2025 Fall Courses
Descriptions follow below
Please see below for course start date. All courses end Sunday, November 9, 2025
1. WHSC Level 1 Basic Occupational Health and Safety Awareness (no prerequisite) *starts evening of Wednesday, November 5, 2025
2. Prevention Link - ODRT WSIB Level 1 &2 (no prerequisite) *starts evening of Wednesday, November 5, 2025
3. **POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2026: Mental Health First Aid Certification (MHCC), and Anti-Racist Psychological H&S in the Workplace (no prerequisite)
4. WHSC Instructor Training (WHSC Level 1 is a pre-requisite) *starts evening of Thursday, October 30, 2025
5. Prevention Link - ODRT Instructor Training (Level 1 and 2 are prerequisites) *starts evening of Thursday, October 30, 2025
1. WHSC Level 1 Basic Occupational Health and Safety Awareness *runs the evening of 5 November through to 9 November 2025
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. Prevention Link - ODRT WSIB Level 1 & 2 *runs the evening of 5 November through to 9 November 2025
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
3. **Postponed until Spring 2026 Mental Health First Aid Certification (MHCC), and Anti-Racist Psychological H&S in the Workplace *runs the evening of Tues 5 November through to 9 November 2025
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.
4. WHSC Instructor Training (WHSC Level 1 prerequisite) *runs the evening of Thurs 30 October through to 9 November 2025
Participants of the WHSC Instructor's Course will receive a certificate as a WHSC Instructor and will be eligible to instruct WHSC courses for WHSC and their locals using WHSC materials.
5. Prevention Link - ODRT Instructor Training (Level 1 & 2 prerequisites) *runs the evening of Thurs 30 October through to 9 November 2025
Through this comprehensive certification course, participants will gain skills and confidence to deliver Prevention Link material.
*preference will be given to registrants who self-declare as racialized, and then from a variety of equity groups.