Upcoming Courses

Due Diligence for Managers, Supervisors, Officers & Directors – November 27, 2002 (Burnaby)
Due Diligence for Managers, Supervisors, Officers & Directors – December 4, 2002 (Calgary)
Contractor and Project Safety Management – January 20 & 21, 2003 (Calgary)
Machine and Process Safeguarding – November 26, 2002 (Burnaby)
Machine and Process Safeguarding – December 3, 2002 (Calgary)
CLC Part II: OHS for Managers and Supervisors – February 13, 2003 (Burnaby)
CLC Part II: Workplace & Policy Health and Safety Committees – February 25 & 26, 2003 (Calgary)
CLC Part II: Workplace & Policy Health and Safety Committees – December 11 & 12, 2002 (Burnaby)

One-day courses are only $175 plus GST and two-day courses are $295 plus GST (applies to registrations received up to 10 calendar days prior to course.) Ask us about volume discounts and in-house courses provided at your location. Registration fee includes course material, refreshments, and a non-refundable $25 administration fee.

The British Columbia Worker’s Compensation Act requires employers with workplaces with more than 9 regularly-employed workers to establish a Worker Health and Safety Representative and workplaces with more than twenty (20) regularly-employed workers to establish a Joint Health and Safety Committee.

Section 135 of the Act entitles all Joint Health and Safety Committee members and Representatives to at least eight hours annual paid educational leave to attend health and safety training courses approved by WCB.

REA is a proud member of the WorkSafe™ Education Network and is registered with the Private Post-Secondary Education Commission (PPSEC) of British Columbia.

The following WorkSafe™ courses are designed by WCB and meet the requirements under the Act and are offered by REA:

• Joint Health and Safety Committee Training
• Hazard Recognition and Control
• Occupational Health and Safety in Small Business
• Preventing and Investigating Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI)
• Preventing Workplace Violence
• Supervisor Safety Management

REA has a discount policy for all of our training courses. If you register three participants from one company all at once for the same course, you get to send an additional participant to that course absolutely free. We also offer volume discounts and reduced registration rates for training sessions held at your facility. Please contact us at 1-888-rea-4-ehs for more information about our courses or other health and safety needs. REA – Vancouver 405-2288 West 12th Avenue Vancouver, BC  V6K 4R2 (604) 422-0110 Fax: (604) 422-0112 Attn: Chun-Yip Hon chon@rea4ehs.com

Upcoming WorkSafe™ Courses Joint Health and Safety Committee Training – January 14, 2003 (Burnaby) Hazard Recognition and Control – February 6, 2003 (Burnaby) Preventing and Investigating Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) – February 7, 2003 (Burnaby) Supervisor Safety Management – February 5, 2003 (Burnaby) Preventing Workplace Violence – December 10, 2002 (Burnaby) Occupational Health and Safety in Small Businesses – December 18, 2002 (Burnaby) 8-hour session (1 day) is only $175 plus GST (applies to registrations received up to 10 calendar days prior to course. After that, the registration fee is $225 plus GST). Ask us about volume discounts and in-house courses provided at your location. Registration fee includes course material, refreshments, and a non-refundable $25 administration fee.

• OHSAS 18001 - 1-day Awareness Course
• OHSAS 18001 - 3-day Implementation Course

The 1-day Awareness Course is designed for participants who would like to find out if OHSAS is a management system that would benefit their workplace. The course provides an overview of OHSAS 18001 requirements - OHS management system elements, general requirements, OH policy, planning, implementation and operation, checking and corrective action, and management review - and by the end of the course understand the intent, content, and applicability of this management system.

The 3-day Implementation Course will provide those participants who have decided to implement OHSAS 18001 the tools and knowledge to effectively assess / develop / consolidate their existing management system to conform with OHSAS 18001. In addition to covering the essentials of the specification, participants will understand practical ways of integrating OHSAS 18001 with Canadian Occupational Health and Safety statutory and regulatory requirements, and the relationship between OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 is also covered.