November 2014
Confronting Occupational Disability (Toronto)
This 2 day composite course includes sessions on The Disability Dilemma, Disability Prevention Strategies and Accommodation Essentials. Participants will examine the impact of work injury and disability, on injured workers, their families, employers, unions, government, workplace insurance and health care providers. They will discuss ways that workplaces can achieve a strategic fit with legal requirements and best practices for return to work. Participants will also examine the need to shift the paradigm from viewing occupational disability as a weakness and…
February 2019
2019 Workers’ Compensation 101 & Return to Work 101 Workshop – TORONTO
Join Prevention Link for a comprehensive workshop that introduces participants to Ontario’s compensation system by exploring compensation legislation, its principles and third party rights of action, services and benefits, as well as strategies to assist workers’ with disabilities. Courses offered: Workers’ Compensation 101 on Feb. 13, 2019 Return to Work 101 on Feb. 14, 2019 Who should attend: Anyone in a role with whom workers make contact following a workplace injury or with disability accommodation requests: workers, employers, union reps, stewards, supervisors. Course…
June 2019
Workers’ Compensation Conference, June 20-21, offers Mental Health 101
The OFL & ONIWG are sponsoring an exciting Workers’ Compensation Conference on June 20-21 at the IBEW Local 353 Hall in Toronto. The purpose of this conference is to inform our activists and advocates, to review and reinvigorate the Workers’ Comp is a Right campaign, to work with our system partners to make the compensation system fairer for injured workers and to support collaboration with labour and the injured worker community to achieve these goals. Learn more about the workshop:…
October 2019
Mental Health First Aid – Toronto -SOLD OUT
Prevention Link is thrilled to offer this two-day course gives participants the skills to provide assistance to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Just as physical first aid is administered to an injured person before medical treatment can be offered or until the crisis is resolved. **Participants must be present for the full length of the course in order to be certified. Courses offered: Mental Health First Aid (offered on behalf of the Mental…
February 2020
Level 1, Level 2 and RTW 101 – Toronto
Join Prevention Link for a comprehensive workshop that introduces participants to Ontario’s compensation system by exploring compensation legislation, its principles and third party rights of action, services and benefits, as well as strategies to assist workers’ with disabilities. Courses offered and Dates: Level 1: Rights and Obligations - Feb. 3-4 Level 2: Benefits & Services - Feb. 5-6 Return to Work 101 - Feb. 7 Who should attend: Anyone in a role with whom workers make contact following a workplace injury…