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We provide many different types of sessions to help you train your managers and workers in their responsibilities in the workplace.

Part of your Health & Safety Program implementation must include worker training.

Our training programs are designed to your needs. We pride ourselves in being able to train your employees using your terminology and real work situations that your workers understand.

It is important to us, as it should be important to you and your workers, that the discussions in our training sessions deal with the real life situations that you encounter everyday.

Prior to providing a training session for our clients it is important that we do a brief evaluation of your operation to understand your corporate philosophy and to become famlliar with the facilities.

We have seminars, (usually two to four hours), that we provide at a standard rate of $100.00 per classroom hour plus expenses and of course applicable taxes. It is usual to run these seminars with classes of up to 20 participants but we are quite willing to negotiate different parameters. All seminar participants recieve a Certificate of Attendance upon completion.

SEMINARS

1. Due Diligence - Supervisors, Managers and Owners 2. Occupational Health & Safety Act Overview 3. The Effective Joint Health & Safety Committee 4. Planned Workplace Inspection 5. Accident Investigation 6. Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) 7. Claims Management 8. Winter and Summer Groundskeeping 9. Housekeeping Safety 10. Cuts and Burns

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Are you meeting your legislative requirements for DUE DILIGENCE?

Have you ensured that you and all your managers and supervisors are taking "every reasonable precaution" as required in the Act?

Make sure that you are, book now, as this session is something that you and your managers should attend. The presentation discusses the obligations of the employer to ensure that all the workplace participants have met and continue to meet the criteria of DUE DILIGENCE.

The session shows you how to REDUCE YOUR RISK and how to ensure that you are doing everything reasonable to ensure the safety of your workers and managers.

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As a follow up to the Due Diligence seminar, the Occupational Health and Safety Act Overview provides the participant with a general understanding of the formatting of the Act and details the major components of the Act.

This seminar is recommended for all Owners, Managers, Supervisors and Joint Health and Safety Committee Worker Members. The participant will learn how to access various parts of the Act and will learn how to read the Act. This knowledge will provide the managers and the workers with a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all the workplace participants.

The seminar also provides an opportunity for the participants to spend some time researching some of the requirements of the Act and the Regulations. The Seminar covers some parts of Regulation 851 (The Industrial Regulation) and covers the Critical Injury Regulation - Reg 834.

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The Effective Joint Health and Safety Committee(JH&SC) seminar is useful to the Committee Members, Worker Safety Representatives and the Management Team. This session provides you and your workforce with a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the JH&SC. It defines the various responsibilities and ties back to the session on the Act.

The seminar provides those on the committee or those working as a Safety Representative with the knowledge to carry out their duties on the Committee in an efficient and cost effective manner. We believe that the committee must be productive and cost effective.

We promote the implementation of a TERMS of REFERENCE for the committee that is approved both by the Committee and the managemnet team. It is imperative that their be an understanding between the parties. If everyone understands why the committee is functioning, and if this is a productive function, then the workplace benefits through the elimination of lost time and first aid accidents.

The session covers the makeup of the committee, the roles, of the various members, the functions and powers of the Committee, the development of an agenda, and leads into the process of Workplace Inspection and Accident Investigation

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Planned Workplace Inspection is a seminar that provides the JH&SC and the management team with a clear understanding of how and why a Workplace Inspection is done.

This seminar is essential to the effective functioning of the JH&SC and is effective for all Managers and Supervisors, as the methods used are effective for anyone who is required to complete a workplace audit. The methods may even be used in situations that are beyond the scope of a direct Safety inspection.

This seminar explores the process of Workplace Inspection. We cover the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW of Workplace Inspection, and where possible, the participants are given a hands on demonstration of the process of inspection by doing an inspection in their workplace.

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Accident Investigation takes Health and Safety to the next level. A comprehensive Accident Investigation program ensures that the workplace participants gain from the unfortunate effects of an accident. One only has to listen to the news to know that the investigation process after the accident is crucial to determing how to prevent future occurances.

This seminar is effective for the management team and the JH&SC as it allows everyone in the workplace to understand why an Accident Investigation program is so important.

This seminar looks at the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW of Accident Investigation. The participants will be given an opportunity to investigate an accident and to come up with recommendations to eliminate a similar accident in the future.

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This seminar is designed for your workplace to meet the minimum requirements for generic WHMIS training. Most employers will use this seminar to intoduce new workers, and to refresh existing workers in their responsibilities in understanding WHMIS.

This WHMIS program is designed as an in house training program that uses your hazardous materials as the foundation of the program. To meet this criteria we generally meet with one or two of your key people to evaluate the worksite to determine the range and complexity of the hazardous materials. This process aids us in modifying the WHMIS program to meet your needs.

The WHMIS program discusses Legislation, Hazardous Materials, Symbols, Labels, Material Safety Data Sheets, Routes of Entry and Exemptions from the WHMIS legislation. The Seminar is of interest to all employees as it also includes information on Domestic Products that your employees will find useful while away from the workplace.

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Managing your claims is a fundamental way to reduce your Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) costs.

You must have a comprehensive program that ensures that you know what is occuring with your claims at all times.

Learn how to work with the WSIB and understand what you can do to keep your costs down. We will provide you with the tools to do the job right.

The session discusses how to set up a Monitoring Program, Who to Contact, Record Keeping, Appeals, Fraud Investigation and provides you with a Resource that you can use in the future.

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Groundskeeping is an important job for employees in all kinds of workplaces. Learning how to work safely in the groundskeeping environment requires an understanding of how to use the tools of the trade.

This seminar provides participants with an overview of the hazards of summer or winter groundskeeping, including equipment and processes.

Large equipment, small equipment, fire safety, hearing protection, chemical safety and back safety are covered as the participants learn ways in which they can ensure their continued safety on the job

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This session is designed for workers in the Hospitality industry. It is recommended for all housekeeping staff.

This seminar is a very interactive session that highlights the most common injuries and accidents associated with the cleaning and makeup of rooms.

Using video and classroom participation, the partiocipants are introduced to the right way to wotk in their workplace. There is a strong emphasis on prevention which includes a refresher on the correct use of cleaning chemicals and personal protective clothing.

Prior to conducting this seminar we ensure that we understand the corporate philosophy by meeting with the manager and discussing the approved process in your workplace.

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This session has been devloped as an example of the kind of program that can be used to target specific types of hazards in industry.

Cuts and Burns was chosen as an industry wide issue as uts and Burns are all too common. Sadly for many Cuts and Burns are seen as just being part of the job.

In reality Cuts and Burns can be prevented. To accomplish this we must first clearly identify the extent of the problem and then put controls in place to eliminate the accidents.

This session gives the Managers and workers the tools to effectively identify the areas of concern and arrive at conclusive methods to eliminate the Cuts and Burns.

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