Instructor-Led Courses Reserve

CCSA offers a variety of health and safety courses ranging in length from 2 hours to multiple days. Each course has a specific focus on long-term care and seniors supportive living/lodges.

Shorter courses, under 4-hours, are designed to provide practical skills and knowledge, without going deeper into theoretical issues.

Full day or multi-day courses have an emphasis on professional training and are aimed at those who seek professional improvement and theoretical knowledge that is more complex.

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Instructor-Led Course Catalogue

To learn more about the course, click on the course name. To sign up, click on “In-Person” or “Virtual” within the course description.

Auditor Training

NOTE: You must successfully complete the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Course prior to taking the Auditor Training Course.

This 2-day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course is the last course you take to become a Certificate of Recognition (COR) Auditor.  Learn to plan, conduct, complete and submit audits under the Partners in Injury Reduction (PIR) program–audits that align with the protocols and the standards required to achieve a Certificate of Recognition (COR). In order to receive a certificate of completion, you will be required to complete an open-book competency exam and achieve a score of 80 percent or more. After successful completion of the course, you will be eligible to conduct your qualifying audit, which allows you to become a CCSA approved auditor.

Hazard Assessment & Control

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course focuses on the identification, assessment, and control of hazards (the things at work that cause you to get hurt). During the first half of the course, you explore the fundamental concepts of hazard assessment through activities and classic lecture. In the second half, you go step-by-step through the creation of a formal hazard assessment specific to your site. By the end of the course, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals, as well as a customized formal hazard assessment ready for implementation the moment you return to work. 

This course will also be available in a 2-hour on-demand format.

Health & Safety Committee / Representative

This ~6-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course meets legislative course requirements that Health and Safety Committee members can take to assist them in understanding their roles and responsibilities. Get an overview of all topics related to being an effective Health and Safety Committee including safety culture, hazard assessment, work site inspections, incident investigation, laws, writing an employer recommendation, terms of reference, and how to be an effective committee, among many others.

Incident Investigation

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course examines what to do after an incident at work to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again. Examine the theory behind incident investigation and then walk through the steps of the investigation process under the guidance of an instructor. By the end of the course, you will view incidents through a new lens, and you’ll have important knowledge and skills to help make your workplace safer, no matter what your role in the investigation process.

Managing Workplace Violence and Aggression

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course addresses the serious topic of violence at the workplace and how to prevent it. As per best practice, we embrace a holistic, team-based philosophy and use group activities that facilitate openness, cooperation, and discussion. Under an instructor’s guidance, you will synthesize violence prevention theory with the realities of your workplace and tune-up critical skills like active listening and de-escalation. By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge and mindset you need to reduce the risk of violence and harassment for yourself and those around you.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Manual Materials Handling (MMH)

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course focuses on how to safely lift and manipulate OBJECTS. WCB  data shows that sprains and strains are the leading injuries in the healthcare sector every year. Lifting and moving with proper body mechanics –both in and outside of work –greatly impact injury reduction. Examine the theory behind musculoskeletal injuries and then practice the most common lifts with coaching by an instructor. By the end of the course, you will have a good sense of the why and the how of safe lifting. Take what you learned and use it in your daily life.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Safe Resident Handling (SRH)

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course focuses on how to safely lift and physically manipulate PEOPLE. The highest risk activities that a healthcare worker can do involves moving patients and residents. Lifting and moving with proper body mechanics has a huge impact on injury reduction. Examine the theory behind musculoskeletal injuries then practice the most common lifts with coaching by an instructor. By the end of the course, you will have a good sense of the why and the how of safe lifting. Take what you learned and use it in your daily life.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Combo (MMH & SRH)

This 6-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course focuses on the how to safely lift and physically manipulate both PEOPLE and OBJECTS. It covers the same content as the Manual Materials Handling Workshop and Safe Resident Handling Course. WCB data shows that every year, sprains, and strains are the leading injury in the healthcare sector. Lifting and moving with proper body mechanics both in and outside of work has a huge impact on the reduction of those injuries. Examine the theory behind musculoskeletal injuries and then practice the most common lifts with coaching by an instructor. By the end of the course, you will have a good sense of all of the techniques needed to move both people and objects. Take what you learned and use it in your daily and work life.

Occupational Health And Safety Management Systems: Basics for Auditors

This 2-day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course is the first workshop you take on your way to becoming a Certificate of Recognition (COR) Auditor. Under the guidance of an instructor, explore the 10 elements of a health and safety system and the legislative requirements surrounding them. In order to receive a certificate of completion, you will complete an open-book competency exam and achieve a score of 80 percent or more. Successful completion of this course gives you the foundation for success in the CCSA Auditor Program.

Root Cause Analysis In-Service

This 2-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led in-service will focus on determining root cause as a necessary step in the process of reducing (or eliminating) workplace incidents. Incident investigations cannot be successful without discovering the fundamental source of the incident: the Root Cause. This highly interactive in-service provides participants with hands-on guidance to practice and hone their skills in recognizing root cause.

Participants will be given the opportunity to use their actual, site-specific incident investigations to determine the root cause of an incident or, if preferred, your CCSA Consultant can provide incident scenarios for you to use in this in-service. The Root Cause Analysis In-service is an extension of the Incident Investigation Workshop and is intended for those members of your staff responsible for performing incident investigations.

Safety Leadership Module I: Introduction to Health and Safety Leadership

Effective and accountable leadership is an essential component of an organization’s health and safety program. To make safety a reality, every leader must have a desire to make the workplace safe for all that enter. It’s no secret –leaders have a greater responsibility for safety than anyone else in the organization. How they demonstrate the importance of safety can significantly impact outcomes. Each of the three modules in the health and safety leadership program is designed to give you the information and skills to establish and support an effective occupational health and safety system. Explore the development of a safety culture from three perspectives –programs, individuals, and teams –and embed safety throughout all levels of the organization. Note: employers wishing to package all three modules together into one three-day program must submit a Private Training request.

Module1: Introduction to Health and Safety Leadership

This ~7-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course explores the legalities of establishing an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) so you can quickly and efficiently adjust in the ever-changing environment of continuing care. Find out how to integrate strategic planning, change management and strategic communications within your OHSMS to help introduce and sustain successful change.

Safety Leadership Module II: Leading Individual Safety Performance

Effective and accountable leadership is an essential component of an organization’s health and safety program. To make safety a reality, every leader must have a desire to make the workplace safe for all that enter. It’s no secret –leaders have a greater responsibility for safety than anyone else in the organization. How they demonstrate the importance of safety can significantly impact outcomes. Each of the three modules in the health and safety leadership program is designed to give you the information and skills to establish and support an effective occupational health and safety system. Explore the development of a safety culture from three perspectives –programs, individuals and teams –and embed safety throughout all levels of the organization. Note: employers wishing to package all three modules together into one three-day program must submit a Private Training request.

Module 2: Leading Individual Safety Performance

This ~7-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course examines the significant impact your relationship with your employees has on the culture of safety within your organization. Explore the theory and application of leading individuals through change, motivating employees to adopt a safety culture, positively reinforcing safe work behaviours, and providing positive corrective feedback. 

Safety Leadership Module III: Effective Team Leadership

Effective and accountable leadership is an essential component of an organization’s health and safety program. To make safety a reality, every leader must have a desire to make the workplace safe for all that enter. It’s no secret –leaders have a greater responsibility for safety than anyone else in the organization. How they demonstrate the importance of safety can significantly impact outcomes. Each of the three modules in the health and safety leadership program is designed to give you the information and skills to establish and support an effective occupational health and safety system. Explore the development of a safety culture from three perspectives –programs, individuals, and teams –and embed safety throughout all levels of the organization. Note: employers wishing to package all three modules together into one three-day program must submit a Private Training request.

Module 3: Effective Team Leadership

This ~7-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course studies the concept that programs and policies are only as good as the level of team buy-in. To achieve this, employees need to see that safety is important to all leaders within your organization. In this final module, you will focus on creating and maintaining a visible safety presence within your team. Explore theory and practical exercises that focus on team dynamics, successful team safety structures, and visible actions that bring safety information to teams.

Work Site Inspections Workshop

This 4-hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course examines work site inspections – an essential part of ensuring your workplace is safe. Examine the theory behind proper inspections and then preform a worksite inspection under the guidance of an instructor. By the end of the course, you will have the background knowledge and the experience to do inspections that make a positive difference to the safety of your workplace.

Train-the-Trainer Courses:

Hazard Assessment Train the Trainer

This 2 day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course focuses on the identification, assessment, and control of hazards (the things at work that cause you to get hurt). During the first part of the course, you explore the fundamental concepts of hazard assessment through activities and classic lecture. You will go step-by-step through the creation of a formal hazard assessment specific to your site.

The second part of this course is designed to ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver the Hazard Assessment workshop material to suit your organizational or facility needs. To achieve this, the focus shifts to examining how to break down and present the course content to ensure it is relevant and useful; along with key points to introduce to your participants, a variety of industry-specific examples and proven tips for setting up the course exercises.

By providing a combination of instructor-led facilitation, student participation, course work, coaching and presentation practice you will be able to demonstrate your understanding, and the requirements for delivering an effective hazard assessment & control training program. The train-the-trainer course is designed to ensure you are proficient with the course content, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals, as well as able to apply comprehensive and useful educational strategies to confidently present, apply and coach participants to correctly complete effective hazard assessments for all roles within your organization.

Incident Investigation Train the Trainer

This 2-day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course examines what to do after an incident at work to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again. During the first part of the course, you will examine the theory behind incident investigation then walk through the steps of the investigation process under the guidance of an instructor. You will learn how to view incidents through a new lens, and you’ll have important knowledge and skills to help make your workplace safer, no matter what your role in the investigation process.

The second part of this course ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver the Incident Investigation course material to suit your organizational or facility needs. To achieve this, the focus shifts to examining how to break down and present the course content to ensure it is relevant and useful; along with key points to introduce to your audience, a variety of industry-specific examples and proven tips for setting up the course exercises.

By providing a combination of instructor-led facilitation, student participation, course work, real-life Incident Investigation experience, coaching and presentation practice you will be able to demonstrate your understanding of the importance of completing effective Incident Investigations. The train-the-trainer course is designed to ensure you are proficient with the course content, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals, as well as be able to apply comprehensive and useful educational strategies to confidently present, demonstrate and coach participants to correctly perform an incident investigation focused on identifying and correcting the root cause(s) to prevent future incidents.

Musculoskeletal Prevention Program (MIP) TTT Refresher

This 6-8 hour scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led musculoskeletal injury prevention train-the-trainer refresher is designed to ensure the participants are trained on current best practices.

Prerequisite(s): Any of the following: MIP MMH TTT; MIP S RH TTT; MIP Combo TTT taken within the last 3 years

It is imperative that “Trainers” go through the recertification process. The intent of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to deliver the theory as well as a hands-on demonstration. The course content has been designed to ensure you are aware of any updated legislative changes and become confident and comfortable in demonstrating and coaching participants to use the S.A.F.E. handling techniques required to reduce their risk of injury.

To receive a certificate of completion, you will be required to demonstrate your safe lifting techniques and complete an open-book competency exam and achieve a score of 80 percent or more.

Successful completion of this workshop gives you the foundation for success in delivering the CCSA MIP Safe Resident and Manual Material Handling courses within your organization.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Combo (MMH & SRH) Train the Trainer

This 3 day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course is designed to ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver the Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention –Safe Resident Handling (SRH) & Manual Materials Handling (MMH) course material to suit your organization or facility needs. The intent of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to deliver the theory as well as hands-on demonstration. The course content has been designed to ensure you become confident and comfortable in demonstrating and coaching participants to use the S.A.F.E. handling techniques required to reduce their risk of injury.

To support your practice, we provide a safe learning environment where you will demonstrate your knowledge regarding the theory behind the causes of musculoskeletal injuries and prevention techniques and take what you have learned and use it in your daily activities and work life.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Manual Materials Handling (MIP MMH) Train the Trainer

This 2 day in-person or on-line course is designed to ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver the Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention – Manual Materials Handling (MMH) course material to suit your organization or facility needs. The intent of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to deliver the theory as well as hands-on demonstration. The course content has been designed to ensure you become confident and comfortable in demonstrating and coaching participants to use the S.A.F.E. handling techniques required to reduce their risk of injury.

To support your practice, we provide a safe learning environment where you will demonstrate your knowledge regarding the theory behind the causes of musculoskeletal injuries and prevention techniques and take what you have learned and use it in your daily activities and work life.

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention - Safe Resident Handling (MIP SRH) Train the Trainer

This 3 day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course is designed to ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver the Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention –Safe Resident Handling (SRH) course material to suit your organization or facility needs. The intent of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to deliver the theory as well as hands-on demonstration. The course content has been designed to ensure you become confident and comfortable in demonstrating and coaching participants to use the S.A.F.E. handling techniques required to reduce their risk of injury.

To support your practice, we provide a safe learning environment where you will demonstrate your knowledge regarding the theory behind the causes of musculoskeletal injuries and prevention techniques and take what you have learned and use it in your daily activities and work life.

Work Site Inspections Train the Trainer

This 2-day scheduled in-person or virtual instructor-led course examines work site inspections –an essential part of ensuring your workplace is safe. During the first part of the course, you will examine the theory behind proper inspections then perform a worksite inspection under the guidance of an instructor.

The second part of this course is designed to ensure that you are well prepared to adapt and deliver theWork Site Inspection course material to suit your organizational or facility needs. To achieve this, the focus shifts to examining how to break down and present the course content to ensure it is relevant and useful; along with key points to introduce to your participants, a variety of industry-specific examples and proven tips for setting up the course exercises.

By providing a combination of instructor-led facilitation, student participation, course work, coaching and presentation practice you will be able to demonstrate your understanding, and the requirements for delivering an effective work site inspections training program. The train-the-trainer course is designed to ensure you are proficient with the course content, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals, as well as able to apply comprehensive and useful educational strategies to confidently present, demonstrate and coach participants to correctly perform a work site inspection.

Training Policies

Purpose

While we realize scheduling conflicts occur, significant time, effort, and expense is required to organize courses. As soon as a course is confirmed, the policy regarding cancellation fees will apply. CCSA’s cancellation fees cover up-front course delivery expenses (e.g. booked transportation, etc.).

Course Cancellation Guidelines

  • Course cancellations must be sent by email to the CCSA office (OHS@ab-ccsa.ca). CCSA will acknowledge receipt of cancellation by email. Please retain this email as it is your proof of cancellation.
  • Cancellation periods indicated indicated in the Cancellation Policy are based on the course start date.

CCSA Course Cancellation

In the event that CCSA cancels a scheduled course due to unforeseen circumstances (e.g., instructor illness, inclement weather, etc.), CCSA will:

  • waive cancellation fees
  • reschedule the course

Course Postponement, Rescheduling and Inclement Weather

Special consideration may be given for courses where a CCSA member may be required to cancel or postpone due to severe weather and/or road conditions or states of emergency.

Waiving or making exceptions to cancellation fees for extenuating circumstances (e.g., local emergency) is at the sole discretion of the Executive Director.

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