Coming Soon. This course can be used as one of two electives required to complete the Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management (SHEM) offered through Great Plains College. To learn more about this professional program, which is the first occupational health and safety related diploma offered entirely through web-based interactive instruction, visit the program page and book an appointment with an adviser.
This course will provide students with an excellent Introduction to Canadian Health & Safety Law. Students will learn the essential elements of the Canadian legal system, it application to OHS law, and the setting, communication and enforcement of OHS legal standards. Case studies, practical application of the law, and understanding how the law relates to OHS management systems will all be important themes throughout all the course modules. A review of the Bill C-45 amendments to the Criminal code will also be covered.
Begin at any time and set the course schedule that is right for you. From time to time, learners will find certain subject matter of particular interest to them, and want to explore it further. Although this can be done independent of the SHEM program, it may be possible to achieve credit for this independent study, providing the direction and content of the study is consistent with the goals of SHEM. This elective option is for learners who wish to drill down into a topic to meet personal learning needs specific to their own operational environment.
Begin at any time and set the course schedule that is right for you. Workers are the most underutilized capital in any industrialized country. A useful definition of training is the provision of skills and knowledge that enable the learner to be a full contributing partner with the goals of the organization. But telling is not teaching. And effective instruction must be based on a sound needs analysis that produces valid learning goals.
This course builds on the Workplace Ergonomics course and highlights more advanced techniques and systems that enable learners to provide higher level solutions across a wider range of operational contexts. This course can be used as one of two electives required to complete the Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management (SHEM) offered through Great Plains College.
Begin at any time and set the course schedule that is right for you. This course builds on the foundational skills taught in the Foundations Course, and helps learners apply disability management solutions at a higher level across industries and jurisdictions. This course can be used as one of two electives required to complete the Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management (SHEM) offered through Great Plains College.
Begin at any time and set the course schedule that is right for you. In emerging organizational cultures, various models of extending ownership of safety program policy and administration is manifesting. In many Canadian jurisdictions, joint safety committees are a regulatory requirement. In others, they are seen as a vehicle to improve corporate culture and enhance mutual trust/respect across the hierarchy.
Disability management is most effective when integrated and embedded into the strategies and culture of an organization. This course introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the concepts and practices of disability management, and addresses how to design, implement, and market an effective integrated disability management program.
Informed safety practitioners understand the dynamic relationship between intelligent recommendations for safety improvements, versus those that are not defensible. Balancing the very real tensions between available resources and protecting those resources is becoming an expected part of the modern safety practitioners intellectual toolbox. This course is the first of a three-part series that equip learners with tools to identify, prioritize and manage risks to the organizations physical, human and financial assets.
Environmental management has been merging in to general safety management practice since at least the early 90s. Successful safety management requires that practitioners grasp foundational principles of ecology as they relate to industrial and public operations across sectors and jurisdictions. This course is a required for the completion of the Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management (SHEM) offered through Great Plains College.