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Date: Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm MST
Location: via Zoom
Join us on June 24 to learn more about what Line of Fire Safety is! Click here to register for this webinar.
Competent Psychological (PHS) Health and Safety Leader
Date: Wednesday Jun 24, 2020 - Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Time: 9 am - 3 pm
Location: Virtual workshop
On June 24 and 25 from 9 am – 3 pm MST, AMHSA and Howatt HR are hosting our Psychological Health and Safety (PHS) Leader Course and Workshop. The goal of this course is to offer training for those who want to become a competent psychological health and safety leader (PHS).
This event will help health and safety leaders to strategically integrate psychological competency into their organization’s health and safety management systems.
What do Participants Get?
- On-line work articles
- 12 hours of interactive course work (6 instructional hours/day)
- Access to Howatt HR tools:
- Strategic Compass
- Organizational Typology
- A Foundation Workbook
- 12 hours of CPHR Alberta Continuing Professional Development accreditation
Interactive break-out sessions where you will participate with other like-minded professionals
Please visit our website where you can learn more information and register for this event!
COVID-19 Return to Work Virtual Workshop
Date: Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Time: 9 am MST
Location: via Zoom
Join AMHSA for a full-day virtual workshop on Tuesday, June 23 - 9:00am-3:30pm on how to safely bring back workers by reducing mental, ergonomic and workplace harms, increasing resilience leading to reduced claims and more productive employees.
Our three industry experts – Dr. Bill Howatt, Dr. Linda Miller, and Dr. Hallowell – will guide us in addressing psychological health and wellness, ergonomics, and risk management.
To register for this workshop or to see the agenda and more information, please visit our website.
Seats are limited so sign up today! To register directly via Zoom, use this link.
AMHSA thanks its strategic partners and sponsors: Alberta Construction Safety Association. Howatt HR, EWI Works, and Safety Function.
#returntowork #relaunch #albertastrong #covid
Return to Work - Workplace Reboot 2.0
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Date: Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm MST
Location: via Zoom
In this 90-minute webinar, Dr. Bill Howatt will provide employers with some factors and insights to consider to proactively protect and support employees’ mental health. Not all employees will embrace returning to work with the same level of commitment, readiness, and capabilities. The goal of this webinar is for you to walk away with some ideas and a framework to create your mental health impact plan.
Topics that will be covered:
• Discuss how employees may cope with change differently
• How to evaluate where employees are with respect to their readiness to return to work.
• Explore various factors that can negatively impact employee psychological safety and mental health if not considered.
• To examine what employers can do to proactively impact employee mental health
• To discuss how employers may want to prepare leaders.
To register for this Zoom webinar, click here.
Line of Fire Safety Webinar
Date: Monday Jun 15, 2020
Time: 9:00 am MST
Location: via Zoom
Join us on June 15 to learn more about what Line of Fire Safety is! Click here to register for this webinar.
Alberta Cities Safety Council Meeting
Date: Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Time: 10 am - 3 pm
Location: via Zoom
Due to the pandemic and social distancing requirements, our Cities meeting is now a Zoom meeting!
If you plan to attend but haven’t registered yet for the meeting via Zoom, you can do so by clicking here.
Upcoming News & Events
◙ National Day of Mourning
Date: April 28, 2024
Location: Canada
The National Day of Mourning is not only a day to remember and honour those lives lost or injured due to a workplace tragedy, but also a day to collectively renew our commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace and prevent further injuries, illnesses and deaths.
For more information, visit https://www.ccohs.ca/events/mourning/
◙ Aquatic Health and Safety Awareness: Types of Fall Protection, Including Guardrails
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: Online
The Aquatics Health and Safety Awareness campaign is designed to raise awareness of occupational health and safety concerns for those working in and around aquatic facilities, and to provide free and accessible resources to workers (including vulnerable/new/young workers), supervisors, pool facility operators, and organizations. The webinars are no cost, open to all attendees, and will be recorded and made available following the event.
This 45-minute webinar is presented by a fall protection engineering expert that will review when a fall protection plan and fall protection training are required. The subject matter expert will also discuss the hierarchy of controls specific for fall protection, and the types of systems, such as guardrails, travel restraint, fall arrest, and control zones. This general understanding is fundamental before creating a fall protection plan and implementing its systems. Following the webinar, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of our subject matter expert.
- Review when fall protection is required.
- Outline the hierarchy of controls specific for slips, trips, and falls.
- Identify the types of systems involved in the fall protection plan, such as: guardrails, travel restraint, fall arrest, and control zones.
- Review Alberta OHS legislation - specifically, water danger [AB OHS Code 157], Fall Protection Plan [AB OHS Code140(1)], Instruction of workers [AB OHS Code141(1) and 141(3)], and fall protection hierarchy [AB OHS Code139(3) to 13(8)].
Visit our Aquatic Health and Safety Awareness Website for additional resources, including safety talks and information posters.
Presented by AMHSA & High Engineering
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 (MST)
When registering, you’ll have the option to select individual webinars or register for all three. To register multiple attendees at once, we have a bulk registration spreadsheet that can be filled out and returned to [email protected].
◙ Alberta Health & Safety Conference
Date: May 01, 2024 - May 02, 2024
Location: Feltham Centre, NAIT, Edmonton, AB
The Health & Safety Conference Society of Alberta (HSCSA) is excited to announce the dates of their upcoming 2024 conference: Wednesday, May 1 & Thursday, May 2, 2024 at the Feltham Centre (CAT) at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta.
Watch https://hsconference.ca/ for details.
◙ NAOSH Week
Date: May 06, 2024 - May 11, 2024
Location: Canada
Find tools to help you plan and promote your Safety and Health Week events. Combine with organization-wide involvement, support and enthusiasm for your keys to success.
Visit https://www.safetyandhealthweek.ca/english/ for more
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