TruckingIntroduction to Trucking Legislation
The purpose of the material in this Introduction to Trucking Legislation course is to provide employers, supervisors, workers and committee members with an introduction to law and help participants better understand legislation, standards and policies.
The course will discuss findings, interpretation, and applying legislation, standards, and policies within the workplace.
All topics will be related to Occupational Health & Safety and Commercial Transportation.
The course details
The learning objectives for this workshop are to have an understanding of the types of occurrences, what to do at the scene of an incident, how incidents need to be reported as well as the duties and responsibilities and the internal responsibility system and finally how an investigation is conducted.
The lessons are laid out in the following order:
- Lesson 1: Legal System
- Lesson 2: Locating and Identifying Changes to Legislation
- Lesson 3: Reading Legislation
- Lesson 4: Standards, Policies, and Procedures
- Lesson 5: Due Diligence
- Lesson 6: Incidents
- Lesson 7: Workers Compensation Board (WCB)
- Lesson 8: Enforcement
There are questions that you need to answer correctly placed periodically throughout this workshop to verify understanding. A final test will need to be passed to complete this workshop.
A pass mark of 70% is required to obtain a certificate of completion for this course.
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