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Always FREE courses - Workhub’s New Understanding what Cyber Threats are

All of Workhub’s courses are free. Choose from any of our 80+ courses spanning 6,794 minutes of training, or you can even load and manage your own courses – all for free.

Today we highlight one of our free courses – The New Updated Cyber Security – part two - THREATS!

Protect yourself by staying informed. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Our free course covers the following topics:
● The Different Cyber Threats
○ Phishing
○ Malware
○ Ransomware
● How to Secure Your Personal Devices
○ Install security software
○ Always update
○ Watch downloads
○ Customize your browser security settings
○ Use a passphrase or complex password
○ Encrypt emails
○ Avoid public Wi-Fi
○ Use Multi-Factor Authentication
● How to Secure Your Personal Accounts

Simple steps to protect yourself from Fraudsters:
-If a caller is asking for your personal information, hang up and call the official phone number of the legitimate source.
-For email and message spoofing (them pretending to be someone else) - hover your mouse over the sender’s email address and look closely for differences in the address.
-Be suspicious of anyone you meet online who claims their love or friendship to you, tells you a traumatic story, or makes you feel uncomfortable.
-If you get a threatening call or message, hang up or delete it. If you feel you need to verify the legitimacy, contact the organization handling the supposed threat.
-Maybe discuss a codeword that is private to only you and those close to you – ask them for it if you feel pressured. You would be shocked on how real AI can impersonate anyone. This lesson cost the head of a Telecom company $25 million after two live faked video meetings.

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Always FREE courses - Workhub’s New TDG – Transportation of Dangerous Goods

All of Workhub’s courses are free. Choose from any of our 80+ courses spanning 6,794 minutes of training, or you can even load and manage your own courses – all for free.

Today we highlight one of our free courses – The New Updated TDG – Transportation of Dangerous Goods!

Our online TDG course provides essential information regarding the legal transportation of dangerous goods on Canadian roads. Upon completing this course, participants will be familiar with topics including: the regulations governing the transportation of dangerous goods; the nine classifications of dangerous goods; TDG placards, labels, and symbols; emergency response requirements in case of a product spill or release; and documentation requirements.

Our topics will cover:
● The history of TDG
● Changes to the TDG regulations
● And the elements of TDG

One of the big changes Is that the concept and term “adequately trained” has been removed entirely. Instead, the new training standard focuses on competency-based training. As you know, each mode of transport requires a special and unique set of competencies and skills. So, it is up to the employers to assess and ensure that workers can execute their tasks competently. While Transport Canada hasn’t issued any specific training requirements, they do specify that general awareness training and job-specific training are both required. This is one of the reasons why we highlight a second big change … “Certificates of Training” will be replaced with “Certificates of competency”. Certificates of competency will need to indicate that workers have received both the general knowledge and function-specific training required by the standard. To learn more and work your way through what you need to know and understand about these changes and other TDG changes feel free to review our free TDG course.

Please note that all these new lessons are now available in French and low resolution.

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New Hires Need Safety - Part 5/6 - Creating a Culture of Safety

With the highest rates of injury incurred by the newest staff – we need to make a change at the starting blocks. Strategies for Fostering a First-Safety-First Mindset:

It all starts with building a great Safety Culture that provides focus from day one. This “safety is a priority” approach sets the tone for the entire workforce.

Foremost, you must have leadership commitment. Leaders must set clear expectations and leading by example. The way leaders can do this is by participating in safety training, regularly communicate the importance of safety, share safety goals, progress, and any incidents transparently and allocate resources for safety initiatives (such as training programs and safety equipment). Offer a wide range of safety training programs and delivery options. Consider including recognition programs and reward employees who follow safety protocols to encourage a culture where everyone values and practices safety.

Employees also play a vital role through safety practices. Involvement in safety committees, providing suggestions and sharing safety ideas and concerns, holding regular safety meetings, review incidents, brainstorm improvements and using continuous safety training.

Another key towards a safety culture is clear and consistent communication through regular safety meetings, newsletters, or even digital platforms. And Finally, the whole process needs ongoing monitoring and evaluation through areas like audits, incident tracking and employee feedback.

The culture of the organization will drive the attitude towards safety. Leaders must lead by example. The ultimate responsibility of a leader is to safeguard well-being while advancing outcomes. If new workers see shortcuts are taken and awarded or bad decisions are tolerated … they will adopt that behavior. To avoid serious workplace accidents that will have serious long-term impacts develop a culture of safety and implement an effective safety and training program. When it comes to safety – great leaders know that ultimately tomorrow is the reward for working safely today.

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New Hires Need Safety - Part 1/6 - Understanding the Importance of New Hire Safety

Both Companies and their Employees rely on work safety: Over-COMMUNICATE is the KEY! Beyond legal requirements - it is vital to provide employees with proper training to prevent accidents, and build awareness, culture, reputation and trust.

Stunningly, 34% of all workplace injuries happen to new hires within their first year. This is due to a new work environment, lack of experience, and not being connected to the company's safety culture.

It all starts by building a great Safety Culture (so much info on how-to google search) from day one. This “safety is a priority” approach sets the tone for the entire workforce. “Safety first, because accidents last”. Leaders, managers and other employees must set clear expectations and lead by example. Show the new employee the seriousness of safety through training, regularly communicated safety goals, and share progress and any incidents transparently.

New employees are eager to show their effectiveness and possibly even look for short cuts. It is far better to discuss procedures - to determine if there are new paths for efficiency, and also, if there are relative dangers versus the current methods and procedures. Emphasize real life incident possibilities related to your workplace (like past incidents) and discuss items why we use lock-out tag-out, or the damage that can occur from a dropped hammer, or how dangerous a forklift can be.

Finally, particularly with new employees, use ongoing monitoring and evaluation. Use discussion, documentation, ongoing training and re-training, reinforcement and audit as well as employee feedback. Emphasis risk/reward and why doing the right job right is so important.

Conclusion: Over COMMUNICATE - To avoid serious workplace accidents that will have serious long-term impacts develop a culture of safety and implement an effective safety and training program. The culture of the organization will drive the attitude towards safety. If new workers see that shortcuts are taken and awarded, or bad decisions are tolerated … they will adopt that dangerous behavior. Training a new employee may even provide insight into some of the existing issues with current employees. Ultimately - Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.