For more information about our learning opportunities, please contact our coordinator
Jolene Simpson
778-328-8032
learn@ohsah.bc.ca
Click here to view the fall 2009 classroom workshop schedule.
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Participants will be educated about their roles and responsibilities as JOHSC members and their three basic rights as workers. They will become familiar with the Worker’s Compensation Act, Occupational Health & Safety Regulation, Collective Agreements, and a standard process for Occupational Health & Safety problem-solving. Members learn how to write constructive action plans, recommendations, and committee goals, and will take away templates for committee agendas and minutes.
The value of inspections is clarified in this workshop as participants learn to assess an environment’s health & safety risks, identify hazards and apply principles of control. Attendees will be directed to occupational health & safety resources that will support their post-inspection recommendations. The course concludes with a mock inspection.
Understand when, why and how to conduct a workplace incident investigation in the capacity of the Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee. Participants learn to follow multiple factors in an incident, determine controls to address root causes, and develop recommendations and follow-up plans.
Attendees of this workshop will learn to identify and control home environment risks such as ergonomics, chemical hazards, and working alone. Learn to use OHSAH’s Risk Assessment Tool and Resource Guide or your own tools to apply risk assessment. Participants will have opportunities to network and share solutions with other Home & Community Care sector employees.
Being equipped to recognize and distinguish between anxious, aggressive and violent behaviour is crucial to preventing a violent incident from occurring. Participants will learn effective and compassionate methods of dealing with aggression and increase their awareness and confidence in threatening situations, ultimately mitigating risk of injury for themselves and others.
While healthcare makes up only 10% of the province’s workforce, 40% of compensation claims for violence come from healthcare workers. Joint Committee members will learn how to develop their own workplace Violence Prevention Plan by understanding the legal framework of violence in the workplace. To make your workplace safer, participants will study different kinds of violence, learn to do risk assessments, and practice problem-solving hazards.
Develop your knowledge and skills to better understand the roles and responsibilities of JOHSC Members, and how to effectively perform the role of a JOHSC in the Home and Community Care environment. Become familiar with the WCA, OH&S Regulation and Collective Agreements. Learn how to write recommendations. Participate in discussions about hazards in the home, and programs for ergonomics and violence prevention. Team build and problem-solve, while learning how to conduct effective inspections, incident investigations, and JOSHC meetings.
Develop your knowledge and skills to better understand the roles and responsibilities of JOHSC Members, and how to effectively perform the role of a JOHSC in long term care. Become familiar with the WCA, OH&S Regulation and Collective Agreements. Learn how to write recommendations. Participate in discussions about general hazards, and programs for ergonomics and violence prevention. Team build and problem-solve, while learning how to conduct effective inspections, incident investigations, and JOSHC meetings.
This animated, interactive, web-based course is designed to provide employees, supervisors, and employers with an understanding of the WHMIS core elements that apply to all workplaces where hazardous materials are used. Learn the goals of WHMIS, how to read and understand WHMIS labels, hazard class symbols and MSDS’s, and responsibilities with respect to hazardous products in the workplace.
This online learning course is designed to provide healthcare workers with an understanding of Infection Control Basics and is appropriate for workers in all types of care facilities. Participants can expect to understand the importance of infection control, standard infection control practices, proper waste handling and disposal, various types of isolation and when they should be applied, and the importance of using personal protective barriers such as masks and gloves.
Especially created with new or young workers in mind, this online course will cover the basics of what a new worker needs to know such as health and safety responsibilities of employees and employers, common workplace hazards and strategies to control or mitigate them, and what to do when ill or injured at work. Workers will also learn the importance of asking questions when they are unclear, and of bringing a list of questions to their workplace.
