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Certification Part I

Basic Certification * available in French  

The WHSC Basic Certification program helps organizations provide basic training to workplace health and safety representatives and fulfill Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) requirements. It meets and exceeds minimum standards set out by the WSIB and is applicable to any workplace in Ontario.

Delivered over a four-day period, this program gives participants a full understanding of occupational health and safety legislation, including rights and responsibilities of the workplace parties and certified reps in particular. Equally important, participants learn how to identify, assess and control, or better yet eliminate, workplace hazards. The training also gives participants the ability to create workplace health and safety policies and programs, access prevention resources and develop internal communications.

Basic Certification training consists of the following modules:

• Introduction
• The Internal Responsibility System
• Understanding the Law
• Employer Responsibilities
• Worker Participation
• Enforcement
• Joint Health & Safety Committees
• The Certified Member
• Human Health
• Health & Safety Policy and Program 
• Hazard Identification
• Hazard Assessment
• Prevention Resources
• Hazard Control
• Workplace Inspection

Videos:

• Completing Certification  [3 minutes]
• Internal Responsibility System  [4 minutes]
• The Certified Member  [13 minutes]
• The Body in the Workplace  [18 minutes]
• A Plan to Prevent MSDs  [15 minutes]
• Occupational Hygiene Monitoring  [15 minutes]
• Principles of Control  [10 minutes]
• Check Double CHeck, Workplace Inspections  [14 minutes]
• Accident Investigation  [12 minutes]