2024 Fall Courses
Descriptions follow below
*Course #4 starts Tuesday, November 5, 2024
1. WHSC Level 1 Basic Occupational Health and Safety Awareness (no prerequisite)
2. WHSC Level 2 Law Provincial (WHSC Level 1 is a prerequisite)
3. Prevention Link - ODRT WSIB Level 1 &2 (no prerequisite)
4. Prevention Link - ODRT WSIB Level 5 Medical Orientation* (Level 1 and 2 are prerequisites)
5. Organizing to Build Solidarity with Migrant Workers (no prerequisite)
6. Mental Health First Aid Cerification (MHCC), and Anti-Racist Psychological H&S in the Workplace (no prerequisite)
1. WHSC Level 1 Basic Occupational Health and Safety Awareness
Level I embraces an entire gamut of health and safety issues by focussing on hazard recognition and the rights and responsibilities of the workplace parties, as prescribed by existing legislation. This 30-hour core program consists of seven modules that identify the respective roles of the workplace parties - management, government and labour regarding health and safety; explains current health and safety legislation, provincial or federal; discusses how the body functions and the damaging effect hazards have on it; features carcinogens, and how to recognize them and toxic substances, as well as their sources.
2. WHSC Level 2 Law (Provincial)
This program has been updated to include major amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which include: requirements for more than 30,000 Joint Health and Safety Committees to be established in workplaces previously exempt under the Act; the creation of "certified members" and the right to stop work under certain conditions; and the creation of the bipartite Workplace Health and Safety Agency. Participants are offered a complete program discussing the health and safety legislation governing their workplace. The Act covers the majority of workers in virtually every type of industry in the province.
3. Prevention Link - ODRT WSIB Level 1 & 2
WSIB Rights & Obligations (Level 1) The first of six core certification courses offered within Prevention Link’s disability prevention curriculum, this introductory course begins by exploring the history of the worker’s compensation system in Ontario and the development of legislation and the general principles of the system. WSIB Benefits & Representation (Level 2) in this course, participants learn: the significance of legislation (OHSA and WSIA), regulations and policy, including changes to the legislation and the effects these changes have had on benefits. Participants further learn about funding, including: which employers are covered; optional insurance; how the system is funded; how incentive programs work; and experience rating work and when claim costs can be transferred. Participants will also learn how to make a case plan for a successful outcome and different types of evidence to use. Visit Prevention Link’s website for more information at www.preventionlink.ca
4. Prevention Link - ODRT Level 5 Medical Orientation *Starts Tuesday, November 5, 2024*
Participants learn medical terminology, and human anatomy with attention to the different organ systems (skeletal, muscular, nervous, auditory, ocular, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and integumentary). Specific injuries (back, bone, MSIs, lower extremities) that are commonly seen in WSIB cases are discussed. Topics discussed in detail include: Disorders such as chronic pain and fibromyalgia are discussed; Mental stress related injuries; WSIB policies relating to traumatic stress, psycho traumatic disability and behavioural disorders; The legislative authority for health care and the relevant WSIB policies; Evidence-based medicine and the difference between disease-oriented evidence (DOE); Patient-oriented evidentiary medicine (POEM); Medical specialists and Ontario standard; Medical records, independent medical examinations and treatment modalities and the use of OHCOW services; Diagnostic test used in determining workplace Injuries and some treatments, including their advantages and disadvantages; and Determining disability and impairment (Permanent Impairment rewards, how they are assessed and the different types of awards (PPDS and NELs). Participants follow detailed calculations for these awards to understand how the degree of impairment translates into a monetary value. Finally, when and how redeterminations occur, are discussed. For more info, visit www.preventionlink.ca
5. Organizing to Build Solidarity with Migrant Workers
The School is pleased to collaborate with Injured Workers Action 4 Justice (IWA4J) and Justice 4 Migrant Workers (J4MW). Full description is forthcoming
6. Mental Health First Aid Certification (MHCC), and Anti-Racist Psychological H&S in the Workplace
This program consists of 2 parts: one part is a full 2-day, intensive Mental Health First Aid Certification. Participants will be certified with their Mental Health First Aid by the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Participants will discuss substance use disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders. Crisis first aid skills for the following situations will be learned: substance overdose, suicidal behaviour, panic attacks, acute stress reactions, psychotic episodes. The other part is a 1.5-day workshop on an anti-racism framework for psychological health and safety in the workplace. Full description is forthcoming