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The mental health crisis is real – support workers through training!

Research indicates that difficult working conditions, job demands and work environments are critical factors contributing to mental health issues.

Why a more accurate picture of work-related suffering matters.

Thousands of Ontario workers die each year because work-related hazards are left unchecked. This truth, however, is rarely told.

Close to home. Plan to attend a Day of Mourning event in your community.

When a worker dies or is critically injured in a preventable workplace tragedy it hits hard. Whether or not they were our loved ones it still strikes close to home.

WHSC’s new London hub offers OHS training for Southwestern Ontario

With the opening of a new training facility in London, Workers Health & Safety Centre is poised to become the leading health and safety training provider for Southwestern Ontario.

Quality WHMIS training promotes compliance and worker health

Training workers about hazardous exposures on the job is legally mandated but it’s also a tool to help identify and prevent exposures that can lead to disease.

Supervisor competence and support critical for safer, healthier workplaces

Competent and supportive supervisors can help reduce injuries experienced by workers, especially when supervisors are properly trained.

New WHSC road work training paves way for safer work

Working in and near traffic can be extremely dangerous, even deadly. Ontario law recognizes this with regulation and WHSC with training. Both aim to safeguard road workers.

JHSC Certification training critical to your internal responsibility system

Successful workplaces understand safer, healthier work benefits everyone. They also make a point of understanding what the law provides.

Lack of training continues to threaten new workers’ safety

Does your workplace make safety training a priority for new workers? Not doing so can place workers in harm’s way and employers in legal jeopardy.

SPECIAL C-45 REPORT: Prison for supervisor found negligent in worker death

A supervisor for an Ontario dump truck firm has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of criminal negligence causing the death of a firm driver in 2020.

Access lifesaving working at heights training at WHSC training centres

On the same cold winter day, two workers recently fell to their death in Ontario, tragedies the province’s mandatory working at heights training standard is intended to prevent.

WHSC ergonomics training deeply discounted during February

Workers Health & Safety Centre’s (WHSC) current ergonomics training campaign is targeting awareness and action to help prevent debilitating injuries throughout the year.

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