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Spotlight on: Responsibilities of Joint Health and Safety Committees

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Change is afoot, and our training department is responding to it!

As of April 2017, WorkSafeBC’s changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations around Joint Health and Safety committees and Worker Health and Safety Representatives makes training mandatory. Anyone joining a Joint Health and Safety Committee is required to take at least eight hours of training. ICBA is pleased to be able to offer this training as part of our continued commitment to exceptional customer service for our members and the construction industry as a whole (remember, you don’t have to be a member of ICBA to take our courses!).

Participants will learn:

  • How to use the OHS Regulation and WC Act to access health & safety requirements;
  • How to explain the roles and functions of the Joint Committee and the Worker Representatives;
  • How to perform an incident investigation;
  • How to perform a formal site inspection; and
  • How to:
    • Promote workplace health and safety
    • Assist in ensuring the health and safety program elements are implemented;
    • Conduct and participate in Joint Committee Meetings; and
    • Work cooperatively to address workers’ health and safety concerns.

Our first session is September 7 in Burnaby! We’re also offering it on October 12 and again on November 16.  Interested in taking this course or any of our other upcoming workshops? Check out the full list here.

Summer is the perfect time to take an online course!

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And you’re in luck, we offer lots of them! Summer is a great time to take an online course, because you can take it at your own pace (is the nice weather beckoning you outside right now?) and it can easily fit around your current work and social schedule. Plus, most of our online courses offer Gold Seal Credits and BC Housing Continued Professional Development points.

Perhaps Pipeline Construction Safety Training, or First Level Supervisor Training? Or maybe you’re more interested in Introduction to Construction Estimating, or Communication, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution. We offer all of these courses, and more! Check out our online course calendar for the full list.

Still interested in a classroom-based course? Check out our upcoming courses here, or subscribe to our newsletter here for monthly updates on what’s coming up in your area. We’re even coming back to Yukon in October! Sign up here for our Whitehorse newsletter.

Feeling stressed at work?

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You need our Managing Stress in the Workplace course! We are very excited to welcome a new instructor, Jeff Cartwright, to our training provider pool, and we’re even more excited to talk about our brand-new course, taking place in Burnaby in September.

Here’s the course outline:

 

In this workshop, learn how to recognize stress, how it affects your work and personal life, and effective strategies to handle stress in the workplace. You will also learn how to reduce your stress and set goals for effectively managing internal and external stressors.

Topics to be covered:

*   What is Stress?

*   How do we React to Stress?

*   Exploring our Sources of Stress

*   Stress Management Strategies

*   Stress Reduction/Relaxation (including practical exercises)

*   Personal Goal Setting

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Want to lead a high-performance team?

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You need this course! Our brand-new (literally, we just set the schedule for the first two sessions this morning) Leading a High-Performance Team workshop is here!

Here’s the course outline:

The ever increasing pace and complexity of today’s workplace is driving greater interdependence, making teamwork more important to organizational success by the day.

Participants will deepen their understanding of leadership, communication, motivation/engagement, team dynamics, delegation/empowerment.

Participants will learn proven, powerful and practical strategies and techniques they can apply the next day and will last a lifetime.

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We have two brand new courses!

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CITN and its association partners are constantly on the lookout for new courses that we can offer the public. You don’t have to be a member of us or one of our association partners to register for a course!

We are extremely excited to announce that we have two new course offerings for June: Arc Flash Safety Workshop and Introduction to Electrical Quality Management Systems (QA/QC). Let’s start with our Arc Flash Safety Workshop:

This course is designed for front line workers responsible for electrical systems in the CSA Z462-12 electrical safety standard. Participants will gain a full understanding of hazards encountered while operating or maintaining electrical installations in the low voltage (below 750 volts) class including a full understanding of the arc hazard categorization, appropriate personal protective equipment selection and safe work procedures.
This one day workshop is designed to assist organizations to identify shock and arc flash hazards and prevent injuries and incidents associated with those hazards.
Our first session will take place in Burnaby on June 21, and then in Victoria on June 26.

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