Basic Safety Recertification (BSR)

Course Outline

1. Refresh their understanding of…
   a) worker rights under the Occupational Health and Safety Act
   b) workplace parties’ duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act
2. Recognize the potential health effects of exposure to all six categories of hazards:
   a) Characteristics of the hazard: hazard type, physical/chemical properties
   b) Possible health and safety effects: routes of entry, potential illness, or
   injury from exposure
   c) Possible products and processes where workers may encounter the hazard
   d) Applicable regulations, standards, or guidelines (MLITSD and Safety
   Partnership)
3. Explain how to mitigate identified hazards using given tools:
   a) Proper selection and limitations of tools and PPE
   b) Value of specific control methods/tools in mitigating hazards (where,
   when, and how it’s used)
   c) The relevance of unsafe acts and conditions to the SIFp model
   d) Recognize Human Organizational Performance (HOP) as an approach to
   safety
   e) Purpose and value of reporting hazardous conditions and near misses
   f) Consequences of not reporting hazardous conditions and near misses
4. Describe what safety culture looks like to them:
   a) How cultural shifts happen
   b) Impact of supportive safety culture on individuals and communities
5. Describe specific changes that need to happen with their own behavior/practices
   and at their workplace to support, advance, and enhance the safety culture in
   their workplace:
   a) Recognition of worker’s own risk tolerance both at work and at home
   b) Recognize how incidents can happen and identify tools available to prevent
   them
   c) Relationship between risk tolerance and safety culture
   d) Relationship between Psychosocial Hazards as a contributing factor that
   could lead to incidents or can be a consequence of incidents.
   e) Recognize ways to support individuals in crisis and the ‘local’ resources
   available.
   f) Recognition of the human responses to safety.