Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps

This training is focused on your health and safety rights and responsibilities as a worker, supervisor, or employer.

It is a general introduction to workplace health and safety. It does not, therefore, replace specific training courses you may need such as Working at Heights or Confined Space Entry training.

What Are The 4 Steps?

Step 1: Get on Board

Why you are important to workplace health and safety and where you fit in the internal responsibility system. How? By outlining your specific roles and responsibilities, and how these relate to the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and employers.

Step 2: Get in the Know

You have the right to know about workplace hazards and how to work safely, using common hazards and WHMIS as examples.
Get informed about workplace health and safety policy and procedures.

WHMIS is one aspect of health and safety in the workplace

Step 3: Get Involved

Examples of ways you can participate in health and safety in their workplace, such as being a role model to your co-workers, becoming a health and safety representative or a joint health and safety committee member, and participating in training.
Find out who your health and safety representative or joint health and safety committee members are by seeing the information posted in your workplace or by asking your supervisor or employer.
Talk to co-workers about safe practices in the workplace.

Step 4: Get More Help

You can ask or go to see your supervisor or employer, health and safety representative or joint health and safety committee member when you need help with health and safety.
Understand that if you believe your health or safety is at risk, you can refuse unsafe work.
Explain that your employer cannot threaten, fire or dismiss you for exercising your health and safety rights or for asking your employer or supervisor to do what OSHA says they must do.
Name other places you can go to get more information or help regarding workplace health and safety, including the health and safety associations, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, Immigration, Training and Skills Develop and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

Worker health and safety is greatly improved through learning and implementing these 4 steps

When To Take This Course

According to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, “Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps should be completed by new workers within the first few days of starting work before being exposed to hazards in the workplace.”

This course isn’t just for new hires, though. It is also for Joint Health and Safety Committee members and any worker who wishes to have a deeper understanding of legislative rights and responsibilities mandated by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps should be taken within a few days of starting your new job

How to Deliver the Training Program

Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps should be completed by new workers within the first few days of starting work and before being exposed to hazards in the workplace.

This training program may be delivered in different ways:

Both the online and in-person methods can be supplemented with discussions with supervisors or employers, reviews of quiz questions, and safety talks in the workplace.

To make sure you understand the material, there are quiz questions at the end of each of the program’s four steps.

Per the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development: “In face-to-face learning, you can ask workers to write down their answers or tell you what they think the correct response is. Discuss the answers that your workers give to help strengthen their understanding. The correct answers to each quiz appear at the back of the worker workbook. The quiz questions will be the same in the e-learning program. You may review these with your workers to reinforce the information.”

For a more extensive course on this topic, sign up for ACUTE’s Worker Basic Occupational Health and Safety Awareness.

Trust ACUTE for Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps

ACUTE helps organizations understand their training challenges while also taking care of the most crucial aspect of a safety program: providing unparalleled tailoring and customer service.

Here are just a few things you can expect when training with ACUTE:

Open Door Instructor-Student Partnership – ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff want to build relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice anytime moving forward.
Serving Your Team and Industry – With a vast array of clients in manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government agencies, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
100 Years of Combined Experience – ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services, and consulting services. With over 100 years of combined experience, our staff offer more than theoretical or abstract ideas. ACUTE offers solutions.
Track Record of Success – ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and passion for training.

What ACUTE Customers Are Saying:

“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.”

– Dante, Environmental Service Company

Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps

Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps