This online Hazard Identification course will help keep you safe on the job by showing you how to prevent injuries and illness in the workplace through hazard identification, assessment, and control.

(Continuing Education Units)

This course contains 3.25 technical hours.

BCRSP
This course may be eligible for 0.3 CEUs for Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP) – Continuing Professional Development Program (CPD Program) for the purpose of recertification in maintaining the BCRSP certification. See the BCRSP website at www.bcrsp.ca for CPD point criteria.

WWOC Program

Water and Wastewater Operators’ Certification Program (WWOC Program) approved 0.3 CEUs to apply to Operators practicing under the WWOC Program. See www.alberta.ca/water-wastewater-operator-certification.aspx for the Alberta Water and Wastewater Operators’ Certification Guidelines.

• How our beliefs influence our approach to incident prevention
• Types of hazards
• Legislation and regulations
• The three-step process for dealing with hazards
• Organizational hazard identification
• Components of risk assessment
• Evaluating risk
• Assigning values to risk
• Applying controls
• Formal hazard assessments versus field level hazard assessments

Approximately 2 hours

Testing conducted in this online Hazard Identification course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved on the final exam in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved on the first attempt. Supplemental materials for this course can be accessed online.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print. This course is recommended to be retaken every 3 years from the course completion date indicated on the certificate.