational Health & Safety
- Costs related to accidents and injuries
- Stakeholders’ role in building a safety culture
- Reporting incidents/near misses is a key to PREVENTION
- Developing an Occupational Health and Safety policy
- Elements of an Occupational Health and Safety program
- Occupational Health and Safety terms and resources
Topic 2: Occupational Health & Safety Legislation
- The purpose of the Occupational Health & Safety Act and Regulations
- The "Internal Responsibility System"
- Establishing “Due Diligence" in the workplace
- Refusing unsafe work - “Right to Refuse" and the role of OH&S Committees/ WH&S Representatives/Designates in the Right to Refuse" unsafe work
- The legislative duties of key people involved in OH&S: Employers, Workers, OH&S Committees /WH&S Representatives/Designates, Contractors, Department of Government Services, and Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission
- Early and safe return-to-work legislation (Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act)
Topic 3: Occupational Health & Safety Committees/Worker Health and Safety Representatives/Designates
- Definition, purpose and duties:
- Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Workplace Health & Safety Representatives/Designates
- Establishing an Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Developing a Terms of Reference
- Activities of each of the Occupational Health and Safety Committee members and the Workplace Health & Safety Representatives/Designates
- Components of an Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Recommendations process: Making, Communicating, and Following-up
- Reviewing the minutes-recording process
- Evaluating the Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- OH&S Committees and WH&S Representatives/Designates supporting early and safe return-to-work
- Purpose of hazard recognition, evaluation and control
- Definition, categories and examples of hazards
- Contributing factors to hazards – people, equipment, materials and the environment (PEME)
- Process involved in accident/incident investigation
- The role of OH&S Committees/WH&S Representatives/Designates in the accident/incident investigation process
- Evaluating hazards
- Controlling hazards - Hierarchy of Controls
- Role of the following workplace parties in Hazard Recognition, Evaluating and Control: Employers, Workers, OH&S Committees and WH&S Representatives/Designates
- Supporting injured workers - Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
- Definitions and purpose of workplace inspections
- Legislative requirements for workplace inspections
- Importance of hazard recognition, evaluation and control in conducting workplace inspections
- Role of OH&S Committees/WH&S Representatives/Designates in workplace inspections
- Workplace inspections steps – Planning, Conducting, Completing and Monitoring
- Workplace inspections – benefiting injured.
Topic 4: Hazard Recognition, Evaluation & Control
Topic 5: Workplace Inspections
