Workplace Health and Safety

Learn how to create and maintain a safe and healthy working environment for employees.

These courses are designed to provide you with an understanding of how to identify, assess, and manage workplace health and safety risks in order to prevent accidents, injuries, and illnesses in the workplace. 

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Health and Wellness at Work

Course Outcomes:

  • Access Health and Wellness Program Needs.
  • Plan a Health and Wellness Program.
  • Implement a Health and Wellness Program.
  • Maintain a Health and Wellness Program.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Office Health and Safety

Course Outcomes:

    • Identify common illnesses.
    • Understand how they spread.
    • Recognize symptoms.
    • Apply treatment and prevention techniques.
    • Establish an Emergency Response Plan.

    Hours: 6

    Credits: N/A

    Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

    Cost: $60

    Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

    Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

    Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

    Course ID: 

    Name: Safety in the Workplace

    Course Outcomes:

      • Define workplace safety.
      • Describe legal responsibilities associated with a safe work environment.
      • Create a safety plan and identify hazards.
      • Recognize the role of management.
      • Develop training procedures.
      • Implement a safety plan.

      Hours: 6

      Credits: N/A

      Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

      Cost: $60

      Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

      Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

      Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

      Course ID: 

      Name: Universal Safety Practices

      Course Outcomes:

      • Describe the importance and legal responsibilities of safety.
      • Perform risk assessments.
      • Establish a safety program.
      • Monitor safety.
      • Communicate safety policies.

      Hours: 6

      Credits: N/A

      Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

      Cost: $60

      Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

      Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

      Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

      We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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