This course covers essential skills required to handle food and equipment in a safe manner that prevents contamination and food borne illness. Topics covered include: Personal Hygiene, Factors of Foodborne Illness, Safe Food Handling Techniques, Legislation including Occupational Health and Safety including infection controls, Hazard Awareness, Safe Work Habits, Fire Hazards, and WHMIS (GHS).
An overview of ergonomic principles highlights basic worksite investigation and familiarization with basic principles relating to anatomy, biomechanics, physiology, manual material handling, cumulative trauma disorders and office ergonomics.
This course provides students with specificknowledge related to fire and life safety. Topicsinclude the chemistry and physics of fire,building design for life safety, and other aspectsof fire and life safety. Applicable legislationrelated to fire and life safety is also covered.
This course provides an overview of applied safety fundamentals. The course allows students to apply the principles used when identifying hazards and applying controls to a variety of common workplace safety risks. Topics include working at heights, confined space entry, electrical safety, hazardous energy, manual material handling, hot work, shop machinery and portable power tools. Students will...
Management systems formalize an organization's commitment to health and safety. This course provides students with basic knowledge of the integration of health and safety into organizational structure, function, culture and design. Topics include training needs analyses and adult learning principles. By the end of the course, students are able to deliver routine training programs. Students...
This course will deal with the identification of safety hazards which may be a source of injury to workers. Elimination of safety hazards will be discussed. This course will support the identification of occupational health and safety hazards in the workplace. Methods for identifying hazards and calculating risk with be discussed, including proven techniques for identifying hazards, assessing...
This course studies the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of chemical, physical and biological hazards arising in or from the workplace. WHMIS and other relevant legislation will also be covered. This course is offered through OntarioLearn by the host college, Algonquin College.
This course develops a foundational understanding of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), including addressing, ladder logic symbols, and their operation. Learn to build and troubleshoot simple circuits using multiple input and output devices. This course is ideal for individuals looking to enter the field of industrial automation. Topics Covered: - PLC addressing - Inputs and outputs - Timers...
Learn the fundamentals of bicycle maintenance, including tire repair, brake adjustments, gear tuning, and general upkeep. This hands-on course is designed for beginners and is specially created for parents and children to learn and work together while building practical skills. Why Take This Course? Save money on bicycle repairs by learning essential maintenance techniques, extend the lifespan of...
In this course students will be introduced to the study of sociology which looks at people and how they interact with each other and various social groups. This course will look at people's lives, their relationship to society as a whole, and how people are affected by the society in which they live. The concepts, theories and methods of the discipline will be introduced and discussed with...