Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS) Courses are provided on a complimentary basis, to select employees and employers within the Tourism & Hospitality Industry within BC. Please complete the registration form below to find out if you qualify.
Overview
Are you interested in learning how to manage workplace stress or handle challenging customer interactions? Do you oversee hazard identification or the implementation of violence prevention policies at your workplace? Are you knowledgeable about preventing musculoskeletal injuries?
For a limited time, go2HR is providing a selection of training courses through the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS) at no cost to select employers in BC’s tourism industry, including restaurants, pubs, hotels, and ski hills!
Read more about the specifics for each course below and fill out the registration form to register for your selected training.
Once registered, learners will receive access directly from CCOHS (email with registration link). Please allow five business days from registration to allow for course access.
Training Options
Bullying is defined as a repeated, persistent and continuous behaviour, as opposed to a single negative act. Generally, perceiving a power imbalance between the victim and the perpetrator, the victim feels inferior whether this imbalance is there or not.
Although other types of violence receive more media attention, workplace bullying is of great importance and can affect many people.
Topics include:
- Defining bullying
- Effects of bullying
- Preventing bullying
- Recognizing and removing the risks
- Specific control strategies
- Putting the knowledge to work
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the effects of bullying in the workplace, on the organization and its workers
- Recognize the signs of bullying and why it happens
- Identify the roles of the employers, managers, supervisors and employees in recognizing and preventing bullying
- Use tools to assist the victim, co-workers, supervisors and the employer in recognizing, assessing and controlling bullying in the workplace
Target audience: Health & Safety Committtee Members, Managers, Suppervisors and Workers
Length: 60 min
This course provides workers with an overview of the stresses and pressures that exist when dealing with customers who are volatile and/or hostile. Participants will develop a broad skill set to cope with these situations and will also learn practical communication and coping techniques to handle the situation and enhance personal performance.
Video clips are included to illustrate key concepts, while quizzes throughout help to measure and encourage learning.
Topics include:
- Assessing customers
- Human communication techniques
- Verbal, vocal and non-verbal techniques
- Communication skills
- Building rapport
- Coping techniques
Target audience: Managers, Supervisors, Workers
Length: 60 min
Hazards exist in every workplace, but how do you know which ones have the most potential to harm workers? By identifying hazards at your workplace, you will be better prepared to control or eliminate them and prevent incidents, injuries, property damage and downtime. After all, you can’t address issues you don’t know about.
This course explores the ongoing cycle of identifying hazards, assessing risk, controlling hazards, and evaluating controls. It covers key concepts, process steps and methods for hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard control.
Topics include:
- Identifying hazards
- Assessing risk
- Controlling hazards
- Evaluating controls for effectiveness
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Categorize hazards
- Recognize methods of hazard identification
- Define risk
- Recall good practices of risk assessments
- Use a risk matrix
- Prioritize hazards for control
- Categorize controls into the hierarchy of controls
- Recall the hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard control process and methods of control (including the hierarchy of controls)
- Determine the effectiveness of control measures
Target Audience: Management and supervisors, Health and Safety Committee members, Maintenance and facilities staff
Length: 3 hrs
They’re known by different names but work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs, or just MSDs) have one thing very much in common: they can cause discomfort, fatigue, pain and injury among workers.
MSDs are often caused by work that involves repetitive motion, forceful movements, and awkward body postures that are done for periods of time. Mainly the wrists, back, legs, shoulders, necks, muscles and joints are affected. This course focuses on good ergonomics principles and work organization as key prevention measures.
Ideal for both offices and manufacturers, this course covers the causes of MSDs, how to develop and use ergonomics as a way to prevent injuries in the workplace, and the importance of having an ergonomic and training program. It can also be used as a practical resource for participants in employee training sessions.
The course also features case studies, review quizzes, and “Ask a Question”. Those who score at least 80% on the final exam will be able to print a certificate of completion.
Topics include:
- Hazard identification
- Examining evidence of WSMD
- Risk assessment
- Developing and implementing controls
- Job hazard analysis
- Education and training
- Program evaluation and audits
- Recommending changes
Upon completion of this course you will know how to:
- Identify the causes of WMSDs
- Understand the basic elements of workplace ergonomics
- Identify ergonomic hazards in order to prevent injuries
- Develop an ergonomics program and set goals for your workplace;
- Develop training and education tools
- Involve managers and employees in the program
Target audience: Managers, Supervisors, Workers
Length: 60min
This course introduces participants to the complex issue of stress in the workplace, including what workplace stress is, its causes and negative impacts. Workers and managers alike will learn to identify signs of workplace stress, as well as measures to prevent, eliminate or reduce stress in the workplace.
Topics include:
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- Causes of workplace stress
- Organizational factors vs. individual/personal factors
- Impact on workers and organizations
- Workplace stress as a health and safety hazard
- Recognizing the signs of workplace stress
- What employers can do
- Managing stress
- Tips to help prevent, eliminate and reduce workplace stress
Target audience: Managers, Supervisors, Workers
Length: 60 min
Workplace violence is a serious issue that affects all business sectors and occupations. It affects the safety and security of every employee and employer. It claims a high personal cost from the emotional trauma and physical injury experienced by the victims, their families and co-workers. It also brings a high cost to employers in terms of public image, increased absenteeism, lost productivity, high employee turnover, and increased insurance/compensation costs.
This course introduces managers, supervisors and employees to the key components of an effective workplace violence prevention program, providing them with knowledge and tools to take action to eliminate or minimize the potential for workplace violence.
Topics include:
- Defining the scope of workplace violence, including harassment
- Employer’s Legal Obligations
- Workplace Violence Prevention Policy
- Hazard Assessment
- Preventive Measures
- Reporting and Investigating
- Emergency Response Planning
- Victim Assistance
- Incident Follow-up
- Training and Education
Target audience: Managers, Supervisors, Workers
Length: 90min