Health and Safety Professional Certificate Program

Manitoba Occupational Health & Safety Law
OHS law will encompass both provincial and federal laws to include employer responsibilities as well as an in-depth look at specific rules and regulations as they pertain to Manitoba businesses. This part of the program will also cover basic safety liberties companies must be aware of to mitigate potential legal actions from occurring.

Due Diligence
This course provides a basic understanding of due diligence and how it works for you and your organization. It covers the rights and responsibilities of all employees and employers in the workplace and what they mean. It provides participants with an overview of Manitoba’s health and safety law as well as the Criminal Code of Canada.

Hazard Recognition
Teaches participants the fundamentals of how to identify hazards in the workplace, rate the risk of the hazards identified, and recommend controls to eliminate or minimize the risks using various tools developed by safety professionals.

Hearing Conservation
The course covers sound level monitoring, what a hearing conservation program looks like, when employees are required to have hearing testing (audiometric testing), employer responsibilities to ensure worker noise exposures are limited, PPE use for noise reduction, an overview of Time Weighted Average (TWA) noise levels, and the hierarchy of noise reduction in the workplace.

Inspections / Workplace Inspections
This course focuses on the importance of formal and informal inspection techniques and the need to identify hazards within the workplace. Once hazards are identified, students are taught proper ways to eliminate or control hazards through corrective actions and recommendations.

Incident Investigation
Covers how to conduct an incident investigation in the workplace, including information gathering and scene preservation, interviewing witnesses, and preparing reports. Participants learn methods for preventing repeat incidents.

Cannabis in the Workplace
This part of the program covers employer, employee, and contractor rights and responsibilities. It includes examples of developing company policies and procedures to address cannabis in the workplace, covering both provincial and federal criteria.

Safety & the Supervisor Training
Designed for those managing, supervising, and directing a company’s health and safety program. Topics include OH&S management systems, legislated rights and responsibilities, and techniques to measure, maintain, and develop safety systems.

Workplace Safety and Health Committee & Health and Safety Representative
This course helps committee members understand their roles and responsibilities. It emphasizes the safety committee as a problem-solving team with the potential to save lives and money, providing tools to add value to the committee structure.

Fire Prevention Safety Basics
Covers fire extinguisher theory, classification of fires, fire decision skills, small fire protocols, emergency response procedures, fire prevention, and reporting an emergency.

WHMIS
This program teaches participants how to identify hazardous products, control hazards, and safely handle controlled products.

Asbestos Abatement Program
Covers employer responsibilities in asbestos-containing environments, requirements for developing an Asbestos Abatement Program, permit application processes, and necessary testing.

Transportation of Dangerous Goods – Ground
This two-session course covers TDG Regulations, including recent Transport Canada updates (2023). An additional module includes the shipment of lithium-ion batteries and their strict transportation requirements.

Spill Response
Provides current legislative information and industry best practices. Participants learn spill response basics and how to generate a spill response plan for their organization.

Preventing Workplace Violence
Covers understanding workplace violence, legislation and responsibilities, risk assessment, hazard control, developing prevention plans, and monitoring and follow-up.

Lockout
Teaches participants how to identify and control hazardous energy sources. Students learn how to use lockout devices to prevent injury when servicing equipment.

PPE & Respiratory Program
Focuses on PPE and implementing a Respiratory Protection Program when required. Covers responsibilities, CSA standards, and procedures for respirator selection, use, cleaning, and disposal.

Working at Heights
Teaches the hierarchy of controls for fall prevention, restraint, and arrest. Students learn equipment inspection and proper harness use.

Machine Guarding
Helps participants identify machine hazards and apply protection methods, including lockout/tagout and guarding. Includes development of Safe Work Procedures (SWPs).

Auditing Techniques
Covers auditing theory, regulations, documentation, due diligence, compliance, audit processes, checklist preparation, and gathering objective evidence.

Industrial Hygiene Basics
• The value of occupational hygiene
• The role of the occupational hygienist
• The range of health hazards encountered in the workplace
• Hazard recognition techniques
• Sources and potential routes of occupational exposure
• Exposure assessment and the measurement processes involved
• Methods of controlling exposure
• The management of occupational hygiene programs

Ergonomics
• Human factor approaches for office and individual workplaces
• Anatomy and physiology
• Workplace injury causes, consequences, and treatment
• Occupational health and psychology
• Physical and mental risk factors
• Risk assessment
• Pain and performance at work
• Design ergonomics and anthropometrics

Instructional Techniques / Adult Learning
• Understand the role and purpose of facilitating
• Understand the qualities of effective facilitation
• Identify the needs of your audience based on adult learning principles and styles
• Recognize group behaviors and know how to respond
• Understand the five P’s when preparing to facilitate
• Tools and methods of facilitation
• Understand the dos and don’ts of effective facilitation
• Understand the seven principles of effective training
• Understand how to deal with challenges when facilitating
• Create a training session that achieves your learning objectives
• Assess and give appropriate feedback to your participants
• Moderate your classroom and disruptions effectively
• Facilitate training sessions with greater confidence
• Build confidence by practicing and receiving feedback
• Understand how to facilitate virtually and the associated challenges

Practical Loss Leadership Home Study Program
This home study program helps participants improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and excellence of their health and safety system for managing loss control, quality, production, and cost control. Improved quality, production, and cost control go hand in hand with improved loss control, all of which depend on how the system is managed.

Practical Project
This project applies knowledge learned throughout the program and is typically structured as a benefit to the employer supporting the student. Safety Services Manitoba (SSM) works with the employer and participant to develop a meaningful workplace initiative.

Examples include:
• Development of a company-wide policy or program
• PowerPoint presentation to be facilitated in the workplace
• Developing and facilitating a new workplace orientation program