September 2023 Safety Scoop: Back Injury Prevention

Back Injury Prevention

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September 2023

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This month we would like to highlight Back Injury Prevention. These injuries not only happen in the workplace, but also through daily activities. Back injuries can be very painful and can degenerate over time which can significantly impact your life long term.

Here's the Scoop:

• Material Handling Guidelines

• Basic Lifting and Lowering Techniques

• Maintaining a healthy back

  And more!

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Back Injury Prevention

Ergonomics is the science of designing the work environment, equipment, tasks and job to the worker. Good ergonomics is proven to lessen muscle fatigue, increase productivity and reduce the number and severity of musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs). AHS offers two free online modules: one for basic awareness on injuries, and prevention strategies, and the second on Manual Material Handling which teaches you to reduce risks and prevent injuries.

Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) Prevention course:

1. Describe what musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) are and recognize how they can happen;

2. Identify how to assess workplace hazards, risk factors and controls to reduce risk of injury;

3. Demonstrate ways to prevent musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) and recognize what to do if they get injured at work; and

4. Identify next steps for completing the AHS injury prevention training.

Manual Materials Handling course:

• Recognize workplace hazards and risk factors that could lead to an injury for manual handling tasks;

• Assess hazards and identify controls that can reduce the risk of injury from manual handling tasks; and

• Identify safe body positions and movements for manual handling.

Visit our course calendar to explore other courses, see availability in your region, and register today!

August 2023 Safety Scoop: Forklift Safety

Forklift Safety

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August 2023

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This month we would like to highlight Forklift safety. Forklift trucks are crucial equipment needed to move materials safely and efficiently through the workplace. However, when used improperly, they can cause property damage, severe injury or death.

Here's the Scoop:

• We’ll look at training, competency and avoiding complacency

• We’ll discuss 5 Ways to improve forklift safety

  And more!

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Forklift Operator

This 1-day certification course is designed to provide participants with classroom training and practical skills of safe forklift (with vertical mast) operation. It also offers a practical confirmation for forklift operators with various levels of experience. Our forklift operating training course teaches forklift drivers to operate in a safe and efficient manner.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Perform proper handling techniques of a forklift.

• Have knowledge of pertinent legislation, such as the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act for Alberta.

• Have a strong understanding of forklift stability, including centrifugal force, leverage, momentum, speed, centre of gravity, lifting, turning load centre, and tip-overs. You’ll also understand stability of triangles and trapezoids.

• Have Knowledge in operator responsibilities, which include unloading materials safely, inspecting machinery to ensure there are no needs for repair, keeping updated activity logs and records of inventory, complying with regulations, and maintaining a safe environment.

Visit our course calendar to explore other courses, see availability in your region, and register today!

July 2023 Safety Scoop: Safety Culture

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July 2023

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Safety Culture is the beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to risks within the workplace. This month, we would like to highlight the importance of a healthy safety culture within your organization. Good safety culture takes years to build across all levels of the organization, but only a short time to stall or destroy. Learn techniques that will assist in building and maintaining a healthy safety culture in your workplace with this months Safety Scoop.

Here's the Scoop:

• Discover why safety culture is important

• What are some of the mistakes that break down safety culture?  

• How can your company functionally practice a safe culture? 

• And much more!

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Leading Safety

Leading Safety is a two-day course that will develop safety-conscious leaders by supplying necessary tools combined with educational practices to effectively influence fellow workers and team members. The new Leading Safety course will help your leaders ensure compliance for your company’s health and safety management systems are not only met, but exceeded.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Tracking and trending

• Performance observation 

• Enforcement

• Training and education

• Developing a productive and inclusive culture

Visit our course calendar to explore other courses, see availability in your region, and register today!

June 2023 Safety Scoop: Outdoor Safety

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June 2023

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With Summer around the corner, it is a great time to review Outdoor Safety. Outdoor work environments often present unique hazards and risks compared to indoor settings. Some of these risks may seem insignificant, however could lead to serious injury. If you are looking for more information on Outdoor Safety, click the link below to learn more!

Here's the Scoop:

• Discover why outdoor safety important at work

• What type of risks are there to working outdoors? 

• Why is outdoor safety important at home? 

• And much more!

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Hazard Assessment

This 1-day course teaches participants how to properly identify, assess and control workplace hazards in accordance with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety legislation. Participants will learn the MHSA basic method of recognizing, evaluating and documenting workplace hazards.

Hazard assessment is the keystone of a successful health and safety management system and, therefore, must be performed correctly and reviewed regularly to ensure the workplace remains free of unnecessary hazards.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

Develop a comprehensive approach to hazard identification for your workplace

• Identify the common types of existing and potential health & safety hazards

• Evaluate hazards associated to specific jobs and tasks

• Prioritize hazards in terms of the level of risk they present to workers

• Identify practical hazard control methods applicable to your workplace

• Review and maintain hazard assessments on a regular basis.

March 2023 Safety Scoop: 2023 OHS Changes

March 2023

Our Safety Scoop this month is focused is on Alberta OHS Legislation and changes coming in March of 2023. OHS legislation(Act, Regulation & Code)applies to all workplaces and all industries across the Province. . Employers are required to be compliant with changes coming March 31/23. Understand what changes are coming and what in specific will impact the manufacturing industry.

Here's the Scoop:

• Learn what the (3) specific categories are in Legislation(Act, Regulations & code) and what information can be found within these books.

• Learn what key changes will most impact workers in the manufacturing industry on March 31st. 2023.

• We will break down the specific changes in Parts of the Code specific to industry such as:  First Aid, Noise and Managing Controls of Hazardous Energy

• And much more!

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Leading Safety

The new Leading Safety course will help your leaders ensure compliance for your company’s health and safety management systems are not only met, but exceeded. Supervisors and managers will learn how to incorporate health and safety into their everyday planning, create a safe work environment, and help make a lasting contribution to the reduction of incidents.

Leading Safety is a two-day course that will develop safety-conscious leaders by supplying necessary tools combined with educational practices to effectively influence fellow workers and team members.

By the end of this course, supervisors and managers will be able to measure their success through:

• Tracking and trending

• Performance observation 

• Enforcement

• Training and education

• Developing a productive and inclusive culture

Visit our course calendar to explore other courses, see availability in your region, and register today!

Safety Scoop February 2023- Complacency in the Workplace

February 2023

How to Prevent Complacency

Our Safety Scoop this month is focused is on how to prevent complacency in the workplace. Complacency in the workplace can cause unnecessary incidents and accidents and lower awareness of deficiencies and hazards. This can lead to taking shortcuts that are dangerous, creating unnecessary risks. Complacency can be prevented, and employees are the key to this prevention.

February’s Safety Scoop includes:

• Learn what complacency is.

• Learn how to identify symptoms and causes of complacency in workforce.

• Learn tools on how to prevent incidents due to complacency.

• And much more!

Check out this free resource now: Safety Scoop Feb 202

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Leading Safety

The new Leading Safety course will help your leaders ensure compliance for your company’s health and safety management systems are not only met, but exceeded. Supervisors and managers will learn how to incorporate health and safety into their everyday planning, create a safe work environment, and help make a lasting contribution to the reduction of incidents.

Leading Safety is a two-day course that will develop safety-conscious leaders by supplying necessary tools combined with educational practices to effectively influence fellow workers and team members.

By the end of this course, supervisors and managers will be able to measure their success through:

• Tracking and trending

• Performance observation 

• Enforcement

• Training and education

• Developing a productive and inclusive culture

Safety Scoop- Jan 2023 Legislative Rights & Responsibilities

Safety Scoop- January 2023

Our Safety Scoop this month is focused on all levels of workers knowing and understanding their rights and responsibilities according to Alberta OHS Act. Legislation is there to protect workers and employers from incidents and injuries, but it can only do so when everyone knows how it applies to them on the worksite. If everyone understands rights and responsibilities it can also assist to creating a safer work environment for everyone.  

January’s Safety Scoop will help everyone get on the same page!

Here's the Scoop:

• Learn what Alberta OHS legislation is.

• Learn what the three basic rights for all workers in Alberta are.

• Break down how the rights apply to workers.

• Learn what responsibilities workers, supervisor and employers have according to legislation and how the three rights play into this.

• And much more!

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Navigating OHS Legislation

Reading, navigating and understanding legislation is a crucial skill to ensure the workplace is following the law and as safe as can be. This is an introductory course to Alberta OHS legislation. Learn how to find your way around the OHS handbook (both the hardcopy and the website), by taking our Navigating Alberta OHS Legislation course.

This 1-day course gives the participants a basic understanding of the structure of Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety legislation. Participants will learn to successfully navigate the OHS Handbook by completing individual exercises and activities. Each participant will receive an OHS Handbook to participate in this course.

Topics covered in the training include:

• Introduction to Alberta’s OHS Legislation

• Alberta’s OHS Act

• Alberta’s OHS Regulation

• Alberta’s OHS Code and Explanation Guide

• Navigating the handbook & OHS Website

• Learn key skills to navigate legislation and locate specific sections and topics

December 2022 Safety Scoop: Moving Machinery & Equipment

Safety Scoop December 2022

December 2022

This month’s safety scoop has dropped. This month we are talking about a huge element of the manufacturing industry- Machines and moving equipment are a pivotal part of workplace processes.  While moving parts are essential to the operation of any business, they can be extremely dangerous if you don’t fully understand the hazards and controls.

December’s Safety Scoop will discuss identifying hazardous parts of equipment and controls that are in place to protect you from these hazards.

Here's the Scoop:

-        What legislation applying to moving parts and equipment?

-        What are the most common safe work practices when working around machinery?

-        What are the most common injuries and how can I recognize them?

-        How can I prevent them?

-        What are the different types of hazard controls when working with machinery?

-        And much more…

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Basic Machine Guarding

Working in and around machines and equipment is an every day task in the manufacturing industry which leaves our workers at risk of injuries. This 1-day course teaches participants the importance of safety guards and devices on heavy machinery to prevent machine related injuries. Employee injuries due to exposure to unguarded or inadequately guarded machines are preventable and this course focuses on recognizing and controlling general hazards associated with the operation of machinery. Learn the importance of lock out tag out, employers and employees responsibilites for safe operation of machinery.

Topics covered in the training include:

Recognizing and controlling common machinery hazards

• Point of operation guarding

• Power transmission devices

• Machinery operating controls

• Hazardous motions and actions

• Alberta OH&S Safeguard requirements

• Recognize the advantages and limitations of safeguarding devices

https://www.mhsa.ab.ca/basic-machine-guarding

November 2022 Safety Scoop- Cyberbullying

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Last months Safety Scoop focused on Cyberbullying. We joined forces with IT specialists Alt-tech Inc. to extend workplace prevention initiatives into the home..

We will review how to identify Cyberbullying and what to do if you, a loved one or a co-worker has been subject to this serious and growing concern.

Here's The Scoop:

• What impact does cyberbullying have?

• What effect does cyberbullying have on this next generation?

• How can cyberbullying be prevented?

•  What are some safe practices when working online?

• And much more…

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  Workplace Violence & Harassment

  Harassment and violence can occur at any worksite. With increasingly stringent regulations being rolled out to protect workers, it is now more important than ever to provide your employees, managers, and supervisors with workplace harassment training. This course from MHSA trains all your workers and helps you — the employer — to maintain compliance with new Alberta rules and regulations.

  Topics covered in the training include:

  • Alberta OH&S Code Part 27 Violence

  • Statistical analysis to help you understand the prevalence of workplace violence and harassment

  • Types of workplace violence and harassment

  • The negative impact of workplace violence and harassment

  • Identifying potential workplace violence and harassment

  • How to avoid workplace violence and harassment, no matter your role in the company

  • Developing and implementing prevention plans, including policies and procedures

October 1, 2022 Safety Scoop: Ergonomics

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This months Safety Scoop focus is on Ergonomics. Ergonomics is the discipline that focuses on the design of equipment, tasks and work environments to minimize worker fatigue, discomfort, and injury while still maximizing performance.

Ergonomics can be described in many ways. It can be described as the study of people’s efficiency in their working environment or even the science of designing or arranging things in use to interact with the body most efficiently. In simple words, ergonomics is the ‘fit’ between people and their tasks.

Here's The Scoop:

• Why is ergonomics important?

• What effect does ergonomics have on the Manufacturing Industry?

• How can ergonomic injuries be prevented?

•  Who can conduct an ergonomic assessment?

• And much more…

Basic Machine Guarding

Injuries in the workplace due to improperly set up machine and equipment or unguarded or inadequately guarded machines are preventable. This 1-day course focuses on recognizing and controlling the general hazards that can be encountered when operating machinery and equipment in the workplace. This course focuses on teaching the importance of safety guards and devices on heavy machinery.

Topics include:

• Recognizing and controlling common machinery hazards

• Point of operation guarding

• Power transmission devices

• Machinery operating controls

• Hazardous motions and actions

• Alberta OH&S Safeguard requirements

Visit our course calendar to explore other courses, see availability in your region, and register today!