PRE-REQUISITES: PROOF OF Completion of a CPO-APPROVED WORKING AT HEIGHTS COURSE

COURSE SUMMARY

The purpose of this Working at Heights training program is to:

• Strengthen workplace safety culture by elevating the profile and importance of preventing falls from heights
• Provide workers who may be exposed to the hazard of falling with adequate knowledge about fall hazards and general safety practices to work safely at heights
• Provide workers who use personal fall protection equipment with sufficient knowledge about its purpose and use
• Reduce the number of fall-from-heights incidents, injuries, and fatalities

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize working at heights hazards
• Explain the hierarchy of controls
• Discuss safe work plans
• Identify and assess when ladders are appropriate
• Explain proper inspection, care, and use of ladders
• Describe types of warning methods and physical barriers
• Identify when warning methods and physical barriers are required
• Discuss limitations, application, and storage of different fall protection systems
• Calculate fall distances
• Demonstrate how to inspect the equipment, don and doff of a harness, and maintain 100% tie-off
• Discuss the differences between permanent, temporary, and structural anchors
• Select the appropriate fall protection equipment when working on a platform
• Explain the purpose, roles, and responsibilities of workplace parties with respect to a rescue plan

Following the theory part of the program, there will be a practical evaluation completed. This consists of a facilitator observing the trainee and testing their abilities to put the theory into practice and maintain 100% tie-off as well as use equipment as it is designed.

Target Audience

Supervisors, lead hands, workers, and health and safety committee members/representatives who work on construction sites with fall hazards who have taken the 8-hour CPO Approved course in the past

Program details

This is a 4-hour program approved by the CPO of the Ministry of Labour

Pre-requisites:

• Participants must be able to prove that they have taken the CPO-approved program through a Proof of Training card or other means at the start of class
• Government-approved ID at time of training to verify identity
• Replacement cards can be requested by calling the Ministry of Labour at 1-877-202-0008