Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) course—“Patient Handling” will be offered in Mississauga Nov 2004.
Studies show that the main cause of musculoskeletal injuries suffered by health care workers is patient handling.
This Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) 4-day course provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to apply ergonomic principles while identifying, assessing and controlling patient handling hazards. Participants will assess workplace lifting needs, discuss how to develop a lifting program, and
experience hands-on use of lifting equipment. The course will be held at a health care facility in Mississauga, November 8-11, 2004. For registration information, click here.
Who should attend?
Joint health and safety committee members and health and safety representatives, workers, and employers in the health care sector, all benefit from learning how to prevent musculoskeletal injuries caused by patient handling.
Since part of the mandate of a local health and safety structure involves preventing injuries, worker health and safety representatives should approach their employers and ask them to send workers and committee members to the course. It is essential that joint health and safety committees understand how to identify,
assess and control hazards to carry out their functions in the workplace.
The Occupational Health and Safety Act obligates employers to inform workers about the hazards in their work, adopt work practices, and implement precautions that minimize those hazards, and train workers to perform their work safely. Joint health and safety committees and health and safety representatives can also ask
employers to contact the WHSC to deliver the program in their workplaces.
What other courses are offered in my area?
The Workers Centre, a non-profit organization initiated by labour and funded since 1986 by the WSIB, has become the premier health and safety training organization in Ontario. The WHSC delivers health and safety certification training regulated by the WSIB as well as other health and safety training on almost every
topic.
The WHSC’s fall schedule outlines their full roster of courses across Ontario. The WHSC offers Part 1 and Part 2 certification training, and sector and topic based courses appropriate for every type of workplace. The course schedule can be obtained online at www.whsc.on.ca.
In addition to the scheduled courses, workplaces can contact the WHSC to arrange other courses or workplace training.
A snapshot of other WHSC courses around Ontario for the fall
The WHSC always offers many locations and dates for certification training. See the schedules for more details. Other courses in the fall roster include:
· WHIMIS—all across Ontario
· Asbestos hazards, Workplace Violence, VDTs—Sudbury, November and December 2004
