All joint committee members must receive 8 hours of training and instruction.
Joint committees play a key role in overall workplace health and safety, and can assist the employer with reducing workplace injuries and diseases.
The Workers Compensation Act requires employers to establish a joint health and safety committee in any workplace that regularly employs 20 or more workers (full and part time).
This instructor-led, live and online course provides you with the education required to meet the eight (8) hours of mandatory training.
Course Content:
- The duties and functions of a joint committee
- The rules of procedure of the joint committee
- The requirements around conducting incident investigations
- The requirements around conducting regular workplace inspections, and how to make regular inspections
- The requirements around responding to a refusal of unsafe work
- The requirements for annually evaluating the joint committee
Course Credits:
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