Manager OH&S Certificate

Creating a Respectful Workplace

Employees need to feel good about coming to work each day. A respectful workplace provides that “good feeling” about the workplace as well as contributing to higher productivity from employees. Topics covered in this course include: factors that contribute to a respectful workplace; what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behaviours; and developing strategies to create and/or improve a respectful workplace.

Course duration: 1 day

Due Diligence

What are you doing as a Manager to ensure you are compliant with Occupational Health and Safety Legislation? This course will provide participants with an understanding of the principle of Due Diligence, what is needed to demonstrate Due Diligence, and why Due Diligence is necessary for a legal defense. The objective of a good OH&S Program is to develop Due Diligence as a workplace standard.

Course duration: 1/2 day

Workplace Violence Prevention

A Workplace Violence Prevention Plan is required at Nova Scotia workplaces for which a significant risk of violence is identified through a violence risk assessment. This course will enable participants to: have a better understanding of workplace violence; conduct a Violence Risk Assessment; prepare a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan; reduce the risk of workplace violence; how to improve workplace safety; and what the organization can do to help recover from a violent workplace event.

Course duration: 1 day

Occupational Health & Safety Committees

This course provides participants with information necessary for the establishment and effective functioning of an Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Material covered includes: Roles and Responsibilities of an OH&S Committee and its Members; OH&S Committee Functions, Rules of Procedure; Introduction to Workplace Inspections, Incident Investigations, and OH&S Programs; and much more.

Course duration: 2 days

Internal Responsibility System

The Internal Responsibility System (IRS) is the cornerstone of the Nova Scotia Occupational Health and Safety Act. Primarily, everyone who has any influence on the workplace shares the responsibility of workplace safety.

This course provides discussion on the bases of the IRS; the roles and responsibilities of each of the parties involved from senior level management to front line workers; and how the IRS and an effective Occupational Health and Safety Program go hand in hand.

Course duration: 1/2 day

Occupational Health and Safety Act & Regulations

This course provides an overview of the contents of the Nova Scotia Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations. The objective of this course is to provide business Owners/Managers information as to what is required in order to be in compliance with OHS Legislation. Also covered are the responsibilities and accountabilities of Owners/Managers.