Are supervisors in your workplace competent to meet their many obligations designed to protect worker health and safety? Training is an important and mandatory step.

In fact, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development (MLITSD) is currently undertaking a proactive compliance initiative to ensure supervisors have completed basic occupational health and safety awareness training. MLITSD inspectors are targeting construction sites, industrial sector workplaces, as well as any worksite employing vulnerable workers between now and March 2025.

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Supervisor competency

Ontario’s Occupational Health & Safety Act (OHSA) requires employers to appoint a competent person as a supervisor. A competent person is:

• qualified because of knowledge, training and experience to organize the work and its performance,
• familiar with the OHSA and Regulations that apply to the work, and
• knowledgeable about any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace.

Supervisor training

Employers are also required to ensure supervisors complete occupational health and safety awareness training (O. Reg. 297/13). This training must be completed within one week of performing work as a supervisor and must address a wide range of topics, such as duties and rights of workers, duties of employers and supervisors, roles of worker health and safety representatives in smaller workplaces or joint health and safety committees (JHSCs) in larger ones, how to recognize, assess and control workplace hazards, and how to evaluate controls. 

WHSC can help with compliance

Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) Supervisor Health & Safety Training meets and exceeds these minimum training requirements. Using proven adult education techniques participants learn about the workplace Internal Responsibility System and the many specific roles supervisors must play in work refusals, MLITSD workplace inspections, and JHSC or health and safety representative’s inspections and investigations. The program further reviews relevant case law and provisions of the Criminal Code enacted to help hold criminally negligent corporations, groups and individuals, including supervisors, to account for workplace injuries and fatalities.

REGISTER TODAY FOR SUPERVISOR TRAINING

Need other essential and legally mandated training such as joint health & safety committee Certification, GHS-WHMIS, working at heights or workplace violence and harassment? WHSC, Ontario’s official government-designated training centre, offers these programs and many more. Check out our complete training catalogue and upcoming in-person and virtual training opportunities.

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