Health & Safety Awareness for Supervisors (National)

This course is offered anywhere in Ontario
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 50 minutes

This Health & Safety Awareness for Supervisors (National) course is designed to provide Supervisors with a general awareness of their occupational health and safety rights and responsibilities.

A Supervisor can be defined as anyone who “has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker”. The scope and description of Supervisors can vary across Canadian jurisdictions;

This course will enable participants to:

  • Be familiar with the various provincial Occupational Health and Safety Acts
  • Know the basic rights and responsibilities of Employers, Supervisors and workers
  • Understand the role of the Supervisor within the Internal Responsibility System
  • Be aware of the Supervisor’s role in hazard recognition and assessment, risk evaluation and control implementation
  • Understand the value of workplace policies and procedures, training, posters and other preventative measures
  • Be familiar with the various sources of health and safety information in Canadian jurisdictions
  • Understand the position of Supervisor as a role model for healthy and safe work habits