Canadian
Health and Safety Virtual University Campus
Please visit our new
Health and Safety dedicated website
click here
for the latest
information on our extensive range of online occupational health and
safety course.
If you are looking
for OSHA specific Health and Safety training, please visit our OSHA
Virtual University Campus. Click here.
Click on each of
these topics to review a detailed course description.
1. WHMIS Training
(for
more info click here)
2. Transportation of Dangerous Goods - Part A
(for
more info click here)
3. Confined Spaces
(for
more info click here)
4. Forklift Safety
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more info click here)
5.
OHS Act Legislative Requirements
(for
more info click here)
6. Joint H & S Committee Terms o f Reference
(for
more info click here)
7. Hazard Recognition and Assessment Training
(for
more info click here)
8. General Safety Courses
- Lockout / Tagout
(for
more info click here)
- Basic Safety Orientation
(for
more info click here)
- Hot Work Permit Procedures
(for
more info click here)
- TES Lockout Procedures
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more info click here)
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Accident Investigation Reporting (for
more info click here)
-
Workplace Inspections (for
more info click here)
If you wish to obtain
a pdf version of our course catalog please
click here.
If you are a corporate
training visitor, please feel free to view the demos but then
contact us by email (click
here) or telephone (416-698-8230) and
we will be pleased to discuss potential corporate rates based on the
volume of subscriptions you wish to purchase.
All
prices are in US Dollars
Course Descriptions
WHMIS Training
This
course is designed for workers who have to handle hazardous products
in workplaces. This course will help workers safely manage hazardous
products to ensure their safety and health. The Workplace Hazardous
Materials Information System (WHMIS) is a Canada-wide system that
has been designed to provide employers and workers guidelines to
identify and safely manage hazardous workplace materials. It is
legislated by both the federal and provincial jurisdictions and it
emphasizes the fact that workers have the right to know. Under this
system, employers and suppliers can provide information regarding
hazardous materials in three ways: 1. Labels on containers of all
hazardous materials 2. Materials safety data sheets (MSDS) providing
detailed hazard and precautionary information about all materials
3.Worker education programs explaining how to use the hazardous
material information.
Transportation of Dangerous Goods - Part A
This
course is intended for all persons Handling, Offering and
Transporting Dangerous Goods in Canada Dangerous Goods are those
products and substances classified as dangerous by federal and
provincial legislation. Transport of these products by air, marine,
rail, and road is regulated under the federal Transport of Dangerous
Goods Act, 1992. The safe handling and transportation regulations
require the proper signs and labels to be used to identify all
dangerous goods. The TDG Clear Language Regulations requires that
any person who handles, offers for transport, or transports
dangerous goods must be adequately trained and hold a training
certificate. An employer must not allow an employee to handle such
goods unless he/she is adequately trained to do so.
Confined Spaces
Entry
into tanks and other confined spaces by workers is necessary for
many industrial operations. From experience, it is well known that
entry into such confined spaces may present a hazard to the worker.
This course is designed to create awareness of hazards, precautions,
and the regulations associated with confined spaces; it will be
especially helpful for those workers whose jobs are related to
permit required confined spaces. The learning objectives are to
Understand confined spaces and their types, Comprehend the
responsibilities of the employers and workers , Explore the major
provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act , Recognize
hazards associated with permit-required confined spaces and their
precautions. Learn about ventilation, work permits, safety
equipment, and industrial ovens, Look at the waste water hazards/
precautions (MSDS).
Forklift Safety
This
course is designed for private personnel who want to enhance the
safe operation of power industrial trucks in the workplace. Topics
include an overview of safety standards for safe operations of
Industrial trucks. The course covers the topics such as, importance
of industrial power truck safety, industrial power truck operating
training guidelines, and classifications of industrial power trucks.
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Occupational
Health and Safety Act Legislative Requirements
This
On-Line Occupational Health and Safety Course has been designed to
help employers and other persons to be in compliance with the
Industrial and Construction Act and Regulations, as set out by the
Ministry of Labour. This course will when completed give you a full
understanding of your responsibilities when acting as employer,
contractor, subcontractor, supervisor, owner, supplier, licensee,
officer of a corporation and workers. By the end of this course
participants will provide the student with a complete understanding
of your responsibilities when acting as employer, contractor,
subcontractor, supervisor, owner, supplier, and licensee, officer of
a corporation or as a worker.
Joint H & S Committee Terms of Reference
This
course is designed to provide understanding of the legislative
requirements for the establishment of a Joint Health and Safety
Committee. Moreover, it is design to understand the written terms
of reference that clearly define its purposes, roles, power, and
responsibilities. In order to work effectively, the Joint Health and
safety committee’s role must be clearly defined, understood and
accepted. Detailed terms of reference that set the mandate,
structure and functions of the JHSC ensure that its important work
of internally auditing the company health and safety system can be
done. The course will help you understand the written terms of
reference that clearly define its purposes, roles, power, and
responsibilities
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Hazard Recognition and Assessment Training
This
course is designed to provide basic information regarding hazards.
The course revolves again vital topics such as hazard recognition,
hazard assessment, tools for recognizing hazard, task and process
analysis, management of hazard assessment, what the law says
regarding hazard in a workplace, etc. Hazards are broken down into
two types, Health and Safety.
General Safety Courses
- Lockout / Tagout
This course has been designed to provide information to employees
about what lockout and tagout refers to, the general requirements
for lockout and tagout devices during servicing and maintenance of
machines or equipment, the purpose of lockout and tagout procedures
and energy control programs and the need for effective employee
training and communication in the workplace.
The learning objectives of the course is to Understand key
components of the lockout/tagout standard, Understand the purpose
and elements of an energy control program, Understand types and
responsibilities of people involved with lockout/ tagout.,
Understand elements that must be included in energy control
procedures, Learn the training and inspection requirements, learn
steps to safely apply energy shutdown, Understand the basic
requirements for lockout/ tagout devices
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- Basic Safety Orientation
Employees may be exposed to many safety and health hazards while on
the job. These include chemical hazards, fire hazards, electrical
hazards, confined space hazards, etc. This course aims to present an
overview of some basic workplace hazards and how employees can
protect themselves from them.
- Hot Work Permit Procedures
The
course is designed to enable you to understand serious hazards in
“special” work circumstances. The application of this procedure is
intended to cover: work which contains risk of fire or explosion,
work which may pose a threat, or work which poses the threat of
injury/damage/loss to Company personnel, product, or property. This
course covers the procedures required to be followed to issue the
hot work permit and details out the responsibilities for the
manager, supervisor and the worker involved. This course is a PDF
flash course that includes an online quiz.
- TES Lockout Procedures
This
course is designed to inform employees about the requirements for
lockout during servicing and maintenance of machine or equipment.
Also, covered are the requirements of the lockout standard
procedures for the applications of locks and tags. Indentifying the
correct lockout procedures and explain the lockout procedure
sequence.
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Accident Investigation Reporting
The
focus of the program is to perform analysis, and not to find fault.
The course is developed to educate investigators about the process
of Accident investigation and reporting. The lessons give overview
of Accident Investigation, Critical Injury/Fatal Investigation and
Roles and Responsibilities. The prime objective of accident
investigation is prevention. Finding the causes of an accident and
taking steps to control or eliminate it can help prevent similar
accidents from happening in the future. Accidents can rarely be
attributed to a single cause. Work environment, job constraints, and
supervisory or worker experience can all play a part. These factors
must be examined to determine what role each had in causing the
accident.
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Workplace Inspections
Regular
workplace inspections are a company's primary tool in accident
prevention. This workplace inspection course outlines the key
questions in workplace inspections including: who does them, when
are they done, why they are done, where are they done and how are
they done. It also includes proper reporting techniques and
follow-up guidelines.
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