Hazard and Risk: Identify, Assess, Control and Evaluate Updated

Identify hazards, assess their risk, control hazards, and evaluate the effectiveness of controls at your workplace

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Single seat:: $109.95 ^*

Format:: e-Course

Language:: English/French

Duration:: 3 hours

Access:

Single Seat (90 days access from date of purchase)

Group Training (multi-seat) (1 year access from date of purchase)

Description

Hazards exist in every workplace, but how do you know which ones have the most potential to harm workers? By identifying hazards at your workplace, you will be better prepared to control or eliminate them and prevent incidents, injuries, property damage and downtime. After all, you can't address issues you don't know about.

This course explores the ongoing cycle of identifying hazards, assessing risk, controlling hazards, and evaluating controls. It covers key concepts, process steps and methods for hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard control.

Topics include:

Identifying hazards
Assessing risk
Controlling hazards
Evaluating controls for effectiveness

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Categorize hazards
Recognize methods of hazard identification
Define risk
Recall good practices of risk assessments
Use a risk matrix
Prioritize hazards for control
Categorize controls into the hierarchy of controls
Recall the hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard control process and methods of control (including the hierarchy of controls)
Determine the effectiveness of control measures

Average time to complete this course is approximately 3 hours.

Target Audience

Management and supervisors
Health and safety committee members
Maintenance and facilities staff

Prerequisite

None.

Certificate of Completion

Upon completion of the course and passing a final, multiple-choice exam, learners will be able to print a certificate of completion.

System Requirements

This course is delivered online. View the minimum system requirements to take this course.

Review Process

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.

VuBiz Partnership

We partnered with Vubiz - an international leader in e-learning development - to create this e-course. Vubiz offers other related e-learning courses that may also be of interest to you. Read about them in the Vubiz Catalogue of e-learning courses.