In Canadian industry supervisors can and do get prosecuted under Occupational Health and Safety Law. Employers have a duty to explain to their supervisors, the provisions of Occupational Health and Safety Law, and why due diligence has special significance for them. Conveying how safety laws work can be confusing and difficult to do, leaving supervisors with more questions than answers, so let this course help clarify some of those questions. By doing so, employers can help satisfy their legal obligation to inform their supervisors of Occupational Health and Safety Law.

Using animation, with a touch of humour, this training will emphasise why it is important for supervisors to understand Occupational Health and Safety Law. The setting is a fictional workplace, where sectors of the company have a great safety culture and in other sectors – well let’s just say there’s an opportunity for improvement.

Learn as Milo, the Lead Occupational Health and Safety Officer, Bellamy Barrier, the Safety Manager, and a handful of supervisors guide learners through the three types of safety laws, and how those laws can affect supervisors. Participants will discover what supervisors need to know to understand their legal duties and do to act duly diligent. This course focuses on being a positive influence at the workplace.

Afterall, being duly diligent is showing respect, not only for yourself, but others as well.

By taking this online Due Diligence for Supervisors training, learners will be able to:

1. Recall three types of occupational health and safety laws
2. Know the meaning of reasonable care
3. Understand how due diligence applies to supervisors
4. Know why there must be progressive discipline when necessary
5. Recognize the importance of documentation and journaling in a due diligence case
6. Understand why training, monitoring, incident investigation, maintenance, and worker’s rights are important
7. Get their ducks in a row

Approximately 90 minutes

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The course is able to be taken three times in efforts to achieve the pass mark.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.