Course Description:
Anyone using a respirator is required to receive adequate training.
Duration:
4 hours
Who Should Attend:
72. NL OHS Regulations — An employer shall ensure that a worker who wears personal protective equipment is adequately instructed in the correct use, limitations and assigned maintenance duties for the equipment to be used.This training must be renewed annually.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the importance of fit testing
- Describe the fit testing process
- Use their respirator for best protection
Course Description:
This course has been designed by Workplace, Health, Safety and Compensation Commission (WHSCC) to provide participants with basic knowledge about electricity, electrical hazards, and safety measures when working in proximity to power lines. Additionally, the course reviews all appropriate legislative requirements and teaches participants the procedure to follow when equipment becomes charged with an electrical current.
Duration:
4 hours
Who Should Attend:
Power line hazards’ training is a legal requirement for operators of boom trucks, mobile cranes and other similar equipment.
Powerline hazards training
483. (NL OHS Regulations) A person shall not operate a mobile crane, boom truck or similar equipment that has the capacity of encroaching on a power line without having first completed a safety training program on power line hazards required by the commission.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of “Power Line Hazards” each participant will have an awareness of:
- The importance of receiving power line hazards training
- Best practices to follow when working around power line hazards
- The way electricity works and how it relates to working around power lines
- How to protect one’s self from electricity
- Legislative requirements surrounding working around power lines
- What to do if the vehicle comes in contact with a power line
- Safety precautions surrounding working around power lines
Recertification: 3 Years
Course Description:
The course trains individuals in the skills of accident/incident investigation and will provide a functional mechanism for improving health and safety performance in the workplace. The purpose of proper skills in accident investigation is not related to finding blame or assigning responsibility for the occurrence, but to determine the root causes so that proper procedures and controls can be implemented to prevent any further occurrences.
Duration:
8 hours
Who Should Attend:
This course is suitable for use by anybody who has or may have responsibility for investigation of accidents or incidents in the workplace, including managers/supervisors, safety personnel and safety committee members.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the basic accident theory “What causes accidents to occur?”
- understand the concept of “no fault accident analysis” versus “blame culture” approach to investigations
- understand the methods for gathering information on accidents, how to analyze the facts and how to implement solutions
- be able to apply the six basic steps in accident investigation
- determine the causes of accidents through applying cause analysis techniques
Purpose:
This recertification course has been designed by St. John Ambulance to train each participant to the CPR level. The course will provide the participant with specific knowledge, skills and confidence that will enable them to recognize when first aid is needed, administer first aid at an emergency scene and recognize when more qualified help or medical help is required.
Course Duration:
4 hours
Who Should Attend:
Anybody who is interested in learning CPR or who is required as a condition of employment to participate in the course.
Frequency of Training:
Certification must be renewed annually.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes:
Upon completion of “CPR” each participant will have an awareness of:
- The principles of first aid and emergency scene management
- How to perform a scene survey and a primary survey
- How to recognize and provide first aid for shock, unconsciousness and fainting
- How to recognize breathing emergencies and provide artificial respiration
- How to recognize choking and provide first aid for a choking adult
- Measures to prevent breathing emergencies in children and infants
- How to perform mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration on a child and an infant
- How to provide first aid for a choking child and infant
- How to perform one-rescuer CPR on a child and infant
- Risk factors, preventative health measures and types of cardiovascular disease
- How to recognize a cardiovascular emergency and provide first aid
- How to perform one-rescuer CPR for an adult casualty
- How to perform two-rescuer CPR on an adult casualty
Course Description:
This recertification course is designed to train participants in the fundamentals of fall prevention and protection. In introduces participants to the importance of fall prevention and protection, the differences between the two, and most importantly, how to work safely while working at heights. This course meets the requirements and has been approved by Newfoundland WHSCC and is approved and available in both French and English.
Duration:
8 hours
Who Should Attend:
Persons who wish to or are required to perform work at heights, Supervisors and Safety Personnel
Training requirement
139(NL OHS Regulations). A worker shall not use fall protection equipment after January 1, 2012 unless he or she has completed a training program on fall protection prescribed by the commission.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of “Fall Prevention and Protection” each participant will have an awareness of:
- The Importance of Fall Protection Training
- Legislative Roles and Responsibilities of Workplace Parties
- Fall Protection Legislation
- Employer Responsibility for Fall Protection Plans/Programs
- Fall Protection System Forces and Clearances
- Hierarchy of Controls and Safe Work Procedures
- Types of Fall Protection Systems
- Fall Arrest Equipment and Components
- Use, Care, Storage, Maintenance and Inspection of all Fall Protection Equipment and Components
- The General Requirements of the Fall Protection Rescue Plan
- Accident / Incident Reporting
Recertification: 3 Years
Course Description:
This course is designed to train participants in the safe work practices and procedures and hazards involved in excavation and trenching operations. It introduces participants to the importance of proper protection systems and the results of failing to follow established procedures. Ensure each worker understands duties and has the skills to safely perform them.
This training does not apply to a trench
- Less than 1.22 m deep
- Into which a worker does not enter
- Where the walls are solid rock
Duration:
4 hours
Who Should Attend:
Persons who wish to or are required to excavate, enter, supervise or co-ordinate a trenching operation.
Section 5(b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act states:
“Without limiting the generality of section 4, an employer…shall, where it is reasonably practicable, provide the information, training and supervision and facilities that are necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of his or her workers.”
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of “Excavation and Trenching” each participant will have an awareness of:
- Cave-ins
- Protection Against Cave-ins
- Pre-excavation Safety Planning
- PPE
- Other Hazards & Safeguards
- Emergency Response Procedures
- Soil Classifications
Course Description:
This course has been designed by St. John Ambulance to train each participant to the Emergency level of first aid. The course will provide the participant with specific knowledge, skills and confidence that will enable them to recognize when first aid is needed, administer first aid at an emergency scene and recognize when more qualified help or medical help is required.
Duration:
8 hours
Who Should Attend:
Anybody who is interested in learning emergency first aid or who is required as a condition of employment to participate in the course. Under the legislation, if more than one but less than 15 workers are on one shift, at least one worker must have a valid emergency first aid certificate. If more than 15 but less than 200 workers are on one shift at least one worker must have a standard first aid certificate and one worker in each group of 25 must have an emergency first aid certificate. If there are 200 or more workers on one shift there must be a first aid attendant and one worker in each group of 25 must have an emergency first aid certificate. Certification must be renewed every three years.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of “Emergency First Aid” each participant will have an awareness of:
- The principles of first aid and emergency scene management
- How to perform a scene survey and a primary survey
- How to recognize and provide first aid for shock, unconsciousness and fainting
- How to recognize breathing emergencies and provide artificial respiration for an adult
- How to recognize choking and provide first aid for a choking adult
- How to recognize major wounds and provide first aid for severe internal and external bleeding and amputations
- Risk factors, preventative health measures and types of cardiovascular disease
- How to recognize a cardiovascular emergency and provide first aid
- How to perform one-rescuer CPR for an adult casualty
- How to recognize and provide first aid for head, spinal and pelvic injuries
- How to prevent eye injuries
- How to provide first aid for several types of eye injuries
- Measures taken to prevent burns
- How to recognize and provide first aid for burns
- How to recognize and provide first aid for a diabetic emergency
- How to recognize and provide first aid for an epileptic seizure
- How to recognize and provide first aid for convulsions in a child
- How to recognize and provide first aid for a severe asthma attack
- How to recognize and provide first aid for a severe allergic reaction
Recertification: 3 Years
Course Description:
This course is for workers that will have to isolate equipment in compliance with industry standards. At the end of the course, the participants will be able to explain how to apply the lockout process.
Duration:
4 hours
Learning Objectives:
- Lockout a piece of equipment, a machine or a system by neutralizing all energy sources.
- Perform a shift change in a safe manner.
- Perform a safe start up without posing any danger to personnel.
- Identify various dangerous energy sources.
- Identify various dangerous substances.
Course Description:
This course is designed to train participants in the fundamentals of confined space entry. It introduces participants to the importance of the knowledge, attitude and skills necessary for certification to enter and work in confined spaces. This course meets the requirements and has been approved by Newfoundland WHSCC and is approved and available in both French and English.
Duration:
16 hours (2 days)
Who Should Attend:
Persons who wish to or are required to perform work in a confined spaces , Supervisors and Safety Personnel
511 (3) (A) NL OHS Regulations- A worker shall not work in a confined space after January 1, 2013 unless he or she has completed a confined space entry program prescribed by the commission.
Prerequisites: Fall Protection (NL WHSCC recognized FPP course)
Learning Objectives:
- The importance of confined space training
- Legislative roles & responsibilities of workplace parties
- Confined Space Entry legislation
- Roles and responsibilities of employers in developing entry plans for confined space work.
- Roles and Responsibilities of persons who are working in confined spaces
- Safety and health hazards of confined spaces
- The recognition, evaluation and control of confined space hazards through the application of hazard assessments
- Hazardous atmospheres and testing procedures
- Control methods for hazards atmospheres, and/or safety and health hazards
- Confined space entry (CSE) work permit system
- The selection, use, care, storage and maintenance of PPE and respiratory protection
- Confined space entry rescue planning
- Accident / Incident reporting, and the basics of accident/incident (A/I) investigation
Recertification: 3 years
Course Description:
This course is designed to train all employees and employers who work at any type of manual lifting how to recognize the risk factors. Up to eight out of ten people suffer with back pain exceedingly painful, difficult to heal and this back pain has an effect on everything you do. Not always one incident often due to years of wear and tear. It is interesting to note from Nl WHSCC 20% of accidents involve the back, 15% of Lost Time injuries are actually back injuries and 9% of all claims are from back injuries
Duration:
4 hours
Who Should Attend:
All workers and supervisors.
Learning Objectives:
- An understand basic anatomy of the back
- How to recognize the risk factors
- How to change or eliminate the risk factors
- How to recognize the common causes of back injury
- How to use proper body mechanics and lifting techniques to prevent injury to the back
- Know what to do if an injury occurs