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Construction – An Industry That Could Be Fatal
Construction is one of the most dangerous industries to work in throughout Canada. Over the last decade, over 450 Canadian construction workers have lost their lives, while more than 63,000 have experienced workplace injuries. Statistics Canada indicates that construction workers are up to 4 times more likely to experience a workplace accident than most other professionals. In addition, almost 20 billion dollars’ worth of healthcare expenditures are incurred by construction-related accidents every year.
Although the number of work-related injuries and fatalities has decreased over the past decade, it remains absolutely necessary that businesses and employees alike prepare themselves adequately for the risks associated with their profession. The following lists and packages aim to offer comprehensive guidance to employees in construction who want to complete the right safety courses for their respective jobs.
Do you know that?
Over the last decade, 450 Canadian construction workers have lost their lives.
Over the last decade, 63000 construction workers have experienced workplace injuries.
More likely to experience a workplace accident than most other professionals.
Falls from heights is the top cause of traumatic fatalities in construction.
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Courses Recommended for Construction
Incident / Accident Investigation
Those who work in the construction industry are often required to use large tools and pieces of machinery, work at height, and in environments where hazardous materials are present, practices that often result in workplace incidents. This course emphasizes the main steps of incident investigation, as well as how to make effective recommendations to prevent similar occurrences from ever happening again.
Hazard Awareness
Those who work in the construction industry are often required to use large tools and pieces of machinery, work at height, and in environments where hazardous materials are present. This course gives you information about identifying, assessing, and controlling hazards, as well as how to refuse work if conditions are unsafe.
Scaffolding Safety
Those who work in the construction industry are often required to use scaffolds to elevate and support workers and materials during the construction, repair, or cleaning of a structure or machine. The course will provide knowledge on the provision and use of scaffolding, the correct terminology and components, and the construction standards required to ensure safe places of work.
Ladder Safety
Depending on the work at height tasks, construction workers will often use ladders/stepladders in the course of their work. They can use a range of ladders/stepladders at different heights. This ladder safety training is a tool for the proper selection, care and safe use of all ladders, including stepladders, single and extension ladders, articulated ladders, and mobile ladders.
Ground Disturbance for Workers
Drilling concrete and other surfaces is only one of the many ground disturbance activities involved in the construction industry. Ground Disturbance for Workers aims to familiarize workers with the dangers and risks of disturbing the earth, especially where underground facilities, pipes, or electrical equipment are involved.
Chainsaw Safety
It is essential that any worker in the construction industry, who uses a chainsaw at work, receives full and adequate training and is competent in using a chainsaw for the work that they are to carry out. This Chainsaw Safety Course provides basic information about chainsaws and common hazards associated with the use of this dangerous tool, as well as safety standards that you can uphold to protect yourself against them at work.
Arc Flash Safety
In construction, arc flash can be deadly. It can happen anywhere you find electrical equipment or conductors. This course targets workers with little or no electrical training, but who may be required to perform activities near electrical equipment. The information and strategies included in the program are derived from the CSA Z462-18 (Canada Safety Association).
Crane Operator
Cranes are vital for the construction of tall structures. Failing to operate or work around one of these industrial load-bearing machineries in a safe and conscientious manner can result in injury, property damage, and even death. This course is covers all aspects of crane risks for both operators and non-operators.
Powerline Safety
Contact with overhead power lines remains a major source of fatal electrical injuries in the construction industry. This course in Powerline Safety teaches employees how to recognize powerline hazards, as well as how to avoid the latter or respond in case of an emergency.
Heat & Cold Stress Prevention
Hot and cold weather, humidity, physical exertion, hypothermia and dehydration can all cause heat/cold-induced illnesses. Construction workers are especially at risk as a result of overexertion caused by heavy labor, along with direct exposure to extreme temperatures when working outdoors.
PPE
On a construction site, the personal protective equipment of workers is often the first and only line of defense against injury and/or illness. This program covers aspects of appropriately choosing and wearing one’s PPE, as well as of maintaining the latter in an appropriate condition.
Asbestos Awareness
Construction workers often encounter asbestos in older buildings. This course provides necessary information for employees to understand the risk of working with asbestos. Furthermore, it teaches how to avoid disturbing asbestos or working items which may contain this silicate mineral.
NORM Safety Awareness
Many of the chemical components in building materials and some residues from construction processes can be legally classified as NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials). This course helps workers understand the dangers of working around NORM and outlines protective measures they can take to safeguard their health.
Lone Worker Safety
Workers in the construction industry will often have periods of working alone, out of sight or hearing of their colleagues. This Lone Worker Safety course is designed to better prepare employees for the potential hazards associated with working alone and help employers implement effective safety measures for their lone workers.
First Aid Awareness
Ensuring workers on site have the skills needed to deal with any first aid emergency is a legal requirement. This awareness course does not seek to replace the practical element but to provide general information on the basic principles of assisting injured individuals and transitioning care to medical professionals as required.
Fire Safety & Extinguishers
Because buildings currently in construction are largely unprotected against fires, the potential for an outbreak, as well as for fire damage, is outstanding. This course is designed to diminish the likelihood of fire outbursts caused by human error, as well as indicate the best practices in terms of dealing with and evacuating a fire emergency.
Electrical Safety Awareness
Underground cables, overhead power lines, and electrical systems in buildings are some of the most common sources of electrical hazards in construction. This training course covers all aspects of electrical safety while on site and teaches workers how to practically recognize electrical threats and avoid them.
Elevating Work Platforms
Many construction employees find themselves on self-supported or boom-supported platforms even for regular maintenance tasks. This course helps employees prepare for and deal with lift hazards in order to minimize potential risks.
WHMIS
Hazardous materials are commonplace on construction sites and they often go unnoticed. For instance, silica dust from cutting concrete is just as harmful for the respiratory system as is asbestos. This course covers aspects of working safely with and around hazardous materials, thereby reducing health risks and injuries.
Lock Out/Tag Out
The backbone of the construction industry is powered equipment, whether in the form of tools, machines, or industrial trucks. The Lockout/Tagout course teaches employees how to effectively turn off various equipment during downtime or servicing periods and why this is necessary.
Confined Space
Manholes, tanks, and crawl spaces are not designed to be occupied for long periods of time, which is why they are not easy to exit in the event of an emergency. This course presents more information about the hazards associated with confined spaces, how the former risks should be tackled, as well as about ways in which employees can safely conduct their activity in a very limited space.
H2S Awareness
Construction workers and plumbers, in particular, may be exposed to Sulphur and Sulphur compounds. The program covers the situations where employees might encounter H2S as a result of corrosion or other processes, but also teaches them how to detect, assess, and deal with sulphur risks in a safe manner.
Fall Protection
Year after year falls remain one of the top causes of death on construction sites across Canada. Any time you are working at height you are at risk for a serious fall-related injury. The purpose of this course is to provide workers with information that will enable them to recognize major fall hazards at construction worksites with the purpose of minimizing the risk of an injury.
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How eSafetyFirst Can Help Your Business
With many years of experience, thousands of companies working with us, and an open ear to our customers’ feedback, we ensure a user-friendly environment so that any person with an internet connection can benefit from our services.
Easy-to-Use Invitation System
Invite your entire workforce within minutes. Using our system, all you have to do is to type in their First & Last Name as well as an email address and they are good to go. Do you have workers without an email address? No worries; you can still train them using our second option specifically designed for them.
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Certificate Management
Certificates of training and digital credentials are automatically awarded to your workers upon successful completion of their training. As a employer, you’ll have the ability to view and print certificates at any time.
Add your workersFrequently Asked Questions
Are you courses compliant with OHS & Worker Compensation Boards?
All our courses are compliant with OHS and the CSA Standards which the Worker Compensation Boards follow. However, there are some courses which also require the hands-on practice and evaluation, on top of the theoretical training and evaluation which is offered by the online training.
For these courses, we have included, in our training modules and in their respective resources section, an operator evaluation checklist which you can use to assist you with this hands-on practice and evaluation. This part of the training is done offline and has to be workplace specific and as such, it is not something that we are able to offer.
What happens after I purchase the course?
Once you finish with your checkout process, you will immediately be credited with the courses that you have purchased. You can then use the “Invite New Users” function or the “Group Training” option, depending on your preferred method of training, to assign the courses to your workers.
Can I use my email / same email to invite my workers to course?
No. Each email used in the invitational process has to be unique for each person taking the course.
If your workers do not have an email address, you can use the invitation function for workers without an email address, by clicking “Yes” in the checkbox near the question “DO YOU HAVE WORKERS WITHOUT EMAIL ADDRESS?”. This will open a different invitation process that does not use email addresses for.
Can everyone do the training from the same computer?
Yes. Please note that you do, however, have to log out after each session so the next worker can login using his personal details.
To log out from an account, you will have to click “My Account” from the top right corner of the website and once you are in your user control panel, click the “Log out” button.
How long do you have to complete a course?
Workers invited to take a course will have up to one year to complete their training so this should offer them plenty of time to do it.
Can you pause & resume a course?
Yes. When you pause a course, a bookmark will be left to that slide / module. You can later resume from there or chose to start from the beginning of the module.
Can you retake the testing section if you fail?
If your workers are invited in an individual training system (they do the training from their own account), they will have unlimited exam attempts.
If your workers are participating in a group training, they will have one re-attempt per module. This is to prevent the entire group from waiting for certain individuals that are not paying attention to the training session.
Do you offer offline training as well?
Not at this moment. All our courses are online.
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