Province aims to train Health & Safety Reps with new funding

The Ontario government is investing $10.5 million dollars to prevent workplace illness and injuries by improving health and safety awareness and practices at the up to 60,000 small businesses across the province over the next 3 years.

All small businesses with 6 to 19 employees are required to have a health and safety rep and can apply for this training.

The Small Business Health & Safety Training Program will provide free online training to Health and Safety reps to  keep workers safe in retail, construction, health care, accommodation and food services as well as other sectors.

The Ontario government will cover the $25 cost of registration of the training course as well as reimburse small businesses upt o $150 towards the time the worker and health rep is away from work on training.