Health and Safety Awareness for Ontario Supervisors Updated

Learn about your health and safety duties as an Ontario supervisor, and your responsibilities under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Single seat:: $15.00

Format:: e-Course

Language:: English/French

Duration:: 1 hour

Access:

Single Seat (90 days access from date of purchase)

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

Description

This course explains your duties as a supervisor regarding health and safety at the workplace. You will learn what Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (the Act) requires of you. The course also outlines how to recognize and address hazards to keep your workers safe.

Topics include:

An overview of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and its regulations
Your role and duties as an Ontario supervisor to maintain a healthy and safe work environment
Recognizing common workplace hazards and assessing their risk to workers
Introducing and evaluating measures to address workplace hazards

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

Use the objectives from the course:

Recognize your role as the supervisor in upholding workers’ three basic rights
Describe the internal responsibility system (IRS), and the responsibilities of the employer, supervisor and worker
Identify common workplace hazards
Describe the basic steps in preventing and controlling workplace hazards

Average time to complete this course is approximately one hour.

Target Audience

This course is for Ontario supervisors to learn about their health and safety responsibilities under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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.

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The CCOHS Difference

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.