Health and Safety at Work

Please join our Guest Speaker, the Community Legal Worker from the Workers’ Health and Safety Legal Clinic.

In this talk, we discuss in depth the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and how it looks to keep workplaces healthy and safe.

– Understand a worker’s basic rights and responsibilities and how that connect with the responsibilities that employers and supervisors have in creating a safe workplace.
– Addressing COVID-19 illness and employer obligations
– Workplace hazard identification and the industry-specific factors that can contribute to workplace injury and illness
– How to address chemicals in the workplace – Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
– Outlining the workplace refusal process and specifically how to refuse unsafe work.
– What to do if you get injured or ill at work – What is Workers’ Compensation Benefits and how to access it?
– How to make a health and safety complaint?

To attend the webinar, please first register with YMCA Newcomer Information Centre.

If you are already our client, please login into our community and register under “Upcoming Webinar“.