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SPPH 568 Occupational Safety
Course Description
This course introduces the student to safety management, systems analysis, accident investigation, collection of
accident data, fault trees, total loss control.
Detailed Course Description
This course will provide the occupational and environmental hygiene student with the fundamental skills necessary
to actively participate as a member of a full service occupational health and safety team within an organization.
Emphasis is placed in four areas:
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occupational safety regulation and practice
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current safety management and risk assessment practices
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workers’ compensation insurance policy and practice
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workplace injury/disease disability management
Evaluation
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Final Exam
TOTAL
15%
20%
15%
20%
30%
100%
Comments:
Course Learning Outcomes/Competencies
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
1. Describe the elements of a successful working relationship between the members of an integrated
occupational health and safety team and between the team and professionals that liaise with the team.
2. Name the occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation agencies having jurisdiction
federally and provincially in Canada and describe their role in the workplace.
3. Discuss the format and general content of federal and provincial occupational health and safety
regulations and, given on-line and printed resources, demonstrate the ability to access and interpret these
regulations.
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4. List and describe the required elements of an effective occupational health and safety program.
5. Demonstrate the ability to effectively participate in the Safety Program Review process.
6. List and describe the regulatory requirements for Occupational Health and Safety Committees under
current Canadian OHS laws.
7. List and describe the regulatory requirements for accident investigations under current Canadian OHS
laws.
8. Demonstrate the ability to effectively participate in an Occupational Health and Safety Committee
meeting and in an accident investigation.
9. Describe the metrics commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of occupational health and safety
programs.
10. Demonstrate the ability to access information from Canadian and American-source accident report
databases and apply this information in a workplace risk assessment.
11. Briefly explain modern safety management systems and loss control models, as discussed, and discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of each.
12. Demonstrate the ability to access and understand safety regulations and best practices that govern the
following areas of safety practice:
- de-energization and lockout
- fall protection
- tool and machinery guarding
- mobile equipment
- ladders and scaffolds
- cranes and hoists
- welding and thermal cutting
- safety hazard-related personal protective equipment
13. Interpret confined space entry regulations, complete a confined space risk assessment and develop a
confined space entry plan
14. Given the confined space entry management skills developed, effectively participate in OHS programs
requiring similar high level skills (eg. emergency preparedness risk assessment and planning)
15. Recognize and explain the components of modern fire prevention and fire suppression equipment
16. Recognize the systems used by federal and provincial agencies to determine the costs of workplace
accidents and the methods used by these agencies to charge to employers the cost of workers’
compensation claims resulting from such accidents
17. Describe the premium rate setting and premium reduction incentive systems used by workers’
compensation boards
18. Describe the workers’ compensation claim adjudication process and the benefits available to workers
whose workers’ compensation claims are accepted.
19. Describe the workers’ compensation appeals process and demonstrate the ability to assist an employer
who wishes to participate in the process
20. Outline the elements of an effective disability management and return-to-work program and demonstrate
the ability to participate as an effective member of the team managing the return-to-work process
Instructor(s)
Warren Fox
MSc CRSP
Occupational Health and Safety Program
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Office Location: SW3-3087
Office Hrs.
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Office Phone: 604-456-8123
E-mail Address: wfox@bcit.ca
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Learning Resources
Required:
Online access to all Canadian OHS-related legislation
Students will be provided with a list of recommended resource materials
Information for Students
This course includes 2 mandatory off-campus field trips.
Assignment Details
Detailed assignment information will be provided.
Assignment 1: Review and interpretation of regulations related to confined space entry. Review, comparison and
critique of confined space regulatory approaches across Canada and the USA
Assignment 2: Review, analysis and critique of the occupational health and safety environment in a major sector of
the British Columbia economy
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Schedule
Date
Outcome/Material Covered
Sept 9
Injury prevention in the workplace
Prescriptive and performance-based
regulations.
Sept 16
OHS Program Elements
OHS Committees: Law and Best Practices
Sept 23
Safety Inspections: Law and Best
Practices.
Accident Investigation
Sept 30
Canadian OHS Regulations: BC OHSR
and CLC II
QUIZ 1
Oct 7
Application of Safety Programs:
Workplace Safety Hazards and Controls
(BCIT Burnaby Campus Field Trip)**
Oct 14
Measures of OHS program performance.
Risk Assessment Tools.
OHS Management Systems.
Oct 21
Application of Safety Programs:
Workplace Safety Hazards and
Controls**
Oct 28
Application of Safety Programs:
Workplace Safety Hazards and Controls
(BCIT Burnaby Campus Field Trip)**
Nov 4
Workers Compensation System in Canada
QUIZ 2
Nov 11
Workers Compensation claims process.
WCB benefits.
Reference/
Reading
Assignment
Notes
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 1 Due
(no lecture; self study package will be provided)
Nov 18
Workplace Injury Disability
Management: Duty to Accommodate
Nov 25
FINAL EXAMINATION
Assignment 2 Due
** These sessions will cover all or portions of Parts 8, 10-20, 23, 26 and 29 of the BC OHSR
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