The Creating a Safe Industrial Workplace course delivers essential training to help workers recognize and avoid the most common hazards found in industrial environments. With injuries occurring every few seconds in workplaces across North America, understanding how to prevent them is critical. This course blends safety fundamentals with an engaging, approachable delivery style to keep learners’ attention while reinforcing key concepts.

Participants explore high-risk tasks such as lifting, working at heights, navigating confined spaces, and responding to emergencies. The course highlights safe practices, explains how and why injuries occur, and offers clear steps workers can take to reduce risks on the job. It emphasizes awareness, planning, and proper technique—all geared toward helping every worker finish their shift safely.

Industrial environments pose a wide range of hazards, from fall risks to fire exposure to electrical dangers. This course provides practical guidance and safety-focused decision-making strategies that apply across many work settings.

Core Learning Highlights

• How to lift safely and when to seek assistance
• Recognizing confined space hazards
• Safe work practices when working at heights
• Reducing slips, trips, and falls
• Effective emergency planning and evacuation
• Fire response fundamentals
• Electrical safety essentials

Proper Lifting Techniques

• How posture affects lifting safety
• Common lifting mistakes and how to avoid them

Working Safely in Confined Spaces

• Atmospheric hazards, communication, and safe entry
• Key risks and prevention strategies

Working Safely from Heights

• Essential fall protection measures
• Safe practices for elevated work

Slips, Trips & Falls

• Common causes and simple prevention methods
• How to identify and address slipping hazards

Fire Prevention

• Safe work practices around heat sources
• Steps to prevent workplace fires

Preventing Electrical Shock

• How to stay safe around energized equipment
• Hazard identification and protective measures

Approximately 30 minutes

A score of 80% is required to pass. Learners may take the course up to three times to achieve the required mark. Reinforcement quizzes appear throughout the course to support knowledge retention.

A downloadable and printable certificate is available upon successful course completion.