School Safety Essentials for Staff
Health and safety for teachers, educational assistants, custodians, office and cafeteria staff and principals, following the invented Riverbend District School Board in Ontario: the hazards school staff face, rights and duties under the OHSA including Regulation 857 and the right to refuse, finding, rating and controlling hazards, slips, trips and falls, lifting and student transfers, WHMIS and cleaning products, indoor air, mould, asbestos and lead, custodial work, ladders and bodily fluids, workplace violence and student safety plans, harassment, stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue, reporting and investigating incidents, and joint health and safety committees, return to work and a yearly safety plan.
HSE-360 12 lessons · 4 h 18 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the main groups of hazards school staff face and why schools are an unusual workplace for health and safety.
- Explain the rights and duties of school boards, supervisors and staff under Ontario's OHSA, including the limit Regulation 857 places on teachers' right to refuse.
- Find hazards through inspections, staff reports and investigations, rate them by likelihood and severity, and choose controls using the hierarchy of controls.
- Prevent slips, trips and falls at entrances, outside, in classrooms, gyms, stages and playgrounds.
- Reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury from lifting, student transfers, kneeling, carts and computer work.
- Use WHMIS labels, safety data sheets and training to work safely with cleaning products, lab chemicals and other hazardous products, and respond to spills and exposures.
- Recognize and report indoor air quality, mould, asbestos, lead and temperature problems in school buildings.
- Work safely with floor machines, electrical equipment and ladders, and handle bodily fluids and found needles using routine practices.
- Assess and plan for workplace violence, including student safety plans, escalation, summoning help and the response after an incident.
- Recognize and respond to workplace harassment, work-related stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue.
- Report incidents to the right people within the legal deadlines and investigate them to find causes rather than blame.
- Explain the role of the joint health and safety committee, the written program and return to work, and build a data-based yearly safety plan for a school.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 18 min total · final exam
- 1 Hazards in schools: the staff view 22 min · quiz
- 2 Rights and duties of school staff in Ontario 23 min · quiz
- 3 Finding and controlling hazards in a school 22 min · quiz
- 4 Slips, trips and falls in schools 21 min · quiz
- 5 Lifting, student transfers and ergonomics 21 min · quiz
- 6 Chemicals and cleaning products 21 min · quiz
- 7 Indoor air, mould and older buildings 22 min · quiz
- 8 Custodial work, ladders and bodily fluids 21 min · quiz
- 9 Workplace violence and student behaviour incidents 22 min · quiz
- 10 Harassment, stress, noise, voice and fatigue 21 min · quiz
- 11 Reporting and investigating incidents 21 min · quiz
- 12 Joint health and safety committees, return to work and the year ahead 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Health and safety for teachers, educational assistants, custodians, office and cafeteria staff and principals, following the invented Riverbend District School Board in Ontario: the hazards school staff face, rights and duties under the OHSA including Regulation 857 and the right to refuse, finding, rating and controlling hazards, slips, trips and falls, lifting and student transfers, WHMIS and cleaning products, indoor air, mould, asbestos and lead, custodial work, ladders and bodily fluids, workplace violence and student safety plans, harassment, stress, noise, voice strain and fatigue, reporting and investigating incidents, and joint health and safety committees, return to work and a yearly safety plan.