- Region 1 virtual educational
- January 14, 21, and 28, 2025
- 6 pm – 9 pm each evening
- Registration deadline: Friday, Dec. 13 at 4:30pm
- To apply, complete this application and email it to Mary MacDonald, Regional Secretary, at [email protected]
Courses
Each of the courses will be held virtually by Zoom over three evenings – Tuesday, January 14, Tuesday, January 21, and Tuesday, January 28, 2025 – from 6 pm – 9 pm each evening.
Course Confirmations – Once your application has been received, you will be automatically enrolled in your course selection.
Electronic Course Materials will be emailed to all registered participants prior to the course start date along with a Zoom link.
OPSEU/SEFPO Health and Safety Level 2
The course is designed for Health and Safety committee members and union activists with a strong interest in Health and Safety. Participants learn how to be more effective members of their JHSC’s as they work in small groups learning how to better identify, categorize, and control hazards. Using case studies and examples from their own workplaces, participants learn how to improve workplace inspections, and how to begin accident and illness investigations. The course offers the opportunity to prioritize and strategize around health and safety problems and to address problems specific to participants’ own workplaces. The course builds on the material in OPSEU’s Level 1 course and assumes that participants have a basic knowledge of the Occupational health and Safety Act.
Stewards 3: Dealing with Discipline
This is an advanced level steward course. It is suggested that participants take Stewards 1 and Stewards 2 prior to signing up for this program. Dealing with Discipline is a skills and knowledge focused workshop that will assist union activists in their duties representing members that are facing discipline up to and including dismissal. The course bridges concepts from Stewards 1 and 2, Basic and Advanced Grievance Handling and Workplace Investigations.
Participants should bring their Collective Agreements to the course.
Registration information
- Please ensure to provide your personal email address (employer email addresses will not be accepted).
- The participant and course selection process will be carried out in accordance with the OPSEU/SEFPO Education Policy.
- When registering, participants must confirm that they have access to a computer with proper internet connections (training can not be completed over a cell phone). The computer must have audio and a camera. We highly recommend leaving the camera ‘on’ during the training for full participation.
- This virtual training is being delivered via ZOOM. If you do not have ZOOM, please download the free Zoom software at www.zoom.us in advance of the training.
- Please Note: As these courses are being held virtually, no expenses will be reimbursed including Family/Attendant Care & Child Care Expenses, except in special circumstances where expenses have been pre-approved. To inquire further about pre-approval, please email Lorri Foley, Convenor at [email protected] and copy Mary MacDonald, Regional Secretary at [email protected].
- Lost wages will not be reimbursed. Own time is not paid for virtual training. *LBED members must submit an RUL (unpaid). If required, you are responsible for making your own time-off arrangements.
- Complete the HR Accommodation Form for any specific accommodation requests. Please email the completed form to the Equity Unit at [email protected] and copy Mary MacDonald, Regional Secretary at [email protected].
- As a reminder in accordance with OPSEU/SEFPO policy, full attendance is mandatory for all participants at the educational. If you are unable to attend with Full Attendance, without an acceptable reason, you will not receive credit for the course and your expenses (if any) may not be paid.