Workers Health & Safety Centre

Worker getting health and safety training in Ontario

TRAINING

WHSC offers an extensive catalogue of some 200 existing hazard- and industry-specific training programs. Many of these programs meet and even exceed legal training requirements. We schedule the most essential of these programs in online, instructor-led, virtual classrooms and in in-person classrooms to a growing degree. We can also coordinate delivery of any program in our catalogue for your workplace “onsite” in virtual or in-person classrooms. Contact a WHSC training services representative nearest you to explore these options.

Benefits of WHSC training

By law, employers must provide information and instruction to workers to protect their health and safety. Training is a key way employers meet this obligation. Specifically mandated training includes WHMIS, Certification of Joint Health and Safety Committees and training for certain equipment operators.

Beyond meeting the law, WHSC training offers so much more.

  • Participant-centred learning
  • Real-world applicability
  • Ensured learning
  • Records of training (including portable records)
  • Responsive service
  • Ongoing support

Effective training can make a real difference in your workplace. It can help:

  • Workplace parties understand and carry out their legal rights and duties
  • Support the effectiveness of joint health and safety committees and representatives
  • Ensure operator and supervisor competency
  • Bolster overall workplace prevention programs
  • Reduce work-related injury and illness by identifying and controlling workplace hazards.

Training options

WHSC programs can meet all of your training needs. We make it easy. 

In-person training: WHSC usually schedules in-person training year-round in communities across Ontario. When we do, we reach workplaces of all sizes and from all sectors.   We are resuming this option for some courses in fall 2022. To sign up just click on the “In-Person courses” tab on our training registration page.

Virtual Training: We are also scheduling training essentials in innovative virtual classrooms. Like all our training, WHSC virtual training is highly interactive, applying adult learning principles to ensure learning is engaging, relevant and achieved. Offered live, in real-time instructor-led sessions, participants will need a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a properly functioning camera, speaker and microphone. To sign up just click on the “Virtual Courses” tab on our training registration page.

Onsite training: Want to bring WHSC training to your workplace? With enough participants, WHSC can deliver training in virtual classrooms or with proper COVID-19 protocols in place we can coordinate in-person training. Get a cost estimate using our online course calculator. Contact a WHSC training services representative to learn more about this flexible, cost-effective approach.

Customized training: Don’t see the training right for your workplace? On a fee-for-service basis, WHSC can customize existing programs or develop unique training to incorporate workplace- or industry-specific case studies, policies and practices. To learn more about this popular WHSC service, e-mail us at contactus@whsc.on.ca or contact a training services representative nearest you..

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TESTIMONIALS


"WHSC in-house training worked really well for us. Our supervisors loved the instructor and thought the program was fantastic. We would recommend WHSC training to others." Nancy Morais Office Manager Asbury Building Services Toronto
"In my experience, joint committee members with the benefit of Certification Training are more prepared and motivated to get involved. It only makes sense then to offer this training to all committee members." Jill Ross Worker Co-Chair, Joint Health and Safety Committee London Health Sciences Centre
"We use WHSC courses in our apprenticeship programs. Our members like that they learn the basics in the classroom, but then put them into practice right afterwards on site." Nick Ciccone Training Director & Apprenticeship Co-ordinator LIUNA Local 837 Hamilton

POLL

Does your workplace have a written health and safety policy and comprehensive program to implement the policy?