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Health and Safety in Small Businesses: A Practical Approach

Build a safe and legally compliant small business workplace. Master essential health and safety practices tailored for Canadian regulations.

Created byJohn Duplessis
5.0
(19 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated May 29, 2025
Health and Safety in Small Businesses: A Practical Approach

What You'll Learn

check_circleExplain H&S importance for small firms.
check_circleOutline core H&S program elements.
check_circleIdentify legal H&S duties in Canada.
check_circleNavigate Canadian H&S laws.
check_circleOvercome common H&S barriers.

About This Course

Welcome to the course "Health and Safety in Small Businesses."

Investing in workplace safety is fundamental for building trust, professionalism, and sustainability in your small business. This course addresses common challenges like limited time and budget, providing practical, actionable strategies.

Key learning outcomes include:

  • Discovering and utilizing free and low-cost resources for effective safety implementation.
  • Understanding and fulfilling legal requirements for incident reporting and investigation.
  • Learning how to conduct thorough investigations focused on identifying root causes.
  • Developing simple, effective systems for reporting all workplace incidents and near misses.
  • Cultivating a positive safety culture that enhances employee morale, engagement, and overall business performance.

Equip yourself with the knowledge to protect your team, minimize risks, and demonstrate strong, caring leadership.

Your Instructor

John Duplessis
John Duplessis

Trainer | Mentor | Performance Driven | Hands-On Trouble Shooter

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John Duplessis, B.Sc., CRSP, is a recognized leader in Occupational Health & Safety (OH\&S), dedicated to helping organizations build safer, more resilient workplaces. With over 30 years of experience in high-risk sectors—including oil & gas, construction, green energy, and manufacturing—John has built a reputation for translating complex safety legislation and standards into clear, practical strategies that drive measurable results. An internationally respected trainer and consultant, John has delivered programs across Canada and abroad on topics such as ISO 45001 implementation, incident investigation, safety leadership, and building strong safety cultures. His approach emphasizes leadership at every level—engaging executives, supervisors, and front-line workers alike—to foster systems that balance top-down accountability with bottom-up input. John’s career includes senior safety roles in major energy and construction firms, as well as decades of consulting, auditing, and mentoring.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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