OHS Legislation Foundations

Formerly Legislation, Standards, and Policy (LSP), this course sets participants up to be confident in finding, interpreting, and applying the legislation, standards, and policy related to commercial transportation, and helps carriers and safety professionals ensure their organizations achieve and maintain compliance, positively contributing to safety and success.

OHS Legislation Foundations introduces participants to the key documentation that governs compliance and safety across the transportation industry. This course both defines and explains the linkages between legislation, standards, and organizational policy/procedure, and provides practical learning opportunities to interpret and apply each. This course also considers how each is applied in federal and provincial workplaces and explains the criteria for establishing jurisdiction. Finally, the course looks at policy and procedure as the tools used by an organization to communicate matters of safety and compliance to workers.

This course begins with a look at:

• Various forms of legislation and a basic overview of how they are structured, and the key language (words) used to write them.
• Examine standards and how they are both different but also related to various acts and regulations.
• Introduction to policy and procedure, linking both to the standards and legislation.

The focus of this course is primarily on OHS and commercial vehicle legislation and standards, but the basic principles apply to all areas of law. Later modules in the course examine the differences between federal and provincial employers and the importance of communicating compliance and regulatory information through the use of organizational policy and procedure.