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HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING top
In addition to her consulting services, Linda brings her years of post-secondary teaching, curriculum development and presentation skills to the following health and safety training topics.
Individuals who haven't been in a classroom for years find the atmosphere relaxed and very conducive to learning new health and safety concepts and reviewing older ones. Read what people are saying about her training sessions here.
All course materials and refreshments are covered in the course fees.
In addition to the training outlined here, you can arrange for these courses or customized training to be held at your workplace. Call Linda to ask about these options.
* The following courses have been assessed and meet the Ministry of the Environment's criteria for Director Approved Continuing Education under O.Reg. 128/04 as part of the mandatory licensing system for operators of drinking water and domestic sewage treatment facilities in Ontario:
- Fall Protection (0.4) CEUs
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- WHMIS (0.4) CEUs
- Competent Supervision (0.75) CEUs
OHS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS top
The Occupational Health and Safety Act (the Act) defines the health and safety roles, rights and responsibilities of everyone in the workplace. The Internal Responsibility System is the partnership of workplace parties arising from this. It works to ensure a safe and disease-free workplace. As the Act sets out substantial penalties applying to everyone in the workplace when their obligations are not met, all partnership parties need to know their roles, rights and responsibilities in order to fulfill their obligations. Who can afford to be liable for a workplace incident and, as a result, face a substantial fine and/or imprisonment?
Each of those attending this half-day course will receive a copy of the OHS Act and Regulations and learn: how to read the Act and Regulations; the roles, rights and responsibilities of each of the workplace parties; and about the only defence available to someone charged under the Act-the Due Diligence Defence. This defence must be built over time and be in place before an incident occurs. Participants will begin building their defences in the classroom. Criminal liability (Bill C-45) will also be discussed. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Training materials: the Act and Regulations, Safety Infraction Notices, and various other resources.
Who should attend: Owners, employers and managers.
JOINT HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE (JHSC) CERTIFICATION top
The Act requires workplaces where 20 or more employees (including part-time) are regularly employed, a Section 33 order is in effect, or less than 20 workers are employed but where a designated substance regulation applies, to have a JHSC. The Act also requires that at least two members receive health and safety training and be certified by the WSIB.
These Certified Members have additional rights beyond those of other JHSC members and training is required. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is responsible for setting standards for certification and certifying JHSC members against those standards.
There are two parts to the JHSC Certification training process: Basic Certification (Phase I) and Workplace-Specific Hazard Training (Phase II). In order for the members to be certified, both parts are required.
Basic Certification (Phase I)
Basic Certification training is fundamental training that covers the law, hazard recognition, hazard control and community health and safety resources. This training can be obtained through any approved provider as noted on the WSIB website. Linda Magill is a WSIB approved provider for Basic Certification.
This two-day training session is also an excellent way for Worker Representatives (for workplaces that are not required to have a JHSC) and new supervisors or managers to get up to speed on Health and Safety requirements.
Training materials: The Act and Regulations, Participant's Manual, Participant's Notebook and reference material.
Who should attend: JHSC Members, Worker Representatives and Supervisors and Managers who need a quick and convenient way to learn about health and safety legislation, workplace inspections, and accident investigations.
Phase II: Workplace Specific Hazard Awareness Training
This training focuses on significant hazards in your workplace. It covers how to assess those hazards and ways to control and/or eliminate them. Significant hazards are hazards that could result in injury or illness if not controlled.
Employers are responsible for determining significant hazards based on the results of a hazard assessment. Once the hazards have been determined, training that meets all the learning objectives outlined in the Certification Training Program Standards must be provided for each significant hazard.
Linda has developed three training packages suitable for a number
of workplaces. The training is aimed at recognizing, assessing
and controlling significant hazards in workplaces. Each module
meets the WSIB standards for workplace-specific hazard training.
Phase II Training Suitable for Office Workers (1 day)
Ergonomics & MSDs
Indoor Air Quality
Slips, Trips & Falls (Walking & Working Surfaces)
Violence Prevention
Phase II Training Suitable for Manufacturing (2 days)
Machine Safety
Chemical Safety
Ergonomics & MSDs
Mechanical Materials Handling
Manual Materials Handling
Slips, Trips & Falls (Walking & Working Surfaces)
Phase II Training Suitable for Health Care (2 days)
Ergonomics & MSDs
Indoor Air Quality
Slips, Trips & Falls (Walking & Working Surfaces)
Infection Prevention & Control
Violence Prevention
Emergency Management & Fire Safety
Other Training Modules Suitable for Phase II Training
Linda also provides a series of workplace specific hazard awareness training sessions, each dealing topics such as: Lockout/Tagout; Ergonomics; Hoisting & Rigging; Automotive Hoist; Scaffolds; Overhead Cranes; Powered Elevating Work Platforms (scissor and boom lifts); Fall Protection; Machine Guarding; Equipment Processes; Stress; Work Rage; Electrical Hazards; Chemical Processes and Spills; Indoor Air Quality; Confined Space Entry; Slips, Trips and Falls; Working with Flammable and Combustible Materials; and Fire Prevention & Response. Call Linda to obtain more information about the requirements and reporting procedures for Phase II training.
Who should attend: JHSC members and any worker or manager who must be aware of the specific hazard(s).
Course materials: Participant's Manuals.
These courses can be delivered onsite to all the workers who must be aware of these specific hazards. Call Linda to find out how your JHSC training can be combined with your health and safety program for all workers. Enhance your due diligence.
WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS AND HAZARD ANALYSIS top
Managers and supervisors must make workplace health and safety inspections; however, these inspections are often overlooked or not recorded in any way that would make them an effective part of a due diligence defence if one were needed. Worker Representatives and JHSC members must also make workplace health and safety inspections as part of their duties under the Act.
Participants will employ the R-A-C Model of recognizing, assessing, and controlling hazards, and will learn how to conduct an inspection, in a manner that will least disrupt work in progress while still obtaining the desired results and how and when to record, report and follow up the inspection. Practical exercises will be employed during this one-day course. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials: Workplace Inspection and Hazard Analysis Forms, and Hazard Analysis and Control Resource Guides.
Who should attend: JHSC Members, managers, supervisors and anyone who must identify hazards for Phase II JHSC Training.
ACCIDENT/INCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS top
Accident and incident investigation and analysis is an opportunity for the employer to accomplish a number of goals: prevent future accidents and incidents, reassure workers that management is sincerely concerned about their health and safety, add to a future due diligence defence, and comply with legislated requirements. Unfortunately, the investigation is often not done, is not performed by the appropriate person, is not performed in a manner that will best meet the needs of all workplace parties and legislative requirements, or is not analyzed properly to ensure that all lessons that can be learned from the incident are learned.
This one-day course will ensure participants know how to conduct a thorough accident/incident investigation, document their findings, analyze the incident, and follow up on the entire process. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials: Accident Report and Analysis Report Forms, and Accident Analysis Resource Guide.
Who should attend: Those who should investigate accidents—managers and supervisors.
THE COMPETENT SUPERVISOR top
The Act requires that employers hire 'competent' supervisors and defines competent persons as persons who: (a) are qualified because of knowledge, training and experience to organize the work and its performance; (b) are familiar with the Act and the Regulations that apply to the work; and (c) have knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace.
Each participant in this one-day course will receive a copy of the OHS Act and Regulations and will learn how to read and use the Act and the Regulations and identify hazards in their workplace in order to meet the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) above. They will also be introduced to workplace inspections and accident investigation; learn about the Internal Responsibility System and due diligence defences; and begin constructing their own due diligence defences. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Training materials: The Act and Regulations, Participant's Manual, and Safety Infraction Notices.
This course has been assessed and meets the Ministry of the Environment's criteria for Director Approved Continuing Education under O.Reg. 128/04 as part of the mandatory licensing system for operators of drinking water and domestic sewage treatment facilities in Ontario - 0.75 CEUs.
Who should attend: anyone who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker, supervisors.
WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM (WHMIS) top
WHMIS is a Canada-wide system designed to give workplace parties information about the hazardous materials used in their workplaces. The Act requires that employers provide worker education and training about the system and the hazardous products used in their workplaces. Course content: WHMIS legislation, responsibilities of workplace parties, the six WHMIS classes, the physical states hazardous materials take, the routes of entry into the body, and the types of health effects hazardous agents can have and the body systems they can affect. Each successful participant will be issued a wallet-sized certificate of training at the end of the course.
This course has been assessed and meets the Ministry of the Environment's criteria for Director Approved Continuing Education under O.Reg. 128/04 as part of the mandatory licensing system for operators of drinking water and domestic sewage treatment facilities in Ontario - 0.4 CEUs.
Who should attend this half-day course: Any person who requires general WHMIS training.
Course Materials: Participant's Manual and WHMIS reference material.
TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS (Plain Language) top
Federal and provincial legislation requires that all persons involved with the handling, offering for transport, or transporting of dangerous goods be certified.
This five-hour course provides participants with an overview of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act and Regulations and their application. Practical exercises and knowledge verification are part of the learning experience. Each successful participant will be issued a wallet-sized certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials include: Participant's Guide and "Transporting Dangerous Goods by Truck."
Who should attend: All persons involved with the handling, offering for transport, or transporting of dangerous goods.
LIFT-TRUCK OPERATOR'S CERTIFICATION top
The Canada Labour Code requires that operators of lift trucks be 'qualified', and the OHSA requires that they be 'competent'. The new CSA safety standard for lift trucks (B335-04) was published in May 2004. This standard requires that all operators be: trained, receive retraining at three-year intervals, and receive a practical skills evaluation 18 months after initial training or retraining.
This one-day training program meets the standards set out by the CSA, with the exception of the practical skills evaluation. Participants will: learn the essential principles involved in the safe operation of a lift truck; understand lift truck stability and safe loading criteria; recognize the hazards of lift truck operation to the operator and the people around them; learn safe re-fueling practices; and the legal responsibilities of a lift truck operator. Each successful participant will be issued a wallet-sized certificate of training.
Course materials: Detailed Participant's Manual and Wallet Certificate.
Who should attend: Any lift truck operator or supervisor.
FALL PROTECTION FOR CONSTRUCTION top
Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act and regulations require employers to ensure that workers who may use a fall protection system are trained in the use of the system and given both oral and written instructions.
This four-hour training session meets the requirements of the regulations. Participants will learn about legal responsibilities, basic fall hazards and controls, fall prevention, and fall arrest. The learning experience will end with a knowledge verification exercise and practical exercises in the use of the fall arrest system. Attendees are requested to bring their own full-body harness and lanyard to the training session. Each successful participant will be issued a wallet-sized certificate of training at the end of the course.
This course has been assessed and meets the Ministry of the Environment's criteria for Director Approved Continuing Education under O.Reg. 128/04 as part of the mandatory licensing system for operators of drinking water and domestic sewage treatment facilities in Ontario - 0.4 CEUs.
Course materials: Participant's Manual.
Who should attend: Anyone who may need to use a fall arrest system and/or operators of drinking water and domestic sewage treatment facilities in Ontario.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING top
These courses are focused on the driver and driving attitudes, and feature proven safe and defensive driving strategies. Themes include: the law
(the legal element), the driver (the human element), the vehicle (the mechanical element), the environment, and defensive driving techniques.
Defensive Driving for Commercial Operators
One-day course for commercial drivers.
Defensive Driving for Bus Drivers
One-day course for school bus drivers, supervisors, and driver trainers.
Defensive Driving G Class Drivers
Half-day course for anyone who must drive as part of their employment.
THE EFFECTIVE JHSC top
Effective JHSCs don't just happen; they evolve over time with experience and training. This is a one-day workshop, specific to your workplace, for the entire JHSC.
Members will receive a brief review the legislative requirements for JHSCs, complete a self- assessment of the committee's needs, learn how to meet those needs and develop effective procedures for handling the responsibilities and duties of the committee, i.e., handling work refusals, conducting meetings, communicating with the workforce, and making recommendations. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials: Participant's Manual and JHSC Reference Guide
Who should attend: JHSC members
PREVENTING VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE top
Workplace violence is becoming a serious problem in Canada. It is a worker problem, a human resources problem, and a management problem. Violence is not restricted to physical and sexual acts but can also consist of bullying, aggression, unwanted 'teasing' and 'joking', harassment, sexual harassment, and forms of psychological violence. Employers have a duty to deal with it as they do any other hazard in the workplace; they must recognize, assess and control it.
This one-day workshop will teach participants how to identify the problem and the risk factors, develop a violence prevention program, and how to prevent and respond to workplace violence. Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials: Participant's Manual and Violence in the Workplace Prevention Guide.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in preventing workplace violence.
CONFINED SPACE ENTRY top
Confined space requirements in four existing regulations--construction, industrial, health care and mining--are now enhanced to provide stronger protection and consistency. In addition, most workers covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act, who were previously not covered by specific sector regulations, will now be included under a new regulation for confined spaces. All new requirements will came into effect on September 30, 2006.
This one-day course will provide participants with an understanding of the changes to the regulations, the hazards of confined space entry and control of those hazards. Each successful participant will be issued a wallet-sized certificate of training at the end of the course.
NOTE: Employers must also provide workers with training specific to their workplaces in addition to this generic confined space entry training.
Course materials: Participant's Manual and Resource Materials.
Who should attend: Anyone who may be entering a confined space, serving as an attendant at a confined space where others are working, and/or supervising those entering a interested a confined space.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS REGULATION FOR MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS top
Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Industrial Establishments Regulation require that employers, supervisors and workers comply with the requirements of the Act and the Regulations that apply to their workplace.
This half-day course will acquaint attendees with the requirements of the Industrial Establishments Regulation (Ontario Regulation 851). Each successful participant will be issued a certificate of training at the end of the course.
Course materials: Participant's Manual and Resource Materials.
Who should attend: Anyone who works in a workplace in which the Industrial Establishments Regulation is in effect.
RESPIRATORY PROTECTION WORKSHOP top
Demonstrate "due diligence" in your health and safety program by developing and implementing an effective respiratory protection program that meets the CSA Standards for Selection, Use and Care of Respirators.
During this full-day workshop, you will be guided through the CSA standard and be well on your way in the development and implementation of your Respiratory Protection Program.
Course contents include: The Respiratory Protection Program; Roles and Responsibilities; Hazard Assessment; Respirator Selection; *Respirator Fit Testing-General Information, Quantitative Fit Testing, Qualitative Fit Testing, and Recording Testing; Training Requirements for Users; Use of Respirators; Health Surveillance; Program Evaluation and Record Keeping.
*Please note that the Respirator Fit Testing portion of this program DOES NOT include training for fit testers.
Course materials: CSA Standard CSA-Z94.4-02-Selection, Use and Care of Respirators and 'Smart CD' (has an interactive respirator selector tool that aids the user in the selection process of a respirator).
Who should attend: Managers, supervisors and anyone who must develop a Respiratory Protection Program.
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