Health and Safety Ontario: Employers’ Responsibilities
Health and Safety Ontario: According to Ontario’s Occupational Health & Safety Act (OHSA), employers are responsible to:
Provide your workers with proper health and safety training: You are required to give your workers the appropriate type of training that will enable them to do their jobs safely.
Provide your workers with information on hazards: You need to make sure that your workers are advised of any hazards they may be presented with in the workplace.
Provide your workers with a safe workplace as well as safe work: You must take all reasonable precautions to ensure that all of your workers are protected from illness and/or injury.
Provide your workers with proper safety equipment: You also need to make sure that your workers have the safety equipment they need and that they are trained to use it properly.
Have worker representation for health and safety: If you employ more than 20 workers, have a construction project with more than 20 workers that is going to take longer than 3 months, or you handle a designated substance, they you need to set up a Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC).
If you have less than 20 employees but more than 5, then you need to appoint a health and safety representative.
Post the Occupational Health & Safety Act: You also need to post the Occupational Health & Safety Act in your workplace along with WSIB’s poster called “In Case of Injury at Work.”
Source: WSIB
Health and Safety Ontario: Get the Best Training from ACUTE!
Health and Safety Ontario: Some of the Main Courses ACUTE Offers
ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services, and consulting services. We offer a wide range of necessary training to help you keep your workers safe. Here is a selection of the main courses we offer. For a full listing of courses, click here.
Working at Heights
ACUTE’s Working at Heights training program has been approved by the Chief Prevention Officer under the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development’s Working at Heights Training Program Standard and the Working at Heights Training Provider Standard.
The ACUTE Working at Heights training provides theory and hands on practical training and evaluation facilitated by highly skilled and competent instructors.
Working at Heights Refresher
A Working At Heights refresher course must be taken every 3 years in order to remain MLITSD compliant. The refresher course coverts the Working at Heights practical 4 hour module.
Any person who has completed a previous 8 hour Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development’s Chief Prevention Officer Approved Working At Heights course and has not taken the refresher course in 3 years MUST enroll in this training program to remain compliant.
Confined Space Entry Awareness
Many workplaces contain spaces that are confined. Confined spaces are high-risk work areas that have killed workers and would-be rescuers. Very specific rules need to be followed by workers who work in and around these spaces.
This training program will familiarize a participant with the requirements of Ontario Regulation 632/05 – Confined Spaces. Furthermore, the training program is intended to provide entrants, attendants and competent persons the skills and training required to recognize confined space entry risks and how to establish measured and corresponding controls. Participants will have the opportunity to become familiar with, inspect and use Confined Space Entry (CSE), access equipment and air quality instrumentation.
Confined Space Rescue
This training program builds on the content of the Confined Space Entry Awareness course to train participants on the safety considerations and how to safely perform a rescue from a confined space.
Confined Space Rescue Training is essential for employers, supervisors and workers who may be involved with planning or implementing a confined space rescue plan in their workplace. Confined space Attendants and Entry Rescuers will find this course beneficial.
Elevating Work Platforms
Elevating Work Platforms (EWPs) such as scissor lifts and boom lifts can be safe solutions to working at height challenges. Unfortunately, lack of training, improper use and defective equipment has led to serious incidents involving workers in Ontario.
The EWP course has been constructed to prepare operators for the safe use of EWPs. The theory module covers all classes of EWPs, while the practical module covers only the type of EWP used in the participant`s workplace.
40 Hour Hazwoper
This training program covers the requirements of the OSHA HAZWOPER standard (29CFR 1910.120). This standard sets out the minimum training requirements for site workers on hazardous waste sites, environmental remediation and emergency projects in the United States of America.
The quality and comprehensive nature of this standard make it applicable and attractive to both employers and workers who work at Canadian workplaces that contain environmental contamination or hazardous materials.
“At the end of the day we want to make sure our clients go home safe and sound to their families, that’s what we do.”
– President and co-owner of ACUTE, Ron Campbell.
“We have used Acute Environmental & Safety Services Inc. for many years and our personnel always come back well trained, energized and bringing lots of ideas. They are provided with substantial and in-depth knowledge together with challenging opportunities to put into practice what they have learned into our field operations.”
