Health & Safety Committee Training in BC, Alberta and Manitoba

OSG is holding classes on this in Winnipeg, Calgary and British Columbia in April 2012. Why, you might ask?

Well, last year some customers asked us to do it for their branches in BC, AB and MN. We did the classes and got an outstanding reaction from the attendees and their employers. So we decided to do it again, this time with a little more publicity.

You might also question why an Ontario-based business presumes that it can teach anything to western Canadian businesses?

A bit cheeky you might say!

What makes OSG think that we have anything to offer?

Recently we did an analysis across all the provinces and territories and found that although most of them talk about, even require the formation of Health and Safety Committees, only Ontario requires them to be in operation for businesses with more than 5 employees. Not only that but Ontario requires that certain individual members of the committee have to be trained and ‘certified’ – which includes passing a written test set by their Workers Compensation Board, called the WSIB.

In the US OSHA does not require a functioning H&S committee but encourages their use to improve safety.  It does not specify what training anyone should have to serve on the committee. As an interesting aside we also found out that OSHA has no equivalent to our Internal Responsibility System (IRS). The result is that US H&S legislation and regulations are framed very differently to what we have in Canada. To an American the term IRS means something quite different!

As a company Occupational Safety Group has trained over 7,000 students who have passed the WSIB test and gone on to become ‘Certified Members’ of their employers Health & Safety Committee.  We feel that we know what we are doing and can train candidates on best demonstrated practices so that graduates are able to operate effective and efficient safety committees.

The Agenda includes:

• Introduction
• The Internal Responsibility System (IRS)
• OHS Act and Due Diligence for your province
• Joint Health & Safety Committee Training
• Recognizing, Assessing and Controlling Hazards
• Workplace Inspections
• Accident Investigations

Dates for these classes are:

• Vancouver - April 16, 2012
• Calgary      - April 17, 2012
• Winnipeg   - April 18, 2012

Please click here to find out more and register for the course.