Introduction to Health and Safety for Workers New

Learn about your health and safety roles, responsibilities and rights as a worker in Canada, common workplace hazards, and how to support health and safety activities.

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Single seat:: $19.95

Format:: e-Course

Language:: English/French

Access:

Single Seat (90 days access from date of purchase)

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

Description

Learn about your health and safety roles, responsibilities and rights as a worker in Canada. This course also covers common workplace hazards and risks, plus how to support health and safety activities, including incident reporting, investigation, and emergency preparedness and response.

Topics include:

Health and safety in the workplace
Legal responsibilities
Workers' roles and responsibilities
Workers’ rights
Different types of workplace hazards
Workers' role in identifying hazards and risks
Workers’ role in incident reporting and investigation
Workers’ role in emergency preparedness and response

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

Describe how everyone in the workplace shares responsibility for health and safety
Describe workers’ rights in the workplace
Identify common workplace hazards and risks
Understand your role in incident reporting and emergency preparedness and response

Average time to complete this course is approximately 1 hour.

Target Audience

This course is recommended for all workers in Canada, in every jurisdiction.

We also offer the following related courses for workers and supervisors:

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.