The Omicron variant has shuttered many businesses, but not in the construction sector. Along with COVID precautions, health and safety training needs to be current. Is yours?
Occupational health and safety training and the Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) have been designated essential too. We can work with you to make sure all legally required health and safety training is up-to-date.
Most critically, construction sector employers must ensure
all workers in their employ successfully complete Working at Heights (WAH) training
before working at heights and using a fall protection system. We continue to offer
WAH training and
WAH Refresher training in safe, in-person classes in communities and workplaces across the province. Our schedule also includes a select number of these training programs on weekends to accommodate busy schedules.
Registration for classes remains open until the day prior to delivery but to avoid disappointment, register and secure your seat today
https://www.whsc.on.ca/Training/Training-Registration/Working-At-Heights-Training/
WHSC WAH training—Legally required. Safely delivered.
Legally mandated Working at Heights training must be approved by Ontario’s Chief Prevention Officer (CPO) and delivered by an approved provider. Approved
WAH training is
valid for three years from the date of successful completion. For continued compliance, employers must ensure workers complete an approved
WAH refresher training prior to this three year expiry date and every three years thereafter.
Employers are further required by regulation to maintain confirmation of training records for their workers and share those with a Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development inspector upon request. WHSC helps with this obligation too. Participants will
immediately receive a record of training upon successful completion of WHSC
WAH training or
WAH Refresher training. Replacement documentation is also available when needed.
WHSC WAH training offers:
✅ Small class sizes
✅ Affordable pricing
✅ Ensured learning
✅ Same-day record of training
✅ Approval by the government’s CPO
✅ Delivery by experienced instructors in the trades
✅ Delivery in a COVID-safe learning environment
WHSC has consistently communicated the need to take
every reasonable precaution to
prevent COVID-19 transmission in workplaces, communities, AND our own training classrooms. At this time, we are only scheduling
Working at Heights Training in-person because hands-on, practical activities are necessary to deliver this life-saving training. At each training site we have implemented
strict COVID-19 precautions, including pre-class screening, reduced class size to ensure physical distancing and mandatory masking. Enhanced disinfection and hand hygiene protocol is also in place.
Proof of vaccination is also included in our multi-layered approach to protecting training participants, instructors and staff entering WHSC scheduled in-person training programs. This requirement aligns with the Government of Ontario provision requiring full vaccination and supporting documents to gain access to certain indoor businesses and settings including meeting and event spaces.
In advance of training,
download your enhanced documentary proof of vaccination from the
Ontario government website. Along with your vaccination documentation, be sure to bring one piece of your government issued photo identification to your training session. You will be asked to present both prior to classroom entry.
Don’t see a training date and location that works for you?
Contact a
WHSC training services representative nearest you.
We also work directly with unions and employers to bring
WAH training to those with an appropriate and safe training facility.
Need quick compliance with other essential and mandatory training? See the many other programs scheduled for delivery in our
COVID-safe virtual classrooms.
Need more information still?
Check out our online Working at Heights resources
Regulated working at heights training works and needed: studies
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