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Aboriginal awareness training assists employers to attract and retain Aboriginal employees by helping the workplace environment to become understanding of Aboriginal people and Canada's history. This training is a critical element in dispelling myths about Aboriginal people, preparing the workplace and building support for increasing Aboriginal people's participation in employment and business opportunities.
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The failure of people, equipment, supplies, or surroundings to behave or react as expected causes most of the accidents. Accident investigations determine how and why these failures occur. By using the information gained through an investigation, a similar or perhaps more disastrous accident may be prevented. Conduct accident investigations with accident prevention in mind. Investigations are NOT to place blame.
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ATVs are used in all types of off-road applications such as farming and industrial use. This course offers safety techniques highlighting best practice in ATV riding. The course also covers protective gear, environmental concerns and local laws. The practical training includes pre-ride inspections, starting and stopping, turning (gradual and quick), hills (stopping, turning around, traversing), emergency stopping and swerving, and riding over obstacles.
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Behavior based safety (BBS) programs are being implemented by more an more organizations. The practice focuses on what people do, analyzes why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do. To be successful, a BBS program must include all employees, which means providing them with the basic understanding of critical behaviors and the policies and procedures for performing observations.
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Commercial vehicles require additional knowledge and skills beyond operating a typical passenger vehicle. This course provides awareness and best practices for various elements of commercial vehicle operation. Recommended for drivers, swampers, and any employees working on sites with heavy commercial vehicle traffic.
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This course discusses the common injuries that occur on a worksite, including musculoskeletal disorders (Ergonomics), back injuries, cuts, scrapes and punctures, and tool injuries. It also discusses best practices to avoid getting hurt.
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Occupational Health and Safety regulations require that any workers who may be required to enter a confined space be provided instruction on potential hazards, as well as the company program for entering and working in a confined space. This course provides the necessary awareness and best practices for entrants, monitoring attendants and rescue personnel.
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Falling loads from cranes pose a severe hazard to operators and nearby workers. Knowing how cranes should be used, and how they should not be used, is critical to crane safety. This course also helps identify common crane hazards and best practices to prevent crane accidents.
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The Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals has a designation (CRSP) that applies broad based safety knowledge to develop systems that will achieve optimum control over hazards and exposures detrimental to people, equipment, material and the environment. This course lists all the CRSP competencies (summary knowledge - mostly available in other SafetySync courses). Available to Premium plan clients only.
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This course addresses the practices and procedures necessary to disable machinery or equipment, thereby preventing the release of hazardous energy while employees perform servicing and maintenance activities. Employees may be exposed to serious physical harm or death if hazardous energy is not properly controlled. Compliance with these standards are required under Occupational Health and Safety regulations.
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Personnel and equipment are at risk when vehicles are required to move. The use of a guide is beneficial in preventing accidents and injuries that could occur due to blind spots, and undetected movement of personnel and equipment. This course focuses on communication between the driver and guide using standard directional signals and rules of conduct.
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Drug and alcohol problems affect employees in industries from manufacturing to information technology, from the boardroom to the shop floor. Drug and alcohol abuse costs North American employers an estimated $134 billion in productivity losses, mostly due to missed work. With a relatively small investment in effective awareness training, employers can reduce costs and help employees.
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All employers are required to identify site-specific hazards that their workers are likely to encounter, as well as provide training on the appropriate safeguards and best practices to avoid incidents. This course covers a number of general site hazards that are typically found on industrial and commercial work sites.
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Is your organization prepared for a health or safety emergency? This course helps your employees understand their roles in various emergency situations, and explains how to prepare, respond and recover from these unexpected, but catastrophic events.
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Many jobs today require workers to work outside, in the elements. This course prepares workers for environmental hazards they are likely to encounter, including extreme weather and wildlife encounters.
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Employees who use hand and power tools are exposed to the hazards of falling, flying, abrasive, and splashing objects, or to harmful dusts, fumes, mists, vapors, or gases. This course will inform workers on how to recognize the hazards associated with the different types of tools and the appropriate safety precautions.
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Falls contribute to countless injuries in the workplace. This course for Health and Safety Professionals, Supervisors and Workers describes the various fall hazards, and explains the impact of falls on a person. It suggests various practices that can modify the work environment to reduce the chance of falls.
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Fatigue can be caused by long hours of work, long hours of physical or mental activity, inadequate rest, excessive stress, and combinations of these factors. This course stresses the importance of being alert at all times and the requirement to be able to exercise clear judgement. It also makes workers aware of the signs and symptoms of fatigue, and explains the best practices to reduce incidents and injuries related to workplace fatigue.
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The course is designed to give employees an awareness of the causes of fire and how to prevent them. Employees will learn how to identify the type of fire and then safely select and use the appropriate fire extinguisher on a small fire. It also presents other fire safety best practices.
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Food Safety Management helps safeguard quality and safety throughout the whole food supply chain including raw and semi-manufactured foodstuffs and final products in all principal food segments. Establishing a food safety management training program is an important step in ensuring control over your food processing environment. [Narrated versions available to AFPA members and affiliates only.]
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Respiratory hazards can often exist at industrial and commercial worksites. These hazards include airborne contaminants, such as dusts, mists, fumes, and gases, or oxygen-deficient atmospheres. This course explains these hazards and provides various practices that help control worker exposure to these contaminants in the air.
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Work sites that involve work in or around excavations and trenches can be dangerous. This course helps all workers recognize the hazards associated with ground disturbance and excavations, and how to control the hazards by administrative, engineering or personal protective measures.
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A successful food safety system requires a thorough understanding of the prerequisite programs (GMP's) and HACCP plan elements. This course will help ensure that the members of your HACCP team have a complete understanding of the requirements of an effective food safety system and of everyone’s role in ensuring its success. [Narrated versions available to AFPA members and affiliates only.]
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Hazards lead to injuries, and they are present in all work environments. This course on Hazard Management enable employees working in the field to develop and increase their understanding of the principles and practices that guide the identification, assessment, prevention and remediation of the wide variety of physical, chemical and biological hazards impacting typical workplaces.
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The OSHA Hazard Communication Standard is designed to protect employees who use hazardous materials on the job. Companies which produce and use hazardous materials must provide their employees with information and training on the proper handling and use of these materials. This course provides an explanation of the 5 key elements: Materials Inventory, Material Safety Data Sheets, Labeling, Training and Written Program.
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This course provides basic training for shippers and carriers on how to transport hazardous materials in accordance with US Department of Transport (DOT) regulations. This introduction video defines hazardous materials and provides guidance to recognize and identify hazardous materials. This general awareness and familiarization course should be supplemented with function specific safety training.
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Health and wellness in the workplace promotes employee attendance, improves morale, and can help save on rising company health insurance costs. Promoting good health and wellness may also reduce workplace accidents and help prevent employee absenteeism. This course provides awareness and best practices to compliment your organization's health and wellness program.
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Operating heavy equipment, including backhoes/excavators, loaders, bulldozers, and tractors, present many dangers on a worksite. Workers on foot can be struck by equipment, usually when it's backing up or changing direction. Equipment can also roll over while on a slope or when equipment is loaded improperly. This course makes workers aware of these hazards, and recommends various best practices to avoid heavy equipment accidents.
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Helicopter Safety and Survival is designed to provide first time and occasional helicopter passengers with a simple but comprehensive safety briefing. This course alerts passengers to the potential dangers of helicopters in a clear and concise manner. The topics covered in this video presentation include flight principles, ground safety, entering and exiting, the main and tail rotor, how to carry and stow tools and equipment, seat belt, intercom use, and emergency procedures and equipment.
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The purpose of this course is to assist carriers and drivers with understanding the Federal Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulation. An increased understanding of the regulations and compliance with legislation will result in fewer collisions thus saving lives, reducing the severity of injuries and the associated costs to society. This course, its quizzes, and the Fatigue Management course combine to satisfy the 4hr training requirement mandated by some provincial regulators.
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Housekeeping plays an important role in reducing injuries in any workplace. Good housekeeping reduces accidents, improves morale and increases work efficiency and effectiveness. This course instructs workers on various housekeeping processes, operations and tasks.
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This course offers the formal instruction component of lift truck training, including operating instructions, warnings, truck controls and instrumentation, load stability, and pedestrian traffic. NOTE: To meet OSHA standards, online instruction must be supplemented with demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee, and evaluation of the operator's performance in the workplace.
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Hazardous materials are often part of our everyday activities in the workplace. Some materials, though important tools, can also be flammable, reactive, corrosive, or toxic. This course ensures that your employees are aware of the risks and how to avoid them. Employees will know how to identify the materials being used, and how to learn how to use them safety. And if an emergency does occur at your workplace, they will be better prepared to respond properly.
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Workers can be injured or killed when struck by standing, walking, or working around mobile equipment that is backing up, turning, or just passing by. The mobile equipment itself can be difficult to operate and unstable, which can also present risks to the drivers themselves. All employees at these sites should be aware of the hazards of various types of mobile equipment, and precautions to take to prevent these accidents.
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Occupational Health and Safety Regulations outline a number of requirements on employers and employees to maintain workplaces that so far as practicable eliminate risks to health and safety. This course for Health and Safety Representatives, Managers, Supervisors and Workers will provide the necessary understanding of the regulations, and will provide knowledge of all stakeholders rights under the legislation.
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This course is designed for Workers who are exposed to workplace hazards. It provides a practical introduction to the most common types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) used to protect against common workplace hazards, such as chemicals, noise and mechanical injury. The basics of PPE are covered, including practical tips for safe use, PPE programs, limitations and legal responsibilities.
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This course provides an explanation of the process for workers to 'Return to Work' after a lost time injury or illness (usually involving WCB). The course describes the various types of workplace accomodations, including modified work.
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This course covers all aspects of vehicle safety. This includes both proper procedures when driving as well as how to deal with adverse conditions and hazards that a employee may encounter while driving.
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Health and Safety communications help employees and others become familiar with a workplace's health and safety program. Orientation ensures that individuals are familiar with the organization's expectations for health and safety, as well as the role that individuals have in the health and safety program. Regular meetings help supervisors, workers, contractors and sub contractors understand and follow appropriate procedures for controlling hazards.
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Supervisors are often the employer's most effective tool at promoting a safety culture and ensuring the health and safety program is carried out on the shop floor or in the field. This course helps supervisors understand their safety responsibilities, not only to meet regulatory requirements, but to raise saifety awareness within the organization. The lessons focus on general techniques and approaches that can be used to recognize and eliminate unsafe work conditions.
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This course provides information you need about operating a snowmobile safely, including transporting, riding, and maintaining snowmobiles, as well as common hazards and potential emergency situations. This material is meant to supplement information provided by the state or province in which you register and/or ride your snowmobile.
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Standard training for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods system for consignors (shippers), consignees (receivers), and carriers (drivers). This course satisfies Transport Canada requirements for standard TDG training.
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Without proper care and maintenance, vehicles can break down. Vehicle failures present many safety risks and can cost considerable time and money to repair. This course introduces Drivers to a practical range of basic skills including inspection, routine maintenance, and replacement of common parts.
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Warehouses, shops, yards and retail stores can present hazards to workers due to the handling and storage of materials. Forklifts and other powered equipment present dangers to pedestrians. Material handling also presents potential risk of injury. This course helps make employees aware of these hazards and provides the precautionary measures to avoid accidents and injuries.
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An introduction to the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System for employees working with dangerous chemicals. WHMIS training is required for all employees who work with, or in proximity to Controlled Products. This course meets the legislated training requirements for most Federal and Provincial workplaces. This generic training may need to be supplemented with training on site-specific products.
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Many industries are required to participate in the Workers Compensation system, ensuring that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with wage replacement and other benefits, eliminating the need for litigation. This course describes the Workers Compensation model, explains the roles of Employers, Workers and the Board. It also outlines the WCB claim process.
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Violence costs businesses in North America more than $3 billion annually from increased health care costs, lost productivity, increased absenteeism and employee turnover. Certain jurisdictions now require all companies to train employees on identifying and eliminating risk factors associated with workplace violence.
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