Employee Health & Safety Training - Supervisor Training

As part of our Health and Safety Program and in compliance with legislated requirements, all Humber employees are required to attend health and safety training, including training on workplace violence and harassment.

Supervisor Session (Full-Day)

This training session is intended to familiarize Humber managers, supervisors, and faculty who manage or supervise employees or students with their rights and responsibilities for workplace health and safety. Topics covered will include:

Health and Safety at Humber
Managing Health and Safety
Occupational Health and Safety Legislation
Emergency Response and Reporting
Your Duties and Responsibilities
Humber JOHSC
Due Diligence in the Workplace
Overview of Workplace Hazards
WHMIS
Preventing Workplace Violence and Harassment
Health and Safety Resources

Guidelines for Classifying Employees as a Supervisor

The Act defines a supervisor as a person who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker.

Examples of Charge and Authority:

Ability to: hire, fire, exercise discipline, give awards or bonuses, approve vacation time, promote or demote, place tenders
Controlling: rate of pay, what equipment can be rented
Deciding: hours of work, make-up of work crew, buying equipment.
Meeting with workers to: go over job details, review safety issue

Supervisor may include: lead hand, lab technologist, work study 'supervisor' in a higher risk environment (a standard office environment is not considered higher risk). Faculty employees or Support staff who 'supervise' students in an industrial/chemical/biological lab should be considered a 'supervisor' for this training. We want to extend our duty of care to our students and ensure that employees have thorough and appropriate training.

To register for one of the sessions, please contact margaret.fung@humber.ca.

PLEASE NOTE: To register for the Supervisor's Health and Safety Awareness e-course, please contact margaret.fung@humber.ca.