Every company should have a safety program to meet legal requirements, satisfy moral obligations and earn financial benefits. In the Principles of Safety Management course, you’ll learn a systematic, organized approach to reducing the human and financial costs of job site incidents.

Principles of Safety Management course content revolves around the actual integration of policies, practices and procedures you need to manage safety within your companies—consistent with the nationally recognized standards of COR™ Certification.

Course Content

• Health and Safety Policy (and responsibilities)
• Hazard Assessment
• Safe Work Practices
• Safe Job Procedures
• Company Rules
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Preventative Maintenance Program
• Training and Communication
• Inspections
• Investigations & Reporting
• Emergency Preparedness
• Statistics and Records
• Legislation

Along with these elements will be a “Manitoba Supplement” section that focuses on specific provincial regulatory compliance issues and provincial safety program directives.

Course Content

The course is divided into four half-day modules supported by lectures, manuals, workshops and regulatory information.

Supervisor’s Role

• Understanding the importance of the supervisor’s role
• Implementation and maintenance of the company safety program
• Manager, supervisor and worker responsibilities
• Corporate culture
• Lead by example
• Legal duties and responsibilities

Inspections

• Purpose and types of inspections
• How to conduct an inspection
• Prioritization of hazards and concerns
• How to interpret, document, and develop recommendations
• Selling recommendations to workers and management

Investigations

• Reasons for investigations
• When to investigate
• Effective guidelines to follow in preparation, conducting and reporting
• Legislative requirements
• Follow up
• Selling recommendations to workers and management

Training

• Reason for training
• Planning and conducting training sessions
• Orientations (three types)
• On-the-job training
• Getting the most out of all your training

Participants will learn the simplicity of the audit and how to use standardized forms. Also, they will gain experience working with the three verification techniques to assist in the conclusion: documentation, observation and interviews.

Course Content

• Introduction (course objectives)
• Auditor and the audit process
• Effective communications
• Report building
• Legislation review
• Workshop audit (classroom) – student must complete an internal audit before receiving certification
• Close out meeting of workshop audit

Train the Trainer: WHMIS teaches participants about WHMIS legislation requirements and provides guidelines for developing a site-specific training program for their company.

Upon successfully completing both parts of the Train the Trainer program, students will be qualified to conduct a generic WHMIS training program and will have the knowledge to develop a basic site-specific program.

Participants will earn a WHMIS certificate of training and will receive credit toward COR™ or SECOR™ Certificate program requirements.