- Language: English
- Duration: 30 minutes
* Available in French
According to Statistics Canada, workplace violence has increased nearly 40% in ten years. An estimated 356,000 violent incidents took place in 2004, of which 71% of them occurred in the workplace. Violence that occurs in the workplace is often perceived as an event that involves a physical altercation; however, workplace violence has broadened to include a situation that is verbal, written or progressing over time. It can also include harassment, threatening behaviour and incidents that do not necessarily occur in the traditional workplace.
This online course outlines the key components of how harassment, violence and domestic abuse can enter the workplace and what workers can do to minimize the risk. It addresses the newest amendments to the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (Bill 168).
The content includes:
- Definitions and legislation related to both workplace harassment and workplace violence
- Strategies to address harassment in the workplace
- Various types of workplace violence
- The impact of violence in the workplace
- Domestic violence in the workplace – what it is and steps to help minimize the risk
- Work refusals – as it relates to workplace violence
This course is also available in three other specific editions:
- Workplace Violence Awareness for Health Care Services
- Workplace Violence Awareness for School Board Employees
- Workplace Violence Awareness for Workers (Ontario)
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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.”