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Safety Culture: 3 Fundamental Rights
As a Canadian employee, it's crucial to understand your health and safety rights to ensure personal protection. Familiarizing yourself with your right to be informed about workplace hazards, participate in hazard assessments, and refuse dangerous work can help you become a competent and informed safety leader in your workplace. This course, Safety Culture: 3 Fundamental Rights, provides you with the necessary tools to make informed decisions when faced with health and safety challenges.
As an employee in Canada, understanding your health and safety rights is vital for your protection. Recognizing your rights to be informed about workplace hazards, participate in hazard evaluations, and refuse unsafe work equips you with the necessary tools to become a proficient safety leader in your workplace. By practicing these 3 Fundamental Health and Safety Rights (Rights), and the safety culture & leadership principles taught in this course, Safety Culture: 3 Fundamental Rights, you will be ready to make the RIGHT CALL when facing health and safety issues. The Safety Culture: The 3 Fundamental Rights course offers an engaging and interactive way to teach these 3 Fundamental Rights and instill in you the safety leadership principles related to these Rights.
This course is designed for:
- All employees in the United States of America (US) and Canada, as these 3 Fundamental Health and Safety Rights are ingrained in the legislation of both countries.
- Any employee who wants to enhance their understanding of safety culture, leadership, accountability, and compliance;
- Any employee who wants to learn in an enjoyable workshop-style course that includes a humorous and intriguing story about a dangerous interaction with elephants in Botswana.
This online course, Safety Culture: 3 Fundamental Rights, is intended to supplement the BIS platforms’ Leadership for Safety and 12 Steps to Establishing Leadership Presence: Fuel – Navigate – Drive online courses. These three courses equip your workforce with the safety leadership tools and mindset needed to safely carry out their tasks and positively influence their colleagues to establish an effective safety program and culture.
Upon completion of this course, learners will comprehend the significance of:
- 3 Fundamental Health and Safety Rights associated with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Act and Part II of the Canada Labour Code:
- The Right to Know about the hazards in your workplace. Employees are entitled to be informed of known or foreseeable hazards in the workplace and to be provided with the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary to protect their health and safety.
- The Right to Participate in assessing and controlling the hazards in your workplace. This 2nd right gives workers significant rights to participate in activities to ensure their protection from job hazards.
- The Right to Refuse Unsafe / Dangerous Work is the most crucial of the 3 fundamental health and safety rights as it empowers employees to stand down when faced with a potentially hazardous work situation. This right protects workers from employer reprisals should they refuse to perform a potentially dangerous work task.
- Safety Leadership Styles they may opt to adopt for their own personal safety leadership approach in their workplace. A variety of safety leadership styles covering the ‘how to’ and ‘how not to’ lead others in safety are explored in this course.
- Safety Communication Styles they can adopt to be more effective in conveying crucial safety messages to co-workers. For example: being more direct in communicating safety issues; avoiding softened speech (aka sugarcoating); the effects of tone, condescension, mockery etc. in person-to-person safety messaging.
- Mitigated Speech. Analyzing the causes of plane crashes over the past 30 years due to the use of softened speech in cockpit safety communications.
Approximately 1 hour
Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information shared. A score of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The course can be taken three times in attempts to achieve the pass mark. Printable resources are available in the form of a comprehensive student manual. The manual is a valuable resource for future reference and knowledge retention.
Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.
Course Details
Course Length
This course will take roughly 60 minutes
Passing Mark
To pass this training course, you need to score 80% or higher on the quiz
Certificate
Upon the successful completion of this course a certificate with your name will be stored on your profile and available to print
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