Workplace Health and Safety Committees

This course is offered anywhere in Ontario
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 55 minutes

* Available in French

According to Part II of the Canada Labour Code, a Workplace Committee is required for each Federal workplace that regularly employs 20 or more employees. The Workplace Committee is comprised of a team of both employees and management representatives who have individual and collective responsibilities to search for facts and solutions to resolve health and safety problems.

This course is designed to address the common roles and responsibilities that committee members will exercise, including:

  • the powers and functions of a Workplace Committee
  • the requirements of Part II of the Canada Labour Code and the Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations as they relate to a Workplace Committee
  • the responsibilities of employees and the union(s)the process to follow in the event of a refusal to work
  • the Internal Complaint Resolution Process.

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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.”