Fall Protection Training Ontario: Today, we will show you how you can provide the best fall protection training for your staff.

Acute has over 100 years of combined experience with in-house or on-site worker environmental and safety training. We want to help you keep your workers safe.

We’ll explain in detail how the best fall protection training is done by an experienced instructor who will include the right content and give you plenty of hands-on practice with equipment. So, let’s get started.

Fall Protection Training Ontario

For the best Fall Protection Training Ontario has to offer, train with ACUTE

Safety incidents in the workplace cannot always be prevented. However, as an employer, you are required to ensure your staff has the right training for the job. Learn more about how your organization can provide the best fall protection training for your workers:

• By getting the right content
• Having an experienced trainer that can point out risks before they become issues
• By getting plenty of hands-on training using the right equipment

ACUTE provides the best and most hands-on fall protection training to help safeguard your staff from injury and protect employers against regulatory sanctions.

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Testing of Personal Fall Protection Systems

Fall protection is defined as the safe stopping of a person that is already falling, and it is an important topic in ACUTE’s fall protection training. There are many types of personal fall protection systems. Knowing the situations to employ these tools is a foundational step in getting geared up for fall protection. Check out this great video below on fall protection and personal fall protection systems!

A personal fall protection system can protect your workers

Fall protection Training Ontario: Key Challenges and an ACUTE Response

As an employer, you are probably aware of the challenges encountered when providing or sending your staff to receive training. You must navigate these challenges to effectively reap the benefits of your investment.

You Need to Minimize Training Costs
Without proper training, employee injury could result, and simply having “shelf knowledge” may not provide tangible workplace safety. As a result, you could incur additional costs for retraining your staff.

ACUTE has a proven training program and is a certified Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development trainer; our training is so thorough that once your staff has successfully completed our program, they will know how to work safely and will not require retraining.

ACUTE’s trainers are certified by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development

You Need Contextualized Learning
Correlation between the training environment and the workplace is key to translating cognitive knowledge into applied best practices.

ACUTE tailors its fall protection program and delivers training at your workplace. As a result, your staff will be fully capable of safely working in the environment that they will be in on a daily basis.

You Need to Keep Records of Training in Case of a Government Audit
Managing a business creates significant amounts of paperwork and administrative overhead. ACUTE provides record-keeping for courses your employees have taken with our team, free of charge.

You Need Training that Prepares for Unexpected Workplace Incidents
The saying, “you don’t know what you don’t know” rings true, and it is imperative to help staff prepare for scenarios that have not been encountered. ACUTE offers training at our first-class facility to help simulate new scenarios to prepare staff for unexpected falls.

ACUTE has a great training facility where your workers can get hands-on practice

Fall Protection Training – Quick Tips

Fall Protection training should not be confused with Working at Heights training. ACUTE’s Working at Heights (WAH) training course includes many practical components, including fall protection training. If you are looking for WAH and fall protection training, here are some quick tips that you should know.

WAH Is Mandatory for Construction Workers Who Use Fall Equipment:

Ontario Regulation 213/91 – Construction Projects governs construction work, including working at heights. Working At Heights training is mandatory for any construction project workers who use any of the following methods of fall equipment including fall protection systems and more. Click here for more information.

Even if WAH Is not Required It May Still Be Useful:

If WAH training is not required for your job, you may still find it very useful for working in your industry. For example, if you work in industrial, mining, or health care sectors, you may find WAH course content helpful for your field. For these and other settings Fall Protection training may also be beneficial. Speak with your training provider to determine which is best for your workplace.

A Refresher WAH Is Required after 3 Years

WAH training lasts for three years. After that, a refresher training course is required.

You need to take a WAH refresher course after 3 years

You Must be trained on the New WAH Standards

There are new WAH training standards in Ontario. All workers must be trained on new WAH standards by April 1, 2017. However, a 6-month extension has been put in place for experienced workers who have completed fall protection training prior to April 1, 2015.

You Must Take a CPO-Approved WAH Course

Workers cannot take just any WAH/fall protection training. They must complete a training course that is CPO (Chief Prevention Officer)-approved – the course itself must be CPO-approved, as well as the training provider. (Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Source)

You Need to Understand the Fall Prevention Hierarchy

There are many types of fall protection, including guardrails, fall restraint systems, fall protection  systems, and safe work procedures. Understanding fall protection hierarchy is important.

Online Training VS Hands-On

Online fall protection or working at heights training may seem appealing, as it’s easy, convenient, and quick. However, there are many limitations with online training. Learning how you can stay safe on the job is more than just reading the legislation or watching instructional videos. Hands-on training is the best way to keep everyone safe on the job. Here are some facts about online training:

• Online training Gives You Lower Quality Training: Online training has been proven to provide a lower quality of translatable work experience and makes it more difficult for workers to retain the information they’ve learned.
• Online Training May End Up Costing You More: Online working at heights may appear to be quicker and cheaper; but with accidents, injuries, retraining, and rehiring costs; the total cost of training online may end up costing more in the end than hands-on.
• Online training may not be CPO-approved: If you provide or complete training that was not offered by an approved provider, the training is not equivalent and will not meet labour requirements. Your company could face fines, and your professionals will not be adequately trained.

Why Get Fall Protection Training with ACUTE

Acute gives you hands-on training tailored to your industry from experienced instructors

For other great reasons why ACUTE provides exceptional fall prevention training, see here.

See What Our Customers Have Said about ACUTE’s Training:

“ACUTE’s trainers have a passion for the material and care about their clients.”
– Rob, Tank Manufacturing Company

“We have relied on ACUTE for years to train our staff and keep them safe on the job site.”
– Bob, Millwrighting Company

For more testimonials, see here.

ACUTE’s Comprehensive Courses To Meet Your Needs

At ACUTE, we offer a number of fall protection training courses, to meet you where you are:

Fall Prevention Training Course

In this course, we teach you how to identify fall hazards, how to control fall hazards, how to use ladder safety, how to conduct a lanyard inspection, and how to conduct a harness inspection. In addition, the course also covers fall prevention strategies, fall prevention systems, fall protection systems, rescue plans, and safe anchoring.

Training Locations: On-site/ACUTE training facilities
Industries: Industrial Establishments, Mining Operations, Health Care and Residential Facilities sectors, or Non-Construction
Time Required: 1/2 day 4 hours

Learn more about this course – click here

Working At Heights Training Course – Approved by The Chief Prevention Officer of Ontario

In this course, you will learn the working at heights legislation, working at heights hazards, fall prevention strategies and systems, fall protection systems, safe work strategies, and how to select and use the proper fall protection equipment. To view the Ontario working at heights standards and requirements, click here.

Training Locations: ACUTE training facilities
Industry: Construction
Time Required: 1 day 8 hours

Learn more about this course – click here

Hazard Awareness for Scaffold Workers

This program focuses on safe practices when using scaffolds as work platforms. Scaffold use can present many dangers to workers who are unaware of or inattentive to safe scaffold procedures. Despite the dangers, working on a scaffold can be straightforward and safe if users are trained and follow safe assembly, use, and dismantling procedures. The program covers understanding load capacities, anchoring and securing, the use of personal protective equipment, safe use practices, and rescue planning.

Training Locations: On-site/ACUTE training facilities
Industries: Industrial Establishments, Mining Operations, Residential Facilities sectors, and Construction
Time Required: 1/2 day 4 hours

Learn more about this course – click here

Acute Safety & Safety Services is located in Waterloo, Ontario and services customers from the cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Kitchener, London, and Guelph as well as a large list of other cities from across Ontario and North America.

Keep your employees safe with proper training

ACUTE’s Fall Protection Training Ontario: Course Content

For more information about ACUTE’s fall protection and working at heights training course, click here.

Objective: The purpose of working at heights training program is to:

• Strengthen workplace safety culture by elevating the profile and importance of preventing falls from heights.
• Provide workers who may be exposed to the hazard of falling with adequate knowledge about fall hazards and general safety practices to work safely at heights.
• Provide workers who use personal fall protection equipment with sufficient knowledge about its purpose and use; and
• Reduce the number of fall-from-heights incidents, injuries, and fatalities.

Training program topics include:

Working at Heights (Theory Module 3h)

• Working at Heights