Forestry Occupational Health and Safety Leadership Accreditation

FOHS Leadership Accreditation brochure PDF (314kb)

Program Overview
The aim of the Leadership Accreditation program is to help forestry firms meet their due diligence obligations by building the leadership skills and health and safety knowledge of supervisors, managers and workers who carry out supervisory or health and safety functions.

The Leadership Accreditation Program consists of two phases: the Performance Management phase and the Occupational Health and Safety phase. To achieve accreditation, candidates must complete both phases of the program.

Performance Management Phase
The six one-day courses in the Performance Management phase of the program were developed and are delivered by Gary Phillips, CRSP, principal trainer and consultant with Northwest Training & Development. These six courses cover a broad range of supervisory skills and knowledge.

The six required courses in the Performance Management phase of the program are:

• Leadership Roles & Styles – the four main styles of leadership and how to apply the appropriate style to specific individuals and situations.
• Communication Skills – identifying what’s important to subordinates in their job, their team and their work relationships.
• Conflict Resolution – the five negotiating styles and how they affect workplace relations.
• Developing Effective Teams – the key elements of team-building.
• Performance Management – setting and evaluating performance goals.
• Planning and Time Management – characteristics of good plans and good objectives.
  

Health and Safety Phase
The Health and Safety phase of the program consists of a number of existing OFSWA training courses relating directly to health and safety in the workplace. These courses are delivered by OFSWA Consultant Trainers and must be completed to achieve accreditation.

Participants from all sectors of the forest industry must complete the following OFSWA courses:

• Incident Investigation
• JHSC Certification Part Two: Workplace-Specific Hazard Training
• Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations
• Planned Workplace Inspection & Hazard Recognition
• WHMIS in Forestry
  

Participants from each of the following sectors must also take each of the following OFSWA courses:

Sawmill/silviculture
Mobile Machine Mechanic
Machine Guarding
Lockout
Ergonomic Injury Prevention
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Logging
Mobile Machine Lockout Safety Meeting Topic
Machine Guarding
Mechanical Harvesting/Forestry Pit and Road Construction Equipment Operator: Core Module (Mechanical harvesting only)
Professional Chainsaw Operation & Professional Cable Skidding (Conventional logging only)

Veneer/plywood
Mobile Machine Lockout Safety Training
Machine Guarding
Lockout
Ergonomic Injury Prevention

Note: Leadership Accreditation participants may pre-qualify for any of the nine occupational health and safety courses in the Occupational Health and Safety phase of the program. Those who request prequalification must have successfully completed the OFSWA training course delivered by an OFSWA Consultant Trainer or an OFSWA-approved trainer within five years of the date of application for the program.

Note: Courses available from other sources may be similar to the courses required in both the Health and Safety phase and the Performance Management phase of the Leadership Accreditation program. OFSWA will consider the information you provide about these courses and may grant an equivalency credit. The only exceptions are the Mechanical Harvesting/Forestry Pit and Road Construction Equipment Operator certification program or the Professional Chainsaw Operation and Professional Cable Skidder operator certification programs.

In order to request an equivalency credit, you must have successfully completed the course in question within five years of the date of application for the program.

 

 

 

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