Health and Safety for Managers and Supervisors

Description

This course and its companion guide provide managers and supervisors with the information they need to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses, and to develop a safety culture in the workplace.

Companion Guide

To supplement course learning, you’ll receive a 46-page companion guide, “Health and Safety for Managers and Supervisors,” covering topics included in the course.

This guide is designed as a practical tool you can use while taking the course, allowing you to make notes as you work through each module. It’s also a handy reference, outlining key points, considerations, actions to take, and tips to support you in understanding and fulfilling your health and safety responsibilities. To extend your learning, it provides links to more information and helpful resources on various topics.

The companion guide is available electronically as a PDF for download upon course purchase.

Course topics include:

• Safety principles and risk management
• Occupational health and safety legislation
• Roles, responsibilities, and duties of managers, supervisors and workers
• Managing health and safety, including management systems, risk management, risk assessment, and hazard control
• Occupational health and safety activities such as inspections, investigations, emergency response, and fire safety
• Common hazards, including chemical, ergonomic, physical, psychological, safety and other hazards

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• Understand how applicable occupational health and safety legislation applies in your workplace
• Know your health and safety responsibilities
• Determine ways to manage health and safety
• Identify hazards and conduct a risk assessment
• Take leadership in developing, communicating, and implementing an occupational health and safety program
• Understand consequences of non-compliance
• Exercise due diligence
• Understand your role in inspections, investigations, emergency response, and fire safety
• Understand common hazards
• Understand the role of safe work practices

Target Audience

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Employers
• Occupational health nurses
• Anyone who wants to understand and improve workplace health and safety

Prerequisite

Prior technical knowledge of health and safety is not a requirement. However, familiarity with workplace processes and practices is helpful.

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.