Joint Health and Safety Committee Certification Part One

Overview

Under section 9 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), where a workplace has twenty (20) or more workers, a Joint Health and Safety Committee must be established. All Joint Health and Safety Committees are required to have two of their members, one worker and one manager, certified by a Chief Prevention Officer (CPO) approved training provider.

To become a fully certified JHSC member, you must initially complete two CPO approved Joint Health and Safety Committee programs; Part One and Part Two, which is workplace specific.

• Joint Health and Safety Committee Part One training will be three days in length (19.5 hours)
• Joint Health and Safety Committee Part Two training will be two days in length (13 hours)

Joint Health and Safety Committee Part One training is geared towards ensuring that you understand the legal roles and responsibilities of many workplace parties, understand how to read and look up legislation, and to review what you need to know about workplace hazards, inspections, and investigations.

Once you have completed the JHSC Part One training, you must complete your JHSC Part Two training within 12 months in order to become a fully certified member.

Joint Health and Safety Committee Certification is valid for three years. Prior to the expiry of your Joint Health and Safety Committee certification, you must complete a Joint Health and Safety Committee Refresher training session with a CPO Approved provider, which will then revalidate your certification for an additional three years. This refresher training is one day (minimum 6.5 hours) in length.

What You’ll Learn

• Describe the certification process and explain the role of the certified member.
• Describe the importance of occupational health and safety and outline the roles of each of the workplace parties.
• Identify occupational health and safety legislation, demonstrate how to access information from it, and explain the basic rights, responsibilities, and training requirements.
• Describe the purpose, legal requirements for, and rights, duties, and function of JHSCs and describe how a functioning JHSC works.
• Describe the rights, duties and responsibilities of JHSC members and certified members.
• Describe the categories of hazards and the basic process of recognizing, assessing, and controlling hazards, and evaluating the hazard controls.
• Explain hazard recognition and the process for workplace inspections and identify the legal requirements.
• Explain the purpose of, and describe basic methods for doing a hazard assessment.
• Explain the purpose of, and describe basic methods of hazard control.
• Explain the purpose of the evaluation of hazard controls.
• Practice hazard recognition, assessment, and control, and evaluation of the hazard controls.
• State the requirements for, and describe the processes for, reporting and investigating fatalities, critical injuries, work refusals, and complaints of dangerous circumstances.
• Review and understand the legislative requirements for access to occupational health and safety information and demonstrate how to access typical sources of occupational health and safety information.

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