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SUMMARY:Level 3 Appeals and Dispute Resolution – Niagara Regional Labour Council – St. Catharines
DESCRIPTION:LEVEL 3: APPEALS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION\nAn interactive and analytical course\, Prevention Link has developed a holistic and intuitive course meant to prepare participants for WSIB and WSIAT hearings. Using case file examples and mock hearings\, this intensive course will provide participants with the practical skills to prepare and present oral hearings before the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and the Workplace Safety and Insurance and Appeals Tribunal. \nParticipants will review a file\, gather additional evidence\, research law\, policy\, and precedent\, and prepare witnesses. They will also prepare witnesses for questioning\, cross-questioning\, and re-directing at a hearing. \nPrerequisites required for this course: Level 1 & Level 2 \nDuration: In-person 36-hour course with 3 mandatory evening classes \nLocation: Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\n2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines \nCost: $815.00\nIncludes lunch each day and 3 dinners \nRegistration deadline: February 27  \nHow to register: Click here to download the registration form.
URL:https://www.preventionlink.ca/event/nrlc-level3/
LOCATION:Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\, 2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines\, Ontario\, L2N 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Level Three: Appeals and Dispute Resolution
ORGANIZER;CN="Niagara Regional Labour Council":MAILTO: nrlc.clc@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Niagara Regional Labour Council 2025 Health & Safety/WSIB Educational – In-Person
DESCRIPTION:Niagara Regional Labour Council Health and Safety/WSIB Educational\nJuly 21\, 2025 at 9:00 AM – July 25\, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST \nBest Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\n2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines\, Ontario\, L2N 4G9 \nPrevention Link\nWSIB Level 1 & Level 2: 5-Day\nRights & Obligations: Provides an overview of Ontario’s compensation system\, the development of Legislation and the general principles of the system. Worker and employer obligations\, roles and responsibilities with respect to work reintegration are covered. The WSIB work reintegration policies are discussed and the new direction that the Board is taking with respect to returning workers to their pre-injury job with the accident employer. Disability Prevention best practices and shared responsibilities are discussed and ways in which unions should participate in work reintegration are explored. Protections under other legislation are discussed should a work reintegration plan not provide sufficient protection to a worker. \nBenefits and Services: Participants learn: the significance of legislation (OHSA and WSIA)\, regulations and policy\, changes to the legislation and the effects these changes have had on benefits; and the benefits available under the WSIA in the three different eras\, including PT\, TT\, FEL\, NEL\, and LOE. Detailed examples of benefit calculations and parameters affecting final number to be explored. The structure of WSIB and the appeal system are described in relation to the New Delivery Module and the roles of each WSIB position. Participants will also learn how to make a case plan for a successful outcome and different types of evidence to use. The organization of a Board file is presented and participants will explore how to effectively review a file. \nPrevention Link\nWSIB Level 4: Return to Work: 5-Day (Pre-requisite is Levels 1 & 2)\nThe fourth of six certification courses offered within Prevention Link’s core curriculum\, is designed for participants who will or currently assist injured workers\, individually or collectively\, through a therapeutic return to work (RTW) and provides workplace parties with the tools necessary to develop strategies that ensure successful outcomes. Through the exploration of leading research\, law\, and evidence-based best practices\, participants learn: The principles of good return to work practices and the Duty to Accommodate; Legal lessons from precedent-setting cases and their practical use; Barriers to successful return to work and their elimination using the social model of disability and therapeutic return to work principles; An in-depth comparison between older methods of disability management and the newer progressive disability prevention model; The paradigm shift from management to prevention and the roles of the parties involved (employer\, an injured worker\, representative\, H&S representatives) including their rights and responsibilities in the process. \nWHSC\nLevel 1 Occupational Health & Safety: 30 hours\nWHSC Level 1 is a comprehensive foundational program build from a worker perspective focusing on the legal right to know about all workplace hazards and the right to participate in efforts to eliminate or control hazardous exposures. It is also an essential onboarding point for workers and worker representatives thinking of expanding their occupational Health and Safety advocacy. This course is also the pre-requisite for Instructor training. \nWHSC\n3-Day Bundle: Wednesday to Friday\nMaking the Link Between Occupational Disease and the Workplace: 15 Hours\nOccupational disease claims more worker lives than traumatic fatalities yet remains greatly under recognized and unaddressed. WHSC Making the Link Between Occupational Disease and the Workplace is a two-day program designed to equip workers and their representatives with the knowledge\, skills\, and tools to understand and advocate for occupational disease prevention. Through engaging activities\, participants will learn about the science of epidemiology and environmental monitoring and their limits\, body mapping exercises\, workplace inspections\, job hazard analysis\, worker surveys and exposure profiles and their role in occupational disease prevention. \nUPDATED GHS/WHMIS: 3 Hours\nTraining workers about hazardous exposures on the job is legally mandated but its’ also a tool to help identify and prevent exposures that can lead to disease. Research evidence suggest between five and 16 per cent of cancers are work-related. When we fail to link toxic workplace exposures to occupational diseases cases also go unreported and undercompensated. This is especially true for occupational illnesses including cancer which typically have long latency periods between workplace exposure(s) and disease onset. \nUPDATED Documenting Health & Safety: 3 Hours\nThe WHSCs three-hour program\, ‘Documenting Health and Safety’ is a hands-on\, jump-start documenting system developed in response to this need. Participants will examine six basic areas: (1) why documenting health and safety is critical\, (2) ways to document\, (3) specific types of documents to use (4) what to document (5) when to document\, and (6) how to organize their documents. Participants take part in a work refusal and sit in on a JHSC meeting to practice their note taking skills while listening to interactive audio-led worksheets. Action Objective: Identify\, track\, document and detail health and safety issues at work to improve working conditions and protect workers from reprisals \nHOW TO REGISTER: Click here to download the registration form.\nRegistration Deadline EXTENDED: June 30\, 2025
URL:https://www.preventionlink.ca/event/nrlc-2025-health-safety-wsib-educational/
LOCATION:Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\, 2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines\, Ontario\, L2N 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Level Four: Return to Work,Level One: Rights and Obligations,Level Two: Benefits and Services
ORGANIZER;CN="Niagara Regional Labour Council":MAILTO: nrlc.clc@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Niagara Regional Labour Council 2024 Health & Safety/ WSIB Educational in-person
DESCRIPTION:Niagara Regional Labour Council Health and Safety/WSIB Educational\nJuly 15\, 2024 at 9:00 AM – July 19\, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST \nBest Western St.Catharines \n2 North Service Rd \nSt.Catharines\, Ontario \nL2N 2G9 \nPrevention Link courses offered\nLevel 1: Rights & Obligations:  Provides an overview of Ontario’s compensation system\, the development of legislation and the general principles of the system. Worker and employer obligations\, roles and responsibilities with respect to work reintegration are covered. The WSIB work reintegration policies are discussed and the new direction that the Board is taking with respect to returning workers to their pre-injury job with the accident employer. Disability Prevention best practices and shared responsibilities are discussed and ways in which unions should participate in work reintegration are explored. Protections under other legislation are discussed should a work reintegration plan not provide sufficient protection to a worker. \nLevel 2: Benefits and Services:  Participants learn: the significance of legislation (OHSA and WSIA)\, regulations and policy\, changes to the legislation and the effects these changes have had on benefits; and the benefits available under the WSIA in the three different eras\, including PT\, TT\, FEL\, NEL\, and LOE. Detailed examples of benefit calculations and parameters affecting final number will be explored. The structure of WSIB and the appeal system are described in relation to the New Delivery Module and the roles of each WSIB position. Participants will also learn how to make a case plan for a successful outcome and different types of evidence to use. The organization of a Board file is presented and participants will explore how to effectively review a file. \nLevel 5: Medical Orientation (Prerequisite is WSIB level 1 & 2): This advanced course is designed to assist participants in understanding medical terminology\, anatomy\, and medical testing so they can interpret and be comfortable with Medical information in Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) files.  Participants will be exposed to medical terminology and human anatomy with attention to the different organ systems (skeletal\, muscular\, nervous\, auditory\, ocular\, respiratory\, circulatory\, digestive and integumentary).  Special focus will be placed on injuries commonly seen in WSIB cases (back\, bone\, MSI’s\, lower extremities).  Disorders such as chronic pain and fibromyalgia are discussed in detail.  Mental stress related injuries are examined and the WSIB policies relating to traumatic stress\, psycho-traumatic disability and behavioural disorders are presented. Learn how disability and permanent rewards are determined\, how they are assessed and the different types of awards (PPDS and NELs). \nPrevention Link-3 Day Course Bundle: 3 day (July 17 to July 19) \nWorkers Comp 101: (day one) \nThis course introduces participants to the compensation system in Ontario\, the history of compensation Legislation\, its principals and third party rights of action.  Key definitions within the system are described Including: worker\, employer\, accident\, disablement\, recurrence\, secondary injuries\, aggravation\, Occupational disease\, stress and chronic pain.  Participants learn about injury reporting and how claims are filed\, as well as the responsibilities of the workplace parties and medical professionals. Benefits and Services for injured workers are presented. \nReturn to Work 101: (day two) \nThe objective of this course is to provide participants with the tools to develop strategies to assist Workers with disabilities\, individually and collectively and return them to long-term healthy and Productive employment.  The course also reviews noteworthy case law and Human Rights Legislation. \nPrinciples of Accommodation Law: (day three) \nThe workshop focuses on the most frequently cited ground of discrimination that is disability.  It looks At how disability and the duty to accommodate plays out with emphasis on employment.  The Workshop will help participants recognize rights\, obligations and principals of accommodation (respect for dignity\, individualization\, integration and full participation) \nClick here to download the registration form.  \nTo learn more about the educational\, please visit: https://niagaralabour.ca/events/summer-school-2024/ \nThe registration deadline is June 1\, 2024
URL:https://www.preventionlink.ca/event/niagara-regional-labour-council-2024-health-safety-wsib-educational/
LOCATION:Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\, 2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines\, Ontario\, L2N 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Level One: Rights and Obligations,Level Two: Benefits and Services,Principles of Accommodation Law,Return to Work 101,Workers's Compensation 101
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SUMMARY:Niagara Regional Labour Council 2019 Health & Safety/ WSIB Educational
DESCRIPTION:Niagara Regional Labour Council Summer 2019 Health & Safety/WSIB Educational will be offering  ODRT Level 1\, 2 and 3. The school will be held on July 22-26 at the Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre in St. Catharines\, Ontario. \nDownload Flyer and Registration Form\nLearn more about ODRT:\n\n\nLevel 1: Rights and Obligations & Level 2: Benefits & Services\n\n\nLevel 3: Appeals and Dispute Resolution\n\n\nThe registration deadline is June 14\, 2019.
URL:https://www.preventionlink.ca/event/niagara-regional-labour-council-2019-health-safety-wsib-educational/
LOCATION:Best Western St. Catharines Hotel & Conference Centre\, 2 North Service Road\, St. Catharines\, Ontario\, L2N 4G9\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Niagara Regional Labour Council":MAILTO: nrlc.clc@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Niagara Regional Labour Council's Health & Safety Summer School: ODRT Level 1\, 2 & 3
DESCRIPTION:The Niagara Regional Labour Council will offer Prevention Link’s Occupational Disability Response Training (ODRT) at its upcoming Summer Health and Safety Summer School\, this July. \nLearn more about ODRT: \n\nLevel I: Rights and Obligations\nLevel 2: Benefits & Services\nLevel 3: Appeals and Dispute Resolution\n\nRegistration deadline is June 16\, 2017.
URL:https://www.preventionlink.ca/event/nrlc-2017-summer-school/
LOCATION:Brock University\, 500 Glenridge Avenue\,\, St Catharines\, Ontario\, L2S 3A1\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Niagara Regional Labour Council":MAILTO: nrlc.clc@gmail.com
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