Course details
Cannabis & the Workplace: Impairment Awareness for Employers
This comprehensive course is intended to provide employers, managers, supervisors, and any other professionals directly impacted with a basis for enhanced awareness and response to impairment in general, and with a particular focus on impairment from cannabis use.
Course Overview
This comprehensive course is intended to provide employers, managers, supervisors, and any other professionals directly impacted with a basis for enhanced awareness and response to impairment in general, and with a particular focus on impairment from cannabis use. This course meets the requirements set out in the COAA Canadian Model for Providing a Safe Workplace.
Topics Covered
- Understand what impairment is, and impairment awareness language
- Be shown details on cannabis, alcohol, and other drugs, and how they affect users
- Be explained best practices for maintaining high impairment awareness on worksites
- Review information on impaired driving
- Understand how to react to situations of impairment
- Understand the process for documenting reasonable cause and triggering testing
- Know the importance of confidentiality and record-keeping
- Know when and why to test for impairment
- Get some post-incident testing tips and timelines
- Know when and why to use drug testing for reasonable cause
- Understand how testing can happen
- Know who is responsible for testing
- Be reminded of the importance of policy updates and explained which updates should be prioritized
This course takes approximately 45 minutes to complete
A passing grade of 80% or higher required. Up to 3 attempts are provided.
A certificate will be provided upon the successful completion of this course
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