Online Courses
Welcome to Road Safety at Work’s portal of free online road safety courses. Preventing workplace crashes is smart business. Completing these courses will help you do that. They offer self-paced, interactive learning that will develop your road safety knowledge and skills.
Each course will take about 45 to 120 minutes to complete. Once you’re registered, you can start, stop and return whenever you like. Plus, after you successfully complete each course, you’ll be able to print your Record of Completion – and demonstrate to others your commitment to improving safety for employees who drive for work.
Complete the Winter Driving Safety online course and exit survey by December 15, 2021 to be entered into a draw for a set of winter tires courtesy of Kal Tire (estimated value up to $1,000)
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Winter Driving Safety for Employers and Supervisors
This course provides you with the tools you need to plan, implement and monitor a winter driving safety program in your organization. Throughout the course, you will be presented with challenges to complete using the winter driving safety Employer Tool Kit.
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Supervising Employees Who Drive For Work
Supervising employees who drive for work presents unique challenges. This course explains hands-on methods, demonstrates practical tools and identifies resources that will help you build and apply your supervisory skills to reduce crash risks for employees.
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Assessing and Improving Employee Driving Skills
It’s important for employers to know their employees can safely perform the driving they do for work. This course explains practical tools you can use to evaluate employee driving skills, and help them develop the competencies they need.
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Investigating Motor Vehicle Incidents
As devastating as motor vehicle incidents are, they are also opportunities to learn. This course demonstrates hands-on methods learners can apply to conduct constructive investigations that yield useful results, and to implement effective corrective actions.
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Building An Effective Journey Management Process
An effective journey management process is one of the best ways to minimize exposure to driving-related hazards. This course explains key elements, demonstrates practical methods and points learners to ready-to-use resources.
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Understanding Employer Road Safety Obligations
This course provides practical understanding of road safety legislation and regulations and which ones apply to your workplace. It also shows you what you can do to comply with requirements and where to access resources to help you take action.
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Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
Taking effective action to prevent crashes requires understanding the hazards your employees face when driving. This course explains hazard ID and risk assessment, helps learners build their road hazard inventory and illustrates two methods for evaluating risks.
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Controlling Exposure to Driving-Related Hazards
When it comes to the driving-related hazards your employees face, some controls work better than others. This course uses a road safety perspective to explain the Hierarchy of Controls and walks learners through a handy approach to identify and apply measures to control exposure to those hazards.
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Building Effective Policies and Procedures
Because they guide the everyday decisions and actions of your employees, effective policies and safe work procedures are essential road safety tools. This interactive course explains the steps for building policies and procedures that fit your workplace.
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Who should take these courses?
If you are an employer or supervisor of people who drive as part of their job, or if you have a role in making or implementing road safety decisions in your organization, these courses are designed with you in mind. As an employer, supervisor or manager, you have important responsibilities for the health and safety of employees when they are behind the wheel. These courses provide relevant information and guide you through the free toolkits and resources available on the Road Safety at Work and Shift into Winter websites. They will help you plan, build, implement and monitor policies, practices and procedures that work for your organization.
How long are the courses?
The courses range from one to three hours including learning activities. Each can be taken at your own pace. You can start anytime throughout the year and login for short or longer periods to complete the activities.
Is there a course deadline?
There is no course deadline and you can log in to access each course and its related tools and resources at any time.
What happens once I finish the course?
After you successfully complete each course, you will be able to download a course completion certificate to share with your manager and/or colleagues.
