WORKERS HEALTH & SAFETY CENTRE Workers Health & Safety Centre. As Ontario’s designated health and safety training centre, we provide high quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors and employers in workplaces of every size, sector and region of the province. HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

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PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer WHMIS training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) Before using PPE, employers should first work with joint health and safety committees, worker health and safety representatives (and union reps where applicable) to examine all the ways in which workers on site may be FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham RESPIRATORY AND EYE PROTECTION AT WORK Public health experts agree the first line of defense against COVID-19 is social distancing (at least two metre distance from anyone). Also essential is personal and environmental hygiene, WORKERS HEALTH & SAFETY CENTRE Workers Health & Safety Centre. As Ontario’s designated health and safety training centre, we provide high quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors and employers in workplaces of every size, sector and region of the province. HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

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WHMIS TRAINING

PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer WHMIS training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) Before using PPE, employers should first work with joint health and safety committees, worker health and safety representatives (and union reps where applicable) to examine all the ways in which workers on site may be FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham RESPIRATORY AND EYE PROTECTION AT WORK Public health experts agree the first line of defense against COVID-19 is social distancing (at least two metre distance from anyone). Also essential is personal and environmental hygiene, WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you WORKING AT HEIGHTS TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: We are now scheduling a limited number of in-person Working at Heights training courses. Register early to ensure your spot. Be assured, we are taking every precaution to combat COVID-19 transmission and safeguard participants and instructors in our classrooms. For those who successfully completed Working at Heights (WAH) training between February 28 and August 31, 2017, WHSC CERTIFICATION PART II TRAINING INCLUDES NEW SAFETY To help joint health and safety committees (JHSC) and their workplaces tackle safety hazards, WHSC has significantly updated its three-hour Safety Hazards training module and is incorporating it into its JHSC Certification Part II general stream FOR WORKERS: TRANSLATED RESOURCES For immigrant workers, communication challenges can be directly related to language barriers. Here in Ontario employers are required to post a copy of the Act and any explanatory material prepared by the Ministry of Labour, in both English and the majority language of the workplace, outlining the rights and duties of workers. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) has translated into 16 JOB POSTING OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST June 9, 2021 Page 1 of 2. JOB POSTING . OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST . Location: Markham Office, 675 Cochrane Dr. Suite 710, East Tower, Markham, ON, L3R 0B8 Wage: Schedule 2 employee as defined in the Collective Agreement between COPE 343 and WHSC. Wage per week: $2,011.82 . The Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) requires a full -time Occupational Hygienist . SUPERVISOR HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING Supervisor Health and Safety Training cont’d www.whsc.on.ca • 1-888-869-7950 TRAINING THE RIGHT THING. THE RIGHT WAY. cope:343 11/14 NOTE: This program is also available online through WHSC’s e-class. Awareness Training for Supervisors Program Duration: 3 hours VERSION 1.0 BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY Behaviour-Based Safety: the blame game An entire department is given bingo cards. The game continues until someone in that department

reports a work

VERSION 1 ELECTRICAL ARC SAFETY Published by the Workers Health & Safety Centre 15 Gervais Drive, Suite 802 Toronto, Ontario M3C 1Y8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Fax: 416-441-1043 Toll free (Toronto): 1-888-869-7950 HARASSMENT WIDESPREAD IN WORKPLACES, FINDS STATISTICS A recent report adds to a growing body of evidence showing harassment in Canadian workplaces is in need of workplace interventions and regulatory enforcement. Conducted by Statistics Canada this report, using survey data from 9,000 respondents living in the 10 provinces aged 15 to 64 who worked for pay in 2016, found almost one in five women had been harassed at work at some point WORKERS HEALTH & SAFETY CENTRE Workers Health & Safety Centre. As Ontario’s designated health and safety training centre, we provide high quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors and employers in workplaces of every size, sector and region of the province. HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

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WHMIS TRAINING

PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer WHMIS training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) Before using PPE, employers should first work with joint health and safety committees, worker health and safety representatives (and union reps where applicable) to examine all the ways in which workers on site may be FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham RESPIRATORY AND EYE PROTECTION AT WORK Public health experts agree the first line of defense against COVID-19 is social distancing (at least two metre distance from anyone). Also essential is personal and environmental hygiene, WORKERS HEALTH & SAFETY CENTRE Workers Health & Safety Centre. As Ontario’s designated health and safety training centre, we provide high quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors and employers in workplaces of every size, sector and region of the province. HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

interactive

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PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer WHMIS training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) Before using PPE, employers should first work with joint health and safety committees, worker health and safety representatives (and union reps where applicable) to examine all the ways in which workers on site may be FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham RESPIRATORY AND EYE PROTECTION AT WORK Public health experts agree the first line of defense against COVID-19 is social distancing (at least two metre distance from anyone). Also essential is personal and environmental hygiene, WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you WORKING AT HEIGHTS TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: We are now scheduling a limited number of in-person Working at Heights training courses. Register early to ensure your spot. Be assured, we are taking every precaution to combat COVID-19 transmission and safeguard participants and instructors in our classrooms. For those who successfully completed Working at Heights (WAH) training between February 28 and August 31, 2017, WHSC CERTIFICATION PART II TRAINING INCLUDES NEW SAFETY To help joint health and safety committees (JHSC) and their workplaces tackle safety hazards, WHSC has significantly updated its three-hour Safety Hazards training module and is incorporating it into its JHSC Certification Part II general stream FOR WORKERS: TRANSLATED RESOURCES For immigrant workers, communication challenges can be directly related to language barriers. Here in Ontario employers are required to post a copy of the Act and any explanatory material prepared by the Ministry of Labour, in both English and the majority language of the workplace, outlining the rights and duties of workers. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) has translated into 16 JOB POSTING OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST June 9, 2021 Page 1 of 2. JOB POSTING . OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST . Location: Markham Office, 675 Cochrane Dr. Suite 710, East Tower, Markham, ON, L3R 0B8 Wage: Schedule 2 employee as defined in the Collective Agreement between COPE 343 and WHSC. Wage per week: $2,011.82 . The Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) requires a full -time Occupational Hygienist . SUPERVISOR HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING Supervisor Health and Safety Training cont’d www.whsc.on.ca • 1-888-869-7950 TRAINING THE RIGHT THING. THE RIGHT WAY. cope:343 11/14 NOTE: This program is also available online through WHSC’s e-class. Awareness Training for Supervisors Program Duration: 3 hours VERSION 1.0 BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY Behaviour-Based Safety: the blame game An entire department is given bingo cards. The game continues until someone in that department

reports a work

VERSION 1 ELECTRICAL ARC SAFETY Published by the Workers Health & Safety Centre 15 Gervais Drive, Suite 802 Toronto, Ontario M3C 1Y8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Fax: 416-441-1043 Toll free (Toronto): 1-888-869-7950 HARASSMENT WIDESPREAD IN WORKPLACES, FINDS STATISTICS A recent report adds to a growing body of evidence showing harassment in Canadian workplaces is in need of workplace interventions and regulatory enforcement. Conducted by Statistics Canada this report, using survey data from 9,000 respondents living in the 10 provinces aged 15 to 64 who worked for pay in 2016, found almost one in five women had been harassed at work at some point JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

interactive

WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines.

ERGONOMIC RESOURCES

Entitled, “Making the Case for MSD Prevention”, the Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) offers a series of fact sheets to help workplace reps effectively build support for MSD prevention.An Economics of Ergonomics fact sheet provides evidence-based support for ergonomic interventions. Three workplace-specific case studies document successful MSD prevention efforts and demonstrate the JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

interactive

WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD RESOURCES The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) publishes and updates single sheet bulletins helping to raise awareness around specific occupational hazards or issues. We have developed a complete library of more than 40 hazard resource lines.

ERGONOMIC RESOURCES

Entitled, “Making the Case for MSD Prevention”, the Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) offers a series of fact sheets to help workplace reps effectively build support for MSD prevention.An Economics of Ergonomics fact sheet provides evidence-based support for ergonomic interventions. Three workplace-specific case studies document successful MSD prevention efforts and demonstrate the ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham

WHMIS TRAINING

PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer WHMIS training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you HEALTH AND SAFETY POSTERS Legal rights and duties are best learned through quality training. But reminders posted in your workplace and/or community can help. In addition to a wide range of comprehensive training programs, the Workers Health & Safety Centre provides information resources in a variety of formats, including three popular posters providing workers with a basic awareness of their three health and safety “RIGHT TO DISCONNECT” FROM WORK HAS MAJOR SUPPORT, SAYS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS Confronting COVID-19 Conducting effective WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS Ontario’s Ministry of Labour tells us, “While the COVID-19 situation is changing rapidly, the legislation and regulations used to govern Ontario’s workplaces are not.” Consequently, as ever, under

Ontario’s

HEALTH CANADA AND U.S. EPA ASSESSMENTS 3 Li RWH, Lipszyc JC, Prasad S, Tarlo SM.Work-related asthma from cleaning agents versus other agents. Occup Med (Lond). 2018;68(9):587-592. 4 Dumas O, Varraso R, Boggs KM, et al. Association of Occupational Exposure to Disinfectants With Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among US Female Nurses. VERSION 1.0 BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY Behaviour-Based Safety: the blame game An entire department is given bingo cards. The game continues until someone in that department

reports a work

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interactive

WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham WORKERS HEALTH & SAFETY CENTRE Workers Health & Safety Centre. As Ontario’s designated health and safety training centre, we provide high quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors and employers in workplaces of every size, sector and region of the province. HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions ONLINE HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer occupational health and safety training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.For now, these, Working at Heights training and our regular online E-Class courses are the only WHSC-scheduled training options available. To sign up for any one of our virtual classrooms or regular JHSC CERTIFICATION TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer JHSC Certification training in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in

interactive

WHSC--LOGIN OR REGISTER Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca Executive Director: Dave Killham HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COURSES PLEASE NOTE: Given the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, WHSC has recently innovated to offer training essentials in live, real-time virtual classrooms.All that is required is a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a functioning camera and audio. So equipped, participants learn from a WHSC-qualified instructor alongside other remote learners in interactive sessions HEALTH AND SAFETY RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS If you own or operate a business, you manage competing demands for your time and resources. Juggling priorities means you may not be abreast of all of your legal responsibilities as an employer, including workplace health and safety requirements. The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) can help. Our trusted and proven information and training resources will keep you current and help you WHSC--RESOURCES--WEBSITE LINKS—HEALTH & SAFETY The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) is part of a larger network of organizations dedicated to achieving safer and healthier workplaces and communities. We offer these web site links to assist you in your efforts to create safer, healthier work environments. For clarity and convenience the links are listed by the following categories: Health and Safety Canada; Government Health & Safety RESPIRATORY AND EYE PROTECTION AT WORK Public health experts agree the first line of defense against COVID-19 is social distancing (at least two metre distance from anyone). Also essential is personal and environmental hygiene, HEALTH AND SAFETY POSTERS Legal rights and duties are best learned through quality training. But reminders posted in your workplace and/or community can help. In addition to a wide range of comprehensive training programs, the Workers Health & Safety Centre provides information resources in a variety of formats, including three popular posters providing workers with a basic awareness of their three health and safety “RIGHT TO DISCONNECT” FROM WORK HAS MAJOR SUPPORT, SAYS Workers Health & Safety Centre 675 Cochrane Dr., Suite 710, East Tower Markham, ON L3R 0B8 Tel: 416-441-1939 Toll free: 1-888-869-7950 E-mail: contactus@whsc.on.ca VERSION 1.0 BEHAVIOUR-BASED SAFETY Behaviour-Based Safety: the blame game An entire department is given bingo cards. The game continues until someone in that department

reports a work

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PROVIDING TRAINING ESSENTIALS Certification, supervisor and WHMIS training are just some of the programs required by Ontario law. WHSC training schedules offer opportunities to attain these essential programs where and when you

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WHSC’S NEW VIRTUAL CLASSROOM OPEN APRIL 15 AND 16. REGISTER NOW! To help ensure workers and workplace representatives have ongoing access to trusted training during the COVID-19 pandemic WHSC is launching its new virtual classroom.

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GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR EMERGENCY COVID-19 MEDICAL AND HYGIENE SUPPLIES Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Workers still working during the COVID-19 crisis need your help.

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UPDATE: WHSC EFFORTS TO HELP CONTAIN COVID-19 EXPANDED As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, so too does WHSC’s response to the pandemic and most importantly for us, the health and safety of workers working during the pandemic.

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