Workplace Safety & Prevention Services©

This webinar will focus on the Three Step Process for opening the province - Roadmap to Reopen and will share information, public education and prevention measures that businesses will need to know under Step Two of the Roadmap. This includes identifying and understanding the COVID-19 risks in your workplace, as well as identifying and understanding the Controls that could be used in the workplace.

The province's recent announcement that it would introduce a COVID-19 vaccination passport system for customers entering certain businesses creates an issue of another sort for workplaces: what about their employees?

Employees who work indoors within two metres of an unmasked person must wear appropriate eye protection and masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, says the Ministry of Labour, Training, and Skills Development. Ministry inspectors are now enforcing this requirement.

WSPS Strategic Advisor Dean Anderson believes there is much to be learned from our experiences dealing with COVID-19.

"The pandemic has taught us that if you put rules in place, people will follow them much more than you may realize," says Anderson. "For many of us, this includes raising the bar on our expectations for visitors to our farms as well as what we expect from young people."

This course describes the steps workplaces can take to plan for employee absences and business continuity.