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OHSAH offers many educational training opportunities. Provided below are the course materials used by OHSAH's Healthcare Education & Learning Program (HELP). All materials are available to download.


Joint Committee Boot Camp

  • Increase your familiarity with the WC Act and OH&S regulation.
  • Clarify your roles and responsibilities as a joint OH&S Committee member.
  • Learn how to run effective meetings, write action plans, and develop recommendations.
  • Understand the basics of hazard identification and risk assessment.
  • Become familiar with the steps of successful investigations and inspections.

Hazard Risks + Inspections

  • Understand the basics of hazard identification and risk assessment.
  • Discover the reasons for and the purpose of conducting an inspection.
  • Learn how to conduct a "risk assessment".
  • Learn how to conduct an inspection at your workplace, wherever it is.

Incident Investigation

  • Learn when, why, and how to conduct an investigation.
  • Understand your JOHS Committee's responsibilities in investigation.
  • Understand and apply the OH&S regulation to investigations.
  • Learn the steps of a successful investigation.

Violence Prevention Planning

  • Understand OH&S regulations regarding violence in the workplace.
  • Learn how to do a violence risk assessment.
  • Learn how to prepare a written violence prevention action plan.

Management of Aggressive Behavior

  • Recognize anxious, aggressive, and violent behavior.
  • Apply effective and compassionate methods to deal with aggressive people.
  • Gain awareness and increase your confidence and skills to help avoid injury.
  • Think and react successfully in threatening situations.

Last Updated: July 4, 2008.