- 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
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About Industrial Safety Trainers
We at Industrial Safety Trainers believe that we can make a difference. We provide training and consulting services that will change the way workers look at safety in the workplace. We offer a very unique way of training; a discussion based method of learning. Our training team is a highly skilled group of certified professionals with a wealth of industry experience and work related background but most importantly, they are passionate about safety training. Our support staff strives to understand our client realities and through collaboration and purposeful listening ensures facilitation of each specific training or consulting request. Each team member works tirelessly to make the registration process for training courses easy and enjoyable.
We operate offices out of Barrie and Ottawa. Industrial Safety Trainers is becoming one of the largest training providers in Canada. Training can take place at a variety of different training venues such as our state of the art mobile training center called the Safety Bus, our conference centers located at either our head office in Barrie or our new training centre in Ottawa, along with other locations that we feel are appropriate for training courses to be delivered.
“We believe the goal of making a workplace safe should not be a burden to the employer, it should be easy and affordable. We strive to ensure that our clients are educated about the applicable provincial and federal safety laws and how they should be applied.”