After completing this course a student will be able to:
1. Examine the moral, legal and ethical considerations of health and safety management.
2. Investigate the social and economic impacts of real world accidents.
3. Examine and categorize the safety related tasks, duties and obligations of human resource professionals.
4. Explain how to access and analyze current Safety Statistics Reports.
5. Create industry specific safety policies including proactive workplace policies to address workplace violence, aggression, and violence.
6. Calculate injury frequency and severity rates.
7. Create health and safety plans, forms and/or reports for incident investigation, employer incident reporting, functional assessment, risk assessment, workplace inspection, health and safety meeting minutes, and emergency evacuation.
8. Analyze Occupational Safety Regulations, and the role of WorkSafe BC (including the incorporation of important legislation such as Bill C-45).
9. Examine basic human psychology and physiology, and the impact of chemical and biological agents on human physiology.
10. Examine the impact of psychosocial hazards on human psychology and physiology.
11. Examine the impact of aggression, violence and harassment on human psychology and physiology.
12. Identify training options, certification options, and required training types and timing including "first aid attendant" workplace requirements.
13. Examine management information system tracking and reporting requirements.
14. Examine health and safety committee requirements, and conduct a "workplace inspection and health and safety meeting."
15. Examine employer requirements to accommodate injured employees and be able to design a "graduated return to work program."