Program Content

• Safety Data Sheet.
• Hazard group while not given a formal definition, GHS divides hazards into three major groups - health, physical and environmental.
• Class is the term used to describe the different types of hazards.
• Category is the name used to describe the sub-sections of classes.
• Signal words are words in the GHS system - Danger and Warning.
Pictogram refers to the GHS symbol on the label and SDS.

This course is in Worker Health and Safety Awareness Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 steps has been developed by the Ministry of Labour to meet their commitment for mandatory health and safety awareness training in the workplace. The other components include an awareness poster, the Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness in 5 Steps workbook and employer guide, and learning modules.

Program Content

• Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps.
• Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness in 5 Steps.
• Workbook and employer guide, and learning modules.
• Awareness poster.

This program is primarily for firms that excavate deeper than 1.2 metres (4 ft). Emphasis is placed on soil types, legislation, and emergency work.

Program Content

• Personal protective equipment
• Review of legislation
• Emergency work
• Determining soil types
• Approved shoring/trenching boxes
• Public safety
• Use of heavy equipment
• Locates
• Underground hazards
• Work area protection
• High/low pressure gas mains

IHSA's Working at Heights—Fundamentals of Fall Prevention is a robust program that meets the Working at Heights Training Standard, the requirements of Regulation 297/13, and is approved by the Chief Prevention Officer.

This course provides workers with the basic fall prevention information they require to work safely in areas where they may be exposed to fall hazards. Participants receive the most up-to-date information with hands-on instruction from industry experts and trained adult educators who are experienced in working at heights.

While Working at Heights is a great starting point, site-specific training is also required. After the in-class session, the employer must train workers on the specific hazards faced and types of equipment used on the job. This course consists of a combination of classroom and hands-on learning activities.

Topics include:

• Common fall hazards
• Fall protection and types of equipment
• Working with ladders, scaffolds, elevating work platforms, and suspended access equipment
• Related laws and regulations

This program shows participants how to identify confined spaces and demonstrate knowledge of legislative requirements and general procedures for confined space entry.

Program Content

• Definition of confined space
• Hazards related to confined spaces
• Types of dangerous atmospheres
• Legal requirements
• Assessment and control options
• Monitoring strategies
• Entry permits and procedures

This program familiarizes participants with the purpose of the legislative requirements and the policies and procedures necessary for compliance. Through an injury investigation workshop, participants will research applicable regulations that, if followed, may have prevented the injury. To reinforce this newly acquired awareness, a practical lockout/tagout and troubleshooting exercise will be conducted on a demonstrator.

Program Content

• Interpretation of the construction and industrial regulations governing lockout/tagout
• Incident investigation workshop to determine which regulations were violated
• Formulation of a policy and procedure to prevent recurrence.
• Exposure to numerous lockout/tagout devices
• Hands-on lockout/tagout procedures

This course provides safe working knowledge for workers who handle ladders. It includes classroom and field work.

Program Content

• Interpretation of relevant regulations and the Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Review of Canada Labour Code Part II
• Review of IHSA’s Telecommunications Utility Safety Rules
• Review of IHSA’s Ladder Safety Safe Practice Guide
• Ladder set-up
• Transportation and storage of ladders
• Ladder inspection and maintenance
• Review of injuries resulting from work on ladders
• Work area protection

This program focuses on safe practices when using scaffolds as work platforms. Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Identify scaffolding hazards,
• Recognize safe scaffold setups,
• Know legislative requirements,
• Use safe practices.

This course gives participants a basic knowledge of the principles related to safe hoisting and rigging practices in the industrial industry. Program Content includes:

• Regulatory requirements
• Hoisting and rigging hazards
• Hardware, wire rope, and slings
• Rigging tools and devices
• Hazard awareness in crane operations

This training program is designed to provide the information and hands-on practice necessary for construction workers to be able to safely connect, activate, and disconnect heaters, torches, and propane-powered equipment of less than 400,000 Btu/h, in accordance with Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) requirements. The record of training expires after three years.

Program Content

• Propane hazards
• Legislation and safe practice
• Connection, activation, and disconnection of propane

This training will define elements of workplace violence that may arise from the nature of the workplace, the type of work or the conditions of work. Measures and procedures to control these risks will be included in the workplace violence training program.

This workplace violence training program will include measures and procedures for:

• Controlling risks identified in the assessment of risks,
• Summoning immediate assistance when workplace violence occurs or is likely to occur, and
• Workers to report incidents of workplace violence

This training program establishes an environmentally safe and proper method of handling and disposing materials which have been spilled or leaked.

Program Content

• Spill Legislation – Regulation 675/98
• Spill Reporting
• Spill Record Keeping
• Spill Recognition techniques
• Identification of material(s) involved
• Spills Containment Procedures for Pressurized Container, Flammable, Corrosive, Oxidizing Materials
• Spills Neutralization and Dilution Techniques
• Clean Up and Disposal
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Communication and Evacuation
• Spills Equipment and Spill Cart

This program is designed to provide comprehensive training for all personnel involved with the handling of hazardous waste. This training program defines practices for handling hazardous waste and specifies individual responsibility for compliance with those procedures. This program will serve as a training manual and can be a referenced in the future.

The format for this program follows training curriculum for easy reference. This training will provide information on federal and provincial government requirements, contingency planning (emergency actions), local facility practices, and related information concerning your total hazardous waste control program.

This program will benefit all workers involved in the handling, offering for transportation or carriage of dangerous goods. Upon completion the participant will be able to prepare, offer and accept dangerous goods, and will also aid in the development of company wide compliance policy and procedures. Successful participants will also be able to meet the required performance demonstration guidelines, and will receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card.

Training modules will include:

• Responsibilities
• Labeling and Marking
• Classification of Dangerous Goods
• Placarding
• Handling and packaging requirements
• Reporting Dangerous Occurrences
• Documentation
• Training Requirements

This program will benefit forklift operators and supervisors in an industrial setting. Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate the knowledge required to operate forklifts in compliance with the Ontario Ministry of Labour’s Competence Standards for Forklift Operators and CSA Standard B335-94, Industrial Lift truck Operator Training.

Successful participants will also be able to meet the required performance demonstration guidelines, and will receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card.

Training modules will include:

• Types of forklifts
• Legislation
• Operating techniques
• Load handling procedures
• Basic hydraulics and pre-operational checks
• Operating hazards and precautions
• Stability and tipping
• Inspection, maintenance, and records
• Capacity and load charts

This program is intended for personnel who operate or supervise the operation of any of the following equipment:

• Non self-propelled elevating work platforms
• Self-propelled elevating work platforms
• Self-propelled boom-type elevating work platforms.

Elevating Work Platforms training provides basic information on elevating work platforms. After the training the employer must provide oral, written, and hands-on instruction in the specific machine the worker will operate and the specific hazards the worker could encounter in the workplace.

Program Content

• Equipment types and selection
• Basic hazards
• Regulations and responsibilities
• Stability and tipping
• Equipment inspection
• Safe practices
• Safe operation (an evaluated demonstration of machine operation skills)

Participants must bring a CSA-certified hard hat, CSA-certified safety boots, CSA-certified full-body harness and lanyard, and eye protection. To receive a program certificate the participant must complete the classroom learning exercises and satisfy the requirements of the hands-on inspection and operation portion of the program.

The objective of this program is to:

• To protect construction workers and the motoring public by regulating traffic flow.
• To stop traffic whenever required by the progress of work. Otherwise to keep traffic moving at reduced speeds to avoid tie-ups and delays.
• To allow construction to proceed safely and efficiently.
• To ensure that public traffic has priority over construction equipment.

Program Content

• Objectives of Traffic Control
• Regulations and responsibilities
• Equipment needed
• Requirements for a good Traffic Control Person
• Daily Preparation
• Parts of a Work Zone

This program is offered for those workers who use power chainsaws for general ground use. The program is designed to help workers ensure safe and proficient operating practices. Participants are required to bring their own CSA approved head, eye/face shield and foot protection, chainsaw/leather work gloves, ear protection and leg protection/chaps. The participant will not be permitted to participate in the course if they do not bring the noted personal protective equipment and tools.

To receive a program certificate and a wallet card, the participant must achieve 75% on the written evaluation and satisfy the requirements of the hands-on maintenance and operation portions of the program.

This two-day course covers all the skills in Emergency First Aid plus scene survey, patient assessment, choking, CPR Skills (Level A,B or C), AED awareness, bleeding wounds, shock, broken bones, poisoning, diabetes, medical conditions, and heat/cold injuries.

Successful candidates receive a Standard First Aid wallet card and wall certificate valid for three years, and a CPR Basic Rescuer (Level C) wallet card for 1 year (public) or 3 years (corporate, non health care).

Bloodborne pathogens are infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include, but are not limited to, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries may expose workers to bloodborne pathogens. Workers in many occupations, including first responders, housekeeping personnel in some industries, nurses and other healthcare personnel, all may be at risk for exposure to bloodborne pathogens.

Program Content

• Define a bloodborne pathogen.
• Describe an Occupational Exposure
• Explain how bloodborne disease is transmitted
• Describe methods of exposure prevention
• Understand and apply Body Substance Isolation Techniques
• Explain appropriate ‘spill’ response for biohazards
• Explain proper disposal of biohazardous wastes
• Explain PPE selection, use, cleaning, & disposal
• Know what vaccinations may be available to you
• Explain the steps you would take if exposed
• Explain documentation requirements
• Recognize and use proper signs and labels used with biohazardous materials

Noise damage is different from most other occupational injuries. It causes no pain or visible trauma (the ears do not bleed when hearing is being damaged), it leaves no visible scars, it is unnoticeable in its earliest stages (workers with noise-induced hearing loss often do not even notice themselves that they are losing hearing until it is too late), it accumulates with each over-exposure, and it generally takes years to diagnose. But Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is permanent and 100% preventable.

Program Content

• Legislation
• Noise and acoustics
• How we hear
• Selecting hearing protection
• Noise Reduction

Asbestos exposure can cause a number of deadly diseases and they can take a long time to develop—up to 40 years. Asbestos-related diseases are the #1 cause of work-related death for people who have worked in Ontario construction. A new asbestos regulation was introduced in November 2005. Regulation 278/05, Designated Substance-Asbestos on Construction Projects and in Buildings and Repair Operations, replaced the old Regulation 838.

Program Content

• History of Asbestos
• Asbestos Types
• Health Effects
• Typical Locations
• Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 Operations
• Decontamination
• Asbestos Waste Management