Canadian industry workers can and do get prosecuted under Occupational Health and Safety Law. Employers have a duty to explain to their workers, the provisions of Occupational Health and Safety Law, and why due diligence has special significance for workers. Conveying how safety laws work can be confusing and difficult to do, leaving workers 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 workers of Occupational Health and Safety Law.

Using animation, with a touch of humour, this training will emphasize why it is important for workers 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, guides learners through the three types of safety laws, and how those laws can affect workers. Participants will discover what workers need to know and do to act duly diligent. Not only will learners understand their legal duties, but the legal duties of supervisors and employers as well. This course focuses on being a positive influence at the workplace.

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

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

• Recall three types of occupational health and safety laws
• Understand how due diligence applies to workers
• Associate the duties of others and why there must be progressive discipline when necessary
• Recognize the importance of documentation in a due diligence case
• Review the workers’ rights and how workers can influence one another
• Select ways workers can act duly diligent
• Select various types of precautions
• Understand how JSA information can be used on Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), incident investigations, inspections, and so on.

Approximately 50-60 minutes

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 75% 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.