Health & Safety - Training & Education

TLC Group delivers a diverse array of Occupational Health & Safety training courses that are developed to meet all of your company's specific needs. Instruction is available on site and can be delivered in English, Italian or Spanish.

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Please note: The site is being worked on and not all training subjects will
have Course Descriptions, as these are being added gradually. We will be
glad to provide a description if it is not yet uploaded.

Supervisor/Manager Competence Course

Legal requirements for extensive training of Joint Health & Safety Committee members, has created an unbalance of knowledge between workers and supervisors. Legal requirements for competent supervisors can, when not met, create excessive exposure to prosecution. This course is designed to provide participants with the necessary knowledge to effectively support a Health & Safety program and meet the most strict competence requirements.

Course length: 3-4 days

Office Safety

Participants will learn about common office hazards and how these can be recognized, assessed and controlled. Topics covered in this training include Ergonomics, Walking and Working Surfaces, Hazards presented by office equipment, Safe Lifting and Fire Safety .

Course length: Up to 45 minutes

Office Ergonomics

Fall Protection and Fall Arrest

This course will provide adequate training, enabling participants to:

a) Recognize common fall hazards

b) Identify and apply basic fall protection controls.

Course components:

Course length: 1-1.5 hours

Ladder Safety

Machine Guarding

Lockout

Participants will know the legal requirements for lockout, the devices to use, the steps to take, and the type of equipment typically involved.

Topics include:

• Lockout requirements as per the Occupational Health and Safety Act and regulations
• What energy sources require locking out and why
• Lockout planning & preparation
• When alternate or other control methods need to be used to control hazardous energy
• a step-by-step procedure to lock out machinery or equipment
• How to deal with unusual situations, such as shift changes, employee forgetting to remove locks, etc...
• Lockout devices and applications
• Lockout procedures review ( the elements of a hazardous energy control program and how to apply them to your workplace

Course length: 1 - 1.5 hours

Dealing With Mental Stress

Cold & Heat Stress Awareness Safety

Noise & Hearing Protection

Eye Safety

Hand Tool Safety

Fire Safety Awareness and Fire Extinguisher Use

Participants will learn about:

• The Fire Triangle
• Fire Prevention
• Classifications of Fuels
• Types of Fire Extinguishers
• Rules for Fighting Fires
• How to Use a Fire Extinguisher

Course length: Up to 25 minutes Theory and 3 to 5 minutes per Participants' Practical session.

Achieving Hazard Awareness

Progressive Discipline: How to Enforce Your Safety Rules

Propane Cylinder Handling Training Course  

The Total Loss Control Group Inc. course covers all required subject areas, such as:

• Propane Characteristics and Technical Information
• Liquid and Vapour Propane Systems
• Propane Cylinder Components
• Inspections and their purpose
• Cylinder handling procedures
• Handling and Storage (theory and practical)
• Receiving Policy and Procedures
• Propane MSDS Elements
• Personal Responsibility
• Detailed manual for future reference

  Course length: 1.5 hrs to 2 hrs

Emergency Preparedness

What anticipated emergency situations in your firm have been identified? What emergency plan has your firm put in place for the safety and security of your employees? This introduction to emergency preparedness will help you and your firm to improve your planning for, and response to, emergencies.

Learning Objectives

Participants Will:

• develop their skills in assessing your firm's vulnerability to emergencies
• recognize appropriate countermeasures
• learn how to organize an emergency plan with key duties and responsibilities
• recognize and prioritize actions for emergency situations
• describe key procedures, duties and resources to consider in any emergency plan
• able to identify useful external resources

Course length: Up to 4 hours

Basic Certification Training for
Joint Health & Safety Committee Members - Part 1  

Legislation requires that workplaces with 20 or more employees have a Joint Health & Safety Committee, with 2 certified members. One representing management and one representing non-management employees. Our Certification & Training Program is specifically designed to allow employers in Ontario to meet the legislative requirements.

Course length: 2-3 days

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Basic Certification Training for
Joint Health & Safety Committee Members - Part 2  

Individual Hazard Training on the following subjects:

Course length: Workplace specific

Health & Safety Legislation Courses

Management and non-management employees will be able to clearly understand their legal duties and their rights under all related safety legislation.

Length of each course: 4 hours (Bill C-45 is only 1.5 hours)

Provincial Safety Legislation (All Provincial Safety Acts, except Quebec’s)

Ontario’s Regulations For Industrial Establishments (Specific to your Workplace)

Canada Labour Code Part II

Canada Health & Safety Regulations (Specific to your Workplace)

Bill C-45 Amendments (how to protect your corporation)

Being Able To Prove Due Diligence

Accident/Incident Investigation  

A systematic approach for identifying the root cause of an accident or incident. Using this approach, your firm's management can then implement the required controls and prevent a reoccurrence.

Course length: 4 hours

Workplace Inspections  

This course teaches you how to conduct an effective workplace inspection, how to prepare a comprehensive report which provides support for corrective action.

Course length: 4 hours

Joint Health & Safety Committees Roles & Functions

Understand the roles and legal responsibilities of committee members, how management is expected to deal with committees, the process of developing a committee or improving an existing one. Committee members will learn how to hold productive meetings, be effective in their legislated duties and provide pro-active recommendations.

Course length: 4 hours

Forklift Operator Certification

Regardless of skill or practical experience, all operators of Forklifts, Cranes, Slings and other material lifting equipment need to know strict operating practices and be familiar with legislative requirements in order to be considered legally "competent".

Course length: 4 hours - 2 days

Forklift and Pedestrian Safety

Participants will learn about:

• how to avoid forklift/pedestrian accidents
• procedures to use at blind intersections
• policy for riders
• rules for unattended forklifts
• passing under the forks
• rules for pedestrians and obstructions
• minor Spills & Obstructions
• dangers of misplaced Hands and feet
• avoiding pedestrians and injuries  
• dangers with bodies & the forklift 

Course length: Up to 45 minutes

Manual Lifting Safety  

The goals of this course are to promote safety in manual lifting. They are:

• to make the trainee fully aware of the potential dangers associated with lifting,
• to show trainees how to avoid unnecessary stress on the back through the use of proper lifting techniques, and
• to make each person aware of his or her physical limits in terms of the types and maximum weights of objects he or she can handle safely.

Course Contents:

• “Warnings”: (Individual's Capacity, Weight of the Load, Lifting Position, etc...)
• Basic biomechanics of lifting (how the weight of objects lifted is supported by the back)
• Basic physiology and the effects of unskilled lifting on the body
• Individual awareness of the body's strengths and weaknesses
• Risk factors that increase the potential for back injury (work-specific and life-style-related)
• Recommendations on how to improve life-style to reduce the potential for back injury (strength and fitness training, sleeping positions, etc...)
• Handling skills (body mechanics, load-moment effects, etc...)
• Handling aids (use of platforms, tables, steps, carts, etc...)
• Lumbar belts (are they really necessary?)
• Risk of injury associated with unskilled lifting

Course length: Up to 60 minutes

W.H.M.I.S. Training

WHMIS: Generic And Workplace-Specific

Subject to the amounts and varieties of hazardous substances being used and the manner in which they are used (risk of exposure), the time frame for the course could be as long as 8 or more hours with a maximum of 16 participants (being trained for their first time). Fewer participants (or reduced risk of exposure - due to methods or a smaller variety of substances) results in shorter discussion periods and therefore less time (to a minimum time frame of 1.5 to 2 hours).

COURSE CONTENTS: Generic Portion:

1. Development of WHMIS Legislation, Background and Definitions;
2. Legislated requirements under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations for Industrial Establishments, as related to WHMIS:

   a. Employer's responsibilities

   b. Supplier's responsibilities

   c. Employee's rights & responsibilities

3. Requirements for workplace worker training
4. Toxicology
5. Hazard recognition
6. Hazard assessment
7. Hazard Control
8. Labels/Hazard Symbols

   a. WHMIS (Workshop)

   b. Consumer Products (Workshop)

9.   MSDS

   a. Contents

   b. Interpretation of MSDS contents (Workshop)

Workplace-Specific Portion:

We recommend that at least 65% of classroom time be taken to cover items # 8 & 9, as they represent the most critical WHMIS elements.

Workplace-specific contents and areas of concern to be addressed would be finalized with the Joint Health & Safety Committee OR Worker safety Representative. We recommend that each participant be supplied with copies of MSDSs for the two most commonly used hazardous materials. These copies would be used during the MSDS workshop, to enable the participant to understand how to obtain critical information for safe use of the product/s specific to their work area.

Generic Portion:

Items 1 through 3 can be covered within 15% of classroom time. Items 4 through 7 can be covered within 20% of classroom time.

Course length: 1.5 hours to 8 hours

 

WHMIS Train-The-Trainer Instruction  

Employee turnover can make WHMIS Certification an expensive compliance process. We can train designated employees to be in-house WHMIS trainers.

Course length: 2-4 days

Confined Space Entry Theory

Recognizing what an enclosed or confined space is, and knowing how to make it safe for entry, are two key lessons of this seminar.

Participants Will Learn:

•  How to identify an enclosed or confined space, according to existing and proposed H&S Regulations ( O.Reg 632/05 expected to be enforced as of September 30, 2006 )

•  How to identify the hazards of a confined space

•  What procedures are required for working safely in a confined area and be in compliance with the new Regulations

•  The importance and value of a work permit system

•  Why it is essential to continually monitor a confined space

•  When to conduct lockout

•  Review the new proposed Confined Space Regulations

Course length: 2.5- 3.0 hours

Confined Space Rescue (Requires Theory Session as a pre-requisite)

*(depending on number of spaces reviewed)

This will be a hands-on, practical session, during which the participants will carry out a review (perform actual entries) of the various confined spaces within workplace and evaluate the inherent risks/related hazards. The purpose will be to identify and develop the required rescue procedures for each confined space.

This session may be combined with the Theory session.

Course length: 2.5- 8.0 hours