This course is designed to help supervisors understand their health and safety roles and responsibilities within the workplace. It ensures supervisors know how to meet their legal obligations, in relation to applicable occupational health and safety legislation, and delves into the challenges and underlying factors that impact occupational health and safety systems.

This course also encourages supervisors to be pro-active in their approach, in order to improve the occupational health and safety system they work within, in order to support themselves, their coworkers, and their workplace at large.

(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.

After completing this course, you will be able to answer these questions:

• What is the supervisor’s role in health and safety?
• Who is responsible and who is accountable for safety?
• What makes a health and safety management system (HSMS) work?
• What does health and safety involve?
• What is the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Regulation and Code?
• What can you do to support your HSMS?

Approximately 2 hours.

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.

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