Workplace Safety

This course ensures candidates understand wildfire suppression, including organization, behaviour and safety.

Learn fall protection systems and review the regulations and standards to keep you safe.

The Forest Worker Essentials (FWE) training program provides new forestry workers with the entry-level knowledge and skills required to work safely, productively, and sustainably in the forest industry in British Columbia.

Learn to identify basic hazards and controls, sling loads, check the set-up, and plan safe raising, moving, and lowering of loads through work areas. Students also gain in-depth advice on equipment and rigging problems.

This training program will prepare individuals for employment in the forestry industry, including tree planters, fire suppression workers and wildfire interface workers (fuel management).

Hazardous materials abound in many workplaces. Identify hazardous products, read and make labels, understand where to find treatment if you or someone else is exposed.