Health & Safety Training

IUPAT District Council 17 offers:

Safety Training

Saftey training available to members working for signatory contractors. E-mail training@dc17.ca to enroll.

  • ESC Fall Protection

  • Standard Fall Protection

  • ESC Confined Space Entry Monitor

  • H2S Alive

  • ESC Elevated Work Platform

  • Standard Boom Lift

  • Standard Scissor Lift

  • CSTS or SCOT

  • Lead Awareness Training

  • WHMIS2015 / GHS

  • Lead Worker Awareness Training

  • OSSA Fall Protection Gear
  • District Council 17 Confined Space Training
  • IUPAT District Council 17 Health & Safety Training

Health & Safety Training, In-House – Select Courses

Oil Sands Safety Association = OSSA (correctly pronounced Oh-SA, not Oh-SHA), is a “non-profit organization made up of representatives from Syncrude Canada, Suncor Energy, Shell Albian Sands and Canadian Natural Resources, as well as volunteer members from the labor providers, union, area contractors and learning providers” [About OSSA].

If you are working on an Oil Sands member site, you will need the Oil Sands Safety Association version of Fall Protection (if working at heights), Elevated Work Platform (if working on man-lifts), and Confined Space Entry Monitor (if working in &/or monitoring confined spaces). More generally, OSSA courses have a good reputation, and are universally observed elsewhere in Alberta and usually in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Territories as well.

Our commercial construction markets do not need the OSSA training versions as they do not work on Oil Sands sites. Therefore, DC 17 offers non-OSSA versions of Fall Pro, etc. Here, we use the term ‘Standard’ to discern these from their OSSA version (e.g., ‘Standard’ Fall Pro vs. ‘OSSA’ Fall Pro)

WHMIS2015 is the new version of the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems; WHMIS2015 incorporates the United Nation’s Globally Harmonized System, which better globally standardizes hazardous material terms and documents (e.g., the old Material Safety Data Sheet becomes the more standardized Safety Data Sheet). We are well into the transition period from [the original] WHMIS1988 to WHMIS2015. June 1, 2018 is the current date set to shift completely to WHMIS2015. However, these things have a way of dragging out. The bottom line for now: you must be trained in both WHMIS1988 & WHMIS2015. Stay tuned!

Lead Worker Awareness offers the basics of lead paint abatement including: uses of Lead in Industry and Construction, effects of lead on the human body, impact to the environment, contamination risks, lead regulations, (risk to children, take home routes, proper decontamination techniques, wash trailers, etc.), and Lead regulations in the Prairies.

Upcoming Training Events

Health & Safety Online Training & Out-Sourced Training

IUPAT District Council 17 offers:

Online Training

  • Alberta CSTS

  • Saskatchewan SCOT

  • Saskatchewan R&R

  • WHMIS2015 / GHS

  • TDG

  • United Academy Boom Lift (theory online, practical required afterwards)

  • United Academy Scissor Lift (theory online, practical required afterwards)

  • United Academy Forklift (theory online, practical required afterwards)

  • United Academy Telehandler (theory online, practical required afterwards)

  • United Academy Fall Pro (theory online, practical required afterwards)

Out-Sourced Training

  • First Aid, Emergency (1 Day)

  • First Aid, Standard (2 Day)

  • H2S Alive

  • BSO

District 17 Training, EWP

Health & Safety Training, Online – Select Courses

Construction Safety Training System (CSTS-09) & Safety Construction Orientation Training (SCOT) are similar on-line programs required by various sites in Alberta and Saskatchewan, respectively. One does not replace the other; if you work in both provinces on industrial sites, you will likely need both.
If you require CSTS or SCOT, contact DC17 Training, for LINK, USERID and PASSWORD for either CSTS or SCOT.

Construction Safety Training System (CSTS-09) & Safety Construction Orientation Training (SCOT) are similar on-line programs required by various sites in Alberta and Saskatchewan, respectively. One does not replace the other; if you work in both provinces on industrial sites, you will likely need both.
If you require CSTS or SCOT, contact DC17 Training, for LINK, USERID and PASSWORD for either CSTS or SCOT.

Rights & Responsibilities [R&R] is another online program required by some (not all) sites in Saskatchewan.

If you require R&R, contact DC17 Training, for LINK, USERID and PASSWORD for either CSTS or SCOT.

Health & Safety Training, Outsourced – Select Courses

BSO (Basic Safety Orientation) is a relatively new classroom training program that has replaced previous on-line CSTS and OSSA Regional training. Not all sites require BSO, but it is trending.