Workplace Safety: Safety and the Young Worker

This is a full day course. The purpose of this course is to enable all participants to understand the Internal Responsibility System (IRS) and due diligence to identify how these affect every person in the workplace. By increasing the awareness and knowledge of the IRS and due diligence as they apply to workplaces, employers, and workers, both employers and workers will be better prepared to meet the challenges of regulatory compliance for occupational health and safety in their workplaces.

Course Rewards:
Everyone has a common interest in avoiding workplace injury and illness. By establishing an effective IRS, employers promote a safe working environment and meet their responsibilities under the law.

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems (WHMIS)

This is a three hour course. Learn the three parts of the WHMIS program: labels, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and worker education. This is a course suitable for all employers and employees. Note that this course does not replace worksite-specific training.

Course Rewards:
Creates long-term healthier, safer work environments.

WHMIS Instructor

This is a two day course. The Northwest Territories and Nunavut Safety Act & Regulations stipulate that employers must train their workers on how to safely handle hazardous materials. This course helps employers fulfill their obligation under the Acts by training a workplace trainer to educate fellow workers. We do not provide worksite-specific training, as this is the employer’s responsibility.

Course Rewards:
To develop, implement, and train workers in generic WHMIS.

Principles of Health and Safety Management

This is a full day course. A health and safety course provides a systematic, organized approach to reducing the human and financial costs of injuries, incidents, and illnesses. The Principles of Health and Safety Management course is designed to help employers develop their own health and safety programs and/or manuals. It covers health and safety policies, hazard assessments, safe work practices, job procedures, personal protective equipment, maintenance programs, training, safety meetings, inspections, emergency preparedness, records, and statistics.

Course Rewards:
To develop, implement, and audit a health and safety program.

Safety Awareness

This is a full day course. Changing the assumption “accidents just happen” to “accidents are preventable” is the beginning of general safety awareness. The Safety Awareness course is designed to inform the worker, supervisor, and employer of their rights and responsibilities for a safe working environment. It will assist them in developing the skills and knowledge necessary to recognize and correct potential workplace hazards.

Course Rewards:
Develop a safe attitude, history, and function of the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission, Legislation, personal protective equipment, noise and hearing loss, eye safety, and respiratory protection.

Incident and Accident Investigation

This is a full day course. The first step to preventing the recurrence of an injury is to identify its cause. This course teaches investigators how to perform a thorough and complete investigation.

Course Rewards:
Discover what incident, injury, illness, loss, and near misses mean within a safety context; why incident investigations are done; the basic causes of incidents; when incident investigations should be done; what the legal requirements are for incident investigations; who should be involved in an incident investigation and what they should be doing; and how to do an incident investigation, including the preparation, planning, observation, interviewing, analysis, and reporting of findings.

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Committee

This is a full day course. An OHS Committee is an integral part of an employer’s efforts to meet his/her legal obligations to provide a safe workplace. This course outlines the steps needed to create and maintain an active and effective OHS Committee.

Course Rewards:
Understand the responsibilities of Occupational Health and Safety Committees.

Ergonomics Awareness

This is a full day course. Learn to recognize repetitive strain injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, sprains, strains, etc. Identify and control or eliminate job demands that lead to repetitive strain injuries through the practical design application or redesign principles to workplace components.

Course Rewards:
Understand repetitive strain injuries (RSI), identify work activities that may result in RSI, identify job demands that lead to RSI, understand the importance of good workplace design (ergonomics), identify basic design and redesign principles, and develop solutions for workplace components based on ergonomic principles.

Internal Responsibility System and Due Diligence

This is a full day course. The purpose of this course is to enable all participants to understand the Internal Responsibility System (IRS) and due diligence to identify how these affect every person in the workplace. By increasing the awareness and knowledge of the IRS and due diligence as they apply to workplaces, employers, and workers, both employers and workers will be better prepared to meet the challenges of regulatory compliance for occupational health and safety in their workplaces.

Course Rewards:
Everyone has a common interest in avoiding workplace injury and illness. By establishing an effective IRS, employers promote a safe working environment and meet their responsibilities under the law.

Claims Management for Employers

This is a full day course. Through early medical intervention, early return-to-work programs, and open communication, employers can minimize injury costs and take steps to reduce injuries in the future. This course is designed to identify the steps employers can take to manage their workers’ claims.

Course Rewards:
What is Claims Management? Why is it so important? What are employers’ responsibilities? Understand claims costs, human costs, hidden costs, principles for successful claims management, responsibilities of the injured worker, the supervisor and the claims manager roles, the return-to-work procedure, and the benefits of a commitment to early intervention.

St. John Ambulance First Aid Training

St. John Ambulance, in partnership with the WSCC, offers subsidized training for businesses to take first aid training.

Businesses can either send their workers to participate in publicly offered courses, or they can arrange a private training session if they have more than six people taking the course. Funding is allocated on a first come, first serve basis. There is also a set amount of funding available for different-sized business categories.

Forms for subsidized training are available through St. John Ambulance and the WSCC.

How do you register for a WSCC safety education course?

It's Easy.

A current schedule of courses can be found on the WSCC website. Follow these instructions to locate the education schedule:

1. Go to www.wcb.nt.ca or www.wcbnunavut.ca;
2. On the left you will find a menu bar. Scroll down to Safety & Education;
3. Scroll over to Safety Education Courses;
4. Click on Schedule; and
5. Contact the number indicated to register.

Mission

Promote workplace safety and care for injured workers.

Vision

To be recognized as a caring, efficient, and service-focused organization and a model and trusted partner in workplace safety.

Values

• Integrity
• Concern for People
• Collaboration and Engagement
• Transparency and Openness