Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) is a workplace assessment method used to identify job specific hazards, assess their risk, and consider mechanisms to either eliminate, mitigate, and or control the hazards. Sections 25 and 27 of the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) clearly states that “employers” and “supervisors” have the legal responsibility to advise the worker of the existence of any potential or actual danger to the health and safety of the worker of which they are aware. That includes any workforce provided by a temporary help agency or any other individual that performs work at the workplace. This legal requirement also applies to companies and individuals that are classified as “constructors” on the job site, and thus coordinate multiple workers that are directly employed by other organizations used to identify and control unacceptable risks relating to the performance of job tasks.

The OHSA does not prescribe how and when a Job Hazards Analysis needs to be done. It is reasonable to infer that a JHA must be complete before a job function is introduced, if significant changes are made to the work process, or new equipment has been introduced into the work process.

You will gain knowledge of:

• Regulatory requirements for hazard assessment

• Formulation of suitable JHA procedures, and/or consistent methodologies

• Performing accurate characterization of job tasks

• Properly identifying key hazards in the workplace

• Producing criteria to promote objective and reliable risk-ratings

• "Judgment Drift" - essentially the phenomenon whereby the evaluator's hazard and risk perceptions change over the course of the project, resulting in systematic differences in JHA outcomes over the life of the project

• Selection of knowledgeable / qualified personnel to conduct the JHAs

• The mechanisms to ensure consistency among multiple persons performing JHAs

• Adequate data management systems and procedures

Module 1 - Basic Concepts and Definitions

Module 2 - What is a "Workplace Hazard/Risk Analysis"?

Module 3 - Potential Benefits and Uses of HAs

Module 4 - Relevent OHS Legislation

Module 5 - Types and Focuses of Hazard Assessments

Module 6 - Underlying Decision Logic for Hazard Assessments

Module 7 - Generic Steps in Performing a Hazard Assessment

Module 8 - Performing a Hazard Assessment

Module 9 - Examples of Outputs

The course should be of particular interest for personnel in Provincially-regulated organizations, but also worthwhile for anyone interested in producing valid and useful JHAs.

This course provides JHA methodological, data management, and data utilization guidance based on lessons learned by REA through completion of JHAs for over 10,000 job positions for federal government organizations employing well over 100,000 personnel.

Public: $795/Participant + Tax
In-House: Please contact us