November 17 - 20, 2025
Please note that $100 fee for out of district to hold your your spot.
English
Classroom
CUPE/SCFP
Health and Safety an Introduction; Basics of Incident Investigation; Understanding Mental Health; Preventing mental injuries at work, Recommendations and notetaking and Identifying and documenting hazards
Health and Safety - An Introduction
Nov 17, 2025 (9:00am-4:00pm (Eastern))
Nov 18, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Eastern))
This course serves as an introduction into the world of health and safety and explores different basic concepts such as: • Identification of hazards; • Hierarchy of controls; • The basic role of health and safety committees; • Basics on the right to refuse. NOTE: See more Health and Safety courses in the Health and Safety Learning Series.
HS - Basics of Incident Investigations
Pre-requisites: Health and Safety - An Introduction
Nov 18, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Eastern))Learn how to identify root causes of workplace incidents, injuries, and diseases, common routes of entry of toxic substances, and your role in the investigation process. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
SLS - Understanding mental health
Pre-requisites: Introduction to Stewarding
Nov 19, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Eastern))Explore the steward’s role in supporting and representing members dealing with mental health issues. Learn how to challenge stigma, and how to approach a conversation with a member about a possible mental health issue.
SLS - HS - Preventing Mental Injuries at Work
Nov 19, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Eastern))
New forms of work, job insecurity, work intensification, high demands, violence and a resulting poor work-life balance are resulting in psychosocial and mental health problems in CUPE workplaces. This module focuses on the workplace as the cause or a contributor to mental health issues, and not the individual. Discuss strategies and actions that actually help make workplaces psychologically healthier and safer.
HS - Recommendations and notetaking
Pre-requisites: Health and Safety - An Introduction
Nov 20, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Eastern))Learn how to takes notes at committee meetings and prepare recommendations. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Identifying and Documenting Hazards
Pre-requisites: Health and Safety - An Introduction
Nov 20, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Eastern))In this module, you will learn techniques for identifying hazards, such as body maps, surveys and inspections. You will also develop a methodology for dealing with the hazards you find. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
Oct 31, 2025
Holiday Inn Express
Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
18
Affiliate: $80
Non-affiliate: $90
The fee for this course is $80 for affiliated and $90 for non-affiliated and $100 for out of district to hold your your spot. Please make the cheque payable to Sault Ste Marie District CUPE Council 606-421 Bay Street, Station Tower, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 1X3. Cheque must be received 2 weeks prior to the course, not later than October 31, 2025. Fees covers morning and afternoon snacks.
There is significant demand for our workshops. If you need to cancel your registration, please email Liane Cecchetto, lcecchetto@cupe.ca, 944 Barrydowne Rd, unit 2, SUDBURY, Ontario P3A 3V3 as soon as possible.
Thanks for your interest in CUPE’s Union Education Program and for your ongoing leadership in our union!
In response to the health concerns of our members and staff, CUPE has implemented a Scent-Free Policy at all of our workshops. Scented products such as hair spray, perfume and deodorant can trigger reactions such as respiratory distress and headaches. Facilitators and participants are asked to refrain from using scented products while attending our workshops and meetings. Thank you for your cooperation.
Liane Cecchetto
lcecchetto@cupe.ca