Safety Leadership for Site Supervisors
The supervisor's legal and practical role in preventing injuries on a construction site: who is a supervisor under the BC Workers Compensation Act and OHS Regulation, prime contractor duties and qualified persons, due diligence, specific records, graduated enforcement and WorkSafeBC inspections, the site-specific safety plan and emergency response with fall rescue, orientations, training records and subcontractor prequalification, job hazard analyses and field-level hazard assessments with serious injury and fatality potential and the hierarchy of controls, toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting, layered inspections and corrective action, incident notification and investigation timelines, working at heights, excavation, cranes and rigging, mobile equipment, electrical work, silica, heat and fatigue, leading indicators, just culture and worker participation, and a capstone safety leadership plan, following one six-storey mixed-use building in Kelowna.
CON-355 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 3 h 47 min
Offered by HSM University · Construction Management
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the duties that British Columbia's OHS law places on supervisors and the prime contractor, identify who is a supervisor, and assign qualified persons to high-risk work.
- Show due diligence through specific, timely records, graduated and consistent enforcement, and correct conduct during a WorkSafeBC inspection.
- Prepare and maintain a site-specific safety plan with a hazard register by phase, an emergency response plan with rescue, first aid and welfare provisions, and traffic and public protection.
- Run site orientations, task briefings and support for new workers, manage training records, and prequalify and manage subcontractors for safety.
- Prepare job hazard analyses and field-level hazard assessments, rate risk with attention to serious injury and fatality potential, and choose controls using the hierarchy of controls.
- Lead effective toolbox talks, make the stop-work authority real and build near-miss reporting that is easy, blame-free and answered.
- Plan layered inspections, rank findings, and manage corrective actions to verified closure, using observations to find the causes of risky practices.
- Report incidents to WorkSafeBC as required, investigate within the required timelines, find causes beyond the individual, and choose effective corrective actions.
- Plan and supervise work at heights, including the fall protection hierarchy, anchors, fall clearance, guardrails, ladders, scaffolds and aerial platforms.
- Supervise excavation, crane and rigging, mobile equipment and electrical work, and control silica, heat, impairment and fatigue.
- Build a safety culture with leading indicators, a focus on serious injury and fatality potential, psychological safety, just culture and worker participation.
- Prepare a safety leadership plan for a new project from lessons learned, with roles, routines, life-saving rules, critical controls and measures.
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 47 min total · final exam
- 1 Supervisor duties under provincial OHS law 19 min · quiz
- 2 Due diligence, records and working with regulators 18 min · quiz
- 3 Site safety plans and emergency response 18 min · quiz
- 4 Orientations, training and subcontractor safety 18 min · quiz
- 5 Hazard assessments and the hierarchy of controls 21 min · quiz
- 6 Toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting 19 min · quiz
- 7 Inspections and corrective action 19 min · quiz
- 8 Incident reporting and investigation 18 min · quiz
- 9 High-risk work I: working at heights 19 min · quiz
- 10 High-risk work II: excavation, lifting, electrical and health hazards 18 min · quiz
- 11 Building a safety culture 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a safety leadership plan for a new project 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
The supervisor's legal and practical role in preventing injuries on a construction site: who is a supervisor under the BC Workers Compensation Act and OHS Regulation, prime contractor duties and qualified persons, due diligence, specific records, graduated enforcement and WorkSafeBC inspections, the site-specific safety plan and emergency response with fall rescue, orientations, training records and subcontractor prequalification, job hazard analyses and field-level hazard assessments with serious injury and fatality potential and the hierarchy of controls, toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting, layered inspections and corrective action, incident notification and investigation timelines, working at heights, excavation, cranes and rigging, mobile equipment, electrical work, silica, heat and fatigue, leading indicators, just culture and worker participation, and a capstone safety leadership plan, following one six-storey mixed-use building in Kelowna.
Part of the Construction Management stream, typically taken in year 3.