Course Category: Occupational Health & Safety

OHS Committee Member – Level 2

Course Description:
Employers, workers and occupational health and safety committees all play an important role in developing a strong workplace health and safety culture.

Employers play an important role in developing a strong workplace health and safety culture. Employers are required to communicate their commitment to health and safety to all workers, and develop and implement an OHS program. Workers must protect their own health and safety, as well as that of other workers and the employer. OHS committees support both employers and workers to ensure the safest workplace.

Committee members are not expected to be experts in all aspects of OHS. This course is intended to provide general knowledge, resources and tools to help you fulfill your role

Duration:
8 hours (1 day)

Who Should Attend:
Employers, OHS Committee Members
Under the legislation, where 50 or more workers are employed at the workplace, all members of the OH&S Committee must be trained. Where 10 to 49 workers are employed at the workplace, the co-chairpersons of the OH&S Committee must be trained.

Prerequisites: OHS Committee, WHS Representative and Designate – Level 1

Purpose of Training:
The purpose of this training is to give committee members the knowledge they require to fulfill their duties and responsibilities under the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and Regulations.
Committee members are responsible for:
• Monitoring OHS in the workplace
• Taking a proactive role, being good ambassadors, role models, and mentors of health and safety in the workplace
• Playing major roles in developing and sustaining a positive health and safety culture in the workplace in conjunction with workers and employers
• Promoting health and safety awareness in the workplace At times, situations may arise in the workplace that the committee may not know how to address.

Learning Modules:
1. Core OHS Concepts
2. Essentials of Committees
3. Hazard Recognition, Evaluation, and Control
4. Making it Effective Purpose of Train

Recertification: 3 Years

OHS committee recertification is required every three years from the date of initial certification. Recertification options will include online or in-class refresher training as prescribed by WorkplaceNL. A recertification course must be completed prior to the expiry of a certificate. In the event certification training expires the initial certification course must be completed in order to recertify. It is the responsibility of the certificate holder to register and participate in a recertification program.

 

OHS Committee, WHS Representative and Designate – Level 1

Course Description:
Employers, workers and occupational health and safety committees, worker health and safety representatives, workplace health and safety designates (committees, representatives and designates) all play an important role in developing a strong workplace health and safety culture.

At times, situations may arise in the workplace that committees, representatives and designates may not know how to address. Committees, representatives and designates are not expected to be experts in all aspects of OHS. This course is intended to provide general knowledge, resources and tools to help fulfill your role.

Prerequisites: None

Duration:
8 hours (1 day)

Who Should Attend:
Employers, OHS Committee Members, WHS Representatives, and Designates
Under the legislation, where 50 or more workers are employed at the workplace, all members of the OH&S Committee must be trained. Where 10 to 49 workers are employed at the workplace, the co-chairpersons of the OH&S Committee must be trained.

Purpose of Training:
The purpose of the Level 1 OHS Committee, WHS Representative and Designate Certification Training is to provide committees, representatives, and designates with the knowledge needed to fulfill their duties and responsibilities under the OHS Act and Regulations by:
• Monitoring OHS in the workplace.
• Taking a proactive role and being proactive champions of health safety in the workplace.
• Working with employers and workers to develop and sustain a health and safety culture in the workplace.
• Promoting health and safety awareness in the workplace.

Learning Modules:
1. Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
2. Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
3. Workplace Inspections
4. Incident Investigations

Recertification: 3 Years

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)

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Course Description:
This course is designed to train all employees, employers and suppliers who work with or in the proximity of controlled products in the workplace, in the safe use of controlled products and the legislative requirements of WHMIS.

Duration:
4 hours

Who Should Attend:

As required by legislation all persons who produce, supply, handle, store, use, dispose or work with or in the proximity of controlled products in the workplace must undergo WHMIS training.

WHMIS regulations section 5 states: “An employer shall ensure that a worker who works with a controlled product or in proximity to a controlled product is informed about all hazard information received from a supplier concerning that controlled product as well as any further hazard information of which the employer is aware or ought to be aware concerning the use, storage and handling of that controlled product. Where a controlled product is produced in a workplace, an employer shall ensure that a worker who works with that controlled product or in proximity to that controlled product is informed about all hazard information of which the employer is aware or ought to be aware concerning that controlled product and its use, storage and handling.”

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of “WHMIS” each participant will have an awareness of:

  • Their responsibilities and how to protect their health and safety while working with or in the proximity of controlled products
  • The meaning of WHMIS symbols and classifications and the hazards associated with each
  • How controlled products can enter the body and how to use personal protective equipment to protect themselves from those hazards
  • Appropriate first aid measures to take in the case of an emergency involving a controlled product such as a swallowed, inhaled or absorbed poison
  • The information that is required on supplier and workplace labels and how to use that information to protect their health and safety
  • Acceptable variations to labels such as in the case of small containers, bulk shipments, and laboratory products
  • The information that is required on material safety data sheets and how to use that information to protect their health and safety