Young Worker Awareness Program / New Worker Awareness

Course Length - 4 Hours

Young and new workers are particularly vulnerable to workplace injuries and incidents, mostly due to improper or non-existent training.

This course is designed for employees that are new to your workplace.

The goal of this program is to provide young and new workers the knowledge to help them identify workplace risks, understand their rights and responsibilities and to identify and avoid common workplace injuries.

The course is broken down into the following content modules:

• Worker Rights and Responsibilities
• Common Workplace Injuries
• Recognizing and Reporting Hazards
• Injury Reporting
• Question and Answer

Course Material:

Participant Manual, test, record of attendance and wall certificate

Legislative Reference:

Occupational Health and Safety Act s. 25(2)(a)

25(2)Without limiting the strict duty imposed by subsection (1), an employer shall,

(a)provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker;