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Education Products

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DVDs

Resource Books

Break a Leg Student Placement 2011 OHS Act
Chemical Fume Hoods Fire & Explosion
Food Service Safety Working at Heights
Slips & Falls DVD Series Confined Spaces
Violence in the Workplace - The Trouble with Trouble Physical Hazards
Back Injury Prevention Lifts and Transfer Noise Hazards
The Weightlifter Machine Guarding
WHMIS Refresher Driving Hazards
Slips, Trips and Falls

CDs

Lockout Resource Book 
Contracted Services: Employer Liability for Health & Safety and the Temporary Worker

Environmental Hazards

Occupational Health and Safety Orientation Safety in Special Education Services
WHMIS for Everyone - The Essentials Violence Prevention Program
Emergency Preparedness Violence Prevention in Education
Orientation en Matière de Santé et de Sécurité au Travail Joint Health & Safety Committees
Le Simdut pour tous – Rudiments Emergency Preparedness Planning
Protection Civile Asbestos Management
Winter Driving Principals Due Diligence
Supervisors Due Diligence
Health & Safety for the Volunteer

Participant Books

Health & Safety for Small Business
Seasonal Outdoor Safety Grounds-keeping Student Placement
Health & Safety Orientation Seasonal Outdoor Safety Grounds-keeping
WHMIS Participant Resource Manual Overexertion
Workers' Asbestos Food Services

Posters & Cards

Managing Mould
Slips & Falls Poster Dealing with a Difficult Person
WHMIS and Consumer Poster Series Managing Occupational Stress
WHMIS Wallet Cards Working Alone
Heights Awareness Wallet Cards Healthy Organizations
Pottery and Ceramic Craft Hazards

 

2011 OHS Act
Get the Guide on our e-store!
Prepared by Carswell, this consolidated edition of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations is a handy reference tool for any workplace. It has been revised to reflect all amendments made up to January 15, 2011.
Price: $23.00

DVDs

Break a Leg Student Placement DVD: This video is meant to increase students’ awareness of the potential hazards found in their work placements. It explains the importance for students to understand that their placement employer must ensure the safety of the workplace; however, students must also understand their own responsibility for working in a safe manner.
Price: $25.00

Chemical Fume Hoods DVD: This movie provides basic information on the operation and use of chemical fume hoods by visually demonstrating airflow and the effects of different sash adjustments. This film is highly recommended for all staff involved in the operation or maintenance of chemical fume hoods.
Price: $25.00

Food Services Safety DVD: This movie will assist supervisors, managers and Joint Health and Safety Committees in the operation of an effective safety program for facilities that have food services. The film also covers slips and falls, cuts and injuries and musculoskeletal injuries.
Price: $50.00

Slips & Falls Awareness Package
A four-part series of awareness films on slips and falls for employees in the education sector.
Price: $50.00

Slips & Falls: This five-minute awareness film helps employees within the education sector become more aware of slip, trip and fall hazards in their workplaces and be able to reduce these hazards. This also explains what causes accidents and assists in their elimination or minimization.

Stools and Ladders: This five-minute awareness film helps employees within the education sector become more aware of stools and Ladders hazards in their workplaces and be able to reduce these hazards. This also explains what causes accidents and assists in their elimination or minimization.

Walking Surfaces: This five-minute awareness film helps employees within the education sector become more aware walking surface hazards in their workplaces and be able to reduce these hazards. This also explains what causes accidents and assists in their elimination or minimization. 

Footwear: This five-minute awareness film helps employees within the education sector become more aware of footwear hazards in their workplaces and be able to reduce these hazards. This also explains what causes accidents and assists in their elimination or minimization. 

Back Injury Prevention Lifts and Transfer DVD: The goal of this video is to assist in the prevention of sprains, strains and back injuries among educational assistants in the educational workplace. This video briefly explains how the skeletal, soft tissue and the nervous system contribute to the maintenance of a healthy back and demonstrates basic forces and limitations that can lead to injury of the back.
Price: $50.00

WHMIS/SIMDUT DVD:  WHMIS is a Canada-wide system designed to give employers and workers information about hazardous materials used in the workplace.  This DVD will meet the requirements of WHMIS Review and may be used to enhance WHMIS in-house training. 
Price: $125.00

The Weightlifter DVD: This short awareness video is to be used in conjunction with back care presentations.  With the use of a model of the spine it explains where and when damage occurs and how to avoid injury by using proper lifting techniques.  
Price: 15.00

“The Trouble with Trouble” DVD: This 15-minute movie helps employees define and understand work-related violence and aggression through a presentation of various scenarios, showing the effect this behaviour has on the work environment.
Price: $25.00

CDs

Contracted Services: Employer Liability for Health and Safety and the Temporary Worker CD-ROM: This CD-ROM provides essential information for employers and senior management regarding the contracting out of services and the attached legal obligations and duties. It also highlights important legislation surrounding the contracting for goods and services.
Price: $125.00

Occupational Health and Safety Orientation CD-ROM: This CD-ROM highlights important features in a health and safety program, captures interest, reinforces key concepts, and serves as a foundation for continuing training.
Price: $125.00

WHMIS for Everyone – The Essentials CD-ROM: This CD-ROM provides essential information on WHMIS for training programs for workers in low-risk occupations. It also serves as a foundation for continued training for higher-risk occupations.
Price: $125.00

Introductory Training for Educational Assistants CD-ROM: This CD-ROM highlights important features of legislation that deals with special education and work safety. It also provides information on roles and responsibilities, hazard assessment, first aid, and emergency procedures, among other points.
Price: $125.00

Emergency Preparedness CD-ROM: This CD-ROM provides officials in public and private institutions with information needed to prepare emergency plans and design agreements between the institution and the appropriate government agency responding to emergencies. Definitions, policies and procedures, and legislation are also included as important topics.
Price: $125.00

Winter Driving Hazards CD-ROM:  This CD ROM was developed to fill the need for driver’s education and training in winter conditions.  This program provides an introduction to safe winter driving for employers, supervisors, workers and volunteers who may be required to drive in winter conditions in the course of their assignments.  The knowledge gained from this program will also assist all drivers when confronted by snow and freezing conditions.  It will assist their ability to identify the safest tires for all road conditions and introduce them to the complexities of skid control and how to stop safely in slippery conditions. 
Price: $125.00

Resource Books

Fire and Explosion Resource Book: This resource book provides information on hazard descriptions, hazard control, identification and assessment. It also covers legislation, standards and guidelines, and provides a guide to developing a health and safety action plan. 
Price: $10.00

Working at Heights Resource Book: This resource book provides information on hazard descriptions, legislation, standards and guidelines, hazard identification and assessment, hazard control, and inspections. 
Price: $10.00

Confined Spaces Resource Book: This resource book covers hazard descriptions, legislation, standards and guidelines, hazard identification and assessment, and information on hazard control.
Price: $10.00

Physical Hazards Resource Book: Serious injuries can be caused by failure to control the physical hazards present in the workplace. This resource book covers topics such as radiation, temperature extremes, legislation, standards and guidelines, and legislation specific to vibration.
Price: $10.00

Noise Hazards Resource Book: Hazardous noise is any sound for which any combination of frequency, intensity or duration is capable of causing temporary or permanent hearing loss. This resource book covers hazard descriptions, legislation, standards and guidelines, hazard identification and assessment, and hazard control.
Price: $10.00

Machine Guarding Resource Book: Working with machines may cause fatalities, critical injuries and amputations. This resource book includes information – relevant to guarding – on hazard descriptions, legislation, standards and guidelines, hazard identification and assessment, and hazard control. 
Price: $10.00

Driving Hazards Resource Book: This resource book includes information on driving hazards, and specifically on hazard descriptions, hazard identification and assessment, legislation, standards and guidelines, and hazard control. 
Price: $10.00

Slips, Trips and Falls Resource Book: The ability to see a hazard, recognize it for what it is, and react before reaching the point of no return is the best way to avoid slipping, tripping, or falling. This book covers regulations and other relevant standards, as well as hazard descriptions, identification, and assessment. 
Price: $10.00

Lockout Resource Book: Individuals in your organization may be exposed to energy hazards that can lead to serious injury or death. Among other topics, this resource book provides examples of apparent energy and stored energy, as well as danger tags and lock out procedures. 
Price: $10.00

Environmental Hazards Resource Book: Environmental hazard usually poses the greatest concern for staff. This book helps readers recognize, assess, and control such hazards. The appendices of the book contain information on the development process for an action plan and a flow chart on controlling environmental hazards.
Price: $10.00

Safety in Special Education Services Resource Book: This resource book helps readers maintain employee safety in special education services. The book includes information such as how to lift and transfer students with special needs and ergonomic risks of special education.
Price: $10.00

Violence Prevention Program Resource Book: Through various examples, this resource book teaches the reader that workplace violence can be prevented and employees must know how to respond if an incident occurs.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Violence Prevention in Education Resource Book: Recent events have brought attention to the increasing level of violence in our schools and communities. This resource book discusses the importance of finding ways to recognize and prevent violence and ensuring that employees know how to respond in case of an incident. 
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Joint Health and Safety Committees Resource Book: This resource book discusses the role of Joint Health and Safety Committees in the education sector and suggests ways for committees to function effectively, efficiently, and in compliance with the law.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Emergency Preparedness Planning Resource Book: This book teaches that to decrease the probability of an unwanted event and the severity of a hazard, strict controls and effective procedures and training are required. This manual teaches workplaces to develop and implement a program to follow when situations occur.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Asbestos Management Resource Book: The asbestos budget has suffered due to competing demands for capital and maintenance funding. This resource book is an effective guide for organizations currently in the process of establishing or revising an asbestos management program, as it explains the use of asbestos and its effect on health.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Principals – Due Diligence Book: Should there be a serious workplace injury or illness, proof of due diligence is the only way of defending oneself or an organization. Among other topics, these books teach that being duly diligent always works to your benefit and that health and safety should always be included in every aspect of your job.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Supervisors – Due Diligence Resource Book: This resource manual is not intended to present legal advice. The book should be considered a layperson's guide to understanding the term "due diligence" as it may apply to various Ontario legislations.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Health & Safety and the Volunteer Resource Book: The goal of this resource book is to guide individuals in the position of recruiting and supervising volunteers in ensuring that the possibility of injury is eliminated and the risk of liability to the organization is minimized. 
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Health & Safety for Small Business Resource Book: This book outlines a simple, ten-step health and safety program that is easy to set up in a smaller organization. A health and safety program, while necessary, need not be difficult or expensive to establish and maintain.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Student Placement Resource Book: While a placement can be rewarding, it can also be a minefield of hidden dangers that can injure students. This booklet provides students and co-op teachers with a review of the hazards that exist in placement work sites.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Seasonal Outdoor Safety Grounds-keeping Resource Book: This resource book provides an introduction to safety practices for outside workers whose work includes maintaining the grounds. It also explains that the first goal of both the workers and supervisors should be to eliminate as many hidden workplace hazards as possible.
Price: $25.00

Overexertion Resource Book: Overexertion injuries are reported in many workplaces, including the education sector, and cause lost work time. This book examines the risk factors for the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and provides the reader with information and guidelines to be implemented in the workplace to help reduce or prevent overexertion injuries.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Food Services Resource Book: This resource book’s goal is to help supervisors, managers and Joint Health and Safety Committees manage an effective safety program for educational facilities that provide food services. The book also covers legislation that applies to the workforce.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Managing Mould Resource Book: This book informs participants of the workplace conditions and events that can cause mould to become a problem. Mould is a significant area of concern for workers and employers in Ontario’s education sector and others. This book also explains relevant legislation, defines mould, describes its potential health effects, and discusses an action plan.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Dealing With a Difficult Person Resource Book: Staff must know how to deal effectively with disruptive or angry clients, visitors, or even fellow co-workers. This book provides information, suggestions, and tips for employees who deal with difficult individuals.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Managing Occupational Stress:  Today’s rapidly changing workplaces are proving to be high stress incubators, disability rates have tripled, and work absences have risen in Canada by 12% from 2001 to 2002.  Prescriptions for anti-depressants and minor tranquilizers now rival, in dollar amounts, those for high blood pressure and related cardiovascular problems.  This book reviews the causes of stress at work and outlines steps that can be taken to prevent job stress. 
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Working Alone:  Employers, unions and governments across the country have begun to realize that the unique circumstances of working alone may place workers at risk, and consider certain working alone situations as a genuine occupational hazard.  A program should be implemented to ensure the health & safety of those working alone. 
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

Pottery and Ceramic Craft Hazards Resource Book 
The art of ceramics involves lifting, carrying, bending, extreme heat, the use of potentially dangerous materials, and potentially slippery floors.  This manual is to be used as a teaching tool and reference guide to help ensure that the craft and beauty of ceramics is not achieved at the expense of the health of the artist. 
Price: $10.00

Healthy Organizations Resource Book 
Healthy Organization is a resource to help you understand and apply the principles of building a healthy workplace.  Healthy organizations strive for a culture that promotes a shored responsibility for employee health and safety through education, awareness, resources and accountability.
Price: $10.00

Participant Books

Seasonal Outdoor Safety Grounds-keeping Participant Manuals: These manuals, used in conjunction with the summer and winter grounds-keeping training videos, provide key health and safety information required for employees to perform their grounds-keeping jobs safely.
Price: $39.95

Health and Safety Orientation Participant Manuals: This booklet highlights the important components of a health and safety program for the new employee, providing, among other information, a basic understanding of occupational health and safety legislation along with the rights, responsibilities and duties of each of the workplace parties. The importance of accident and hazard reporting and instructions for incidents of injury are also discussed.
Available in French and English
Price: $10.00

WHMIS Participant Resource Manual
This manual includes detailed text and graphics to aid the instructor and student in discussing Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), supplier labels, workplace labels, and hazardous material classifications.  There is ample space for note-taking to ensure that the manual will be a valuable after-training reference.
Price: $5.00

Worker’ Asbestos Participant Book
The purpose of this book is to introduce workers to some of the regulations related to asbestos, as well as to assist workers in the identification of asbestos, asbestos containing materials and locations where asbestos can often still be found. 
Price: $10.00

Posters

Slips and Falls Poster Series: These posters, which identify both hazards and preventative measures, are available in French and English and raise awareness of the hazards, present in day-to-day activities, that may cause injuries.

WHMIS and Consumer Poster Series: These 8.5” X 11” posters of WHMIS and Consumer symbols help workplaces meet legislative requirements and raise awareness of possible workplace hazards.
Price: $10.00
Available in French, Cree, Ojibway, Traditional Mandarin, Simplified Mandarin and English.

WHMIS Wallet Cards:  This handy reference card identifies the WHMIS symbols and lists Things a Worker Should Know and The Right to Refuse Unsafe Work.  It also provides space to record emergency numbers and your instructor and the date of your WHMIS training. Available in English & French.  
Price: $10.00 (package of 25)
Heights Awareness Wallet Cards:  This handy reference card includes a review of critical heights and The Right to Refuse Unsafe Work.  It also provides space to record your instructor of your fall protection training.
Available in English & French.  
Price: $10.00 (package of 25)