Heat Stress
Working Safely When Exposed to Heat
$24.95
| Quantity Discounts | |
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| 5 | $22.95 / course |
| 10 | $20.95 / course |
| 25 | $18.95 / course |
| 50 | $16.95 / course |
| 100 | $14.95 / course |
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Heat Stress Awareness Online Training
Learn to recognize, prevent, and respond to heat stress in Canadian workplaces.
This comprehensive online course provides essential knowledge for recognizing, preventing, and responding to heat-related hazards in Canadian workplaces. Participants will learn how heat stress develops, who is most at risk, and the steps required to create a safer working environment in compliance with provincial and federal occupational health and safety standards.
Through six detailed modules, learners explore employer and worker responsibilities, how to identify and assess heat stress hazards, and how to apply the hierarchy of controls to prevent incidents. The program also covers the various types of heat stress, their symptoms, appropriate treatments, and the long-term health effects of prolonged exposure.
This course consists of 6 chapters and a final exam. Once you pass your exam, you may print your certificates of completion (wallet & wall-sized). Your training also includes a plastic wallet certificate. This card typically ships within one day using Canada Post regular mail.
Training may be paused or resumed at any time, is fully narrated, and includes interactive exercises to ensure understanding of course content. This training program is intended to be completed entirely online.
By the end of the course, participants will understand proper reporting and investigation procedures, enabling them to take proactive measures to protect themselves and their coworkers.
Course Outline
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1. Introduction to Heat Stress
The introductory chapter of this course outlines the structure of the course, what you need to do to earn your certificate, and some other information about the course.
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2. Workplace Roles and Responsibilities
This module covers workplace roles and responsibilities of employers, supervisors, a JHSC and workers including the internal responsibility system, the flow and functions of PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act), and how to identify different workplace parties that can help mitigate hazards related to heat stress.
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3. Hazard Identification
This chapter defines heat stress, describes a heat stress assessment and its purpose, who should complete a heat stress assessment, and how to understand exposure limits and best practices related to heat stress.
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4. Types of Heat Stress
The chapter helps trainees identify the types, signs and symptoms of heat stress, how to treat different types of heat stress, and understand the potential long-term effects of heat stress.
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5. Preventative Measures and Controls
The fifth module defines the hierarchy of controls applied to heat stress and how your employer can help prevent heat stress using the different hazard control methods.
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6. Investigation and Reporting
The last module explains the importance of reporting near misses, incidents, illnesses, and potential and actual hazards related to heat stress, and how to report these. It also helps trainees understand the importance and purpose of investigations related to heat stress.
Bulk Discounts. Free Tools.
Depending on how many training credits you purchase, you may receive a discount. Once purchased, training credits may be used to assign training to users in your account or held for future use.
In addition to the training that you purchase, you will also have access to a number of free training management tools. These tools allow you to add and manage users in your account, distribute training courses, view training progress, print certificates, view records of training, and create customized certification reports to ensure your users are always in compliance.
Additional Services
We put our team of professionals to work to build solutions that improve results, save time, relieve your budget and keep your people safe. In addition to our training programs, we also provide Consulting Services, Train The Trainer Solutions, Course Authoring, and Integration services.
It is our mandate to develop plans and programs that meet the unique needs and environments where staff carry out their work on a daily basis, creating customized programs that deal with risks specifically for each situation.
Our consulting services include OHS Auditing, Safety Policy Development, Procedure Writing, Training Needs Analysis, Safety Inspections, Job Safety & Hazard Analysis, Emergency Response Planning, and Fall Prevention & Detection.
Customize and control the learning experience of your staff or customers with our Train the Trainer offerings and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with our lifetime complimentary update service.
These packages educate new trainers on how to deliver in-person training to adult learners. Packages include Instructor Certification courses, expanded reference manuals, ready to customize classroom presentations, exam templates, certificates, and participant guides for students.
Deliver original content courses to your staff to address the unique hazards associated with your workplace.
Our team of industry leading instructional designers and subject matter experts are able to develop defensible, effective, and efficient training programs that you can deliver as elearning content, self-learning course books, reference materials for classroom teaching, or as an app that integrates with existing frameworks. Training programs can be something that is built from scratch, or modified using pre-existing course materials from our library or your own.