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Safety coordinator training gives new and part-time safety coordinators a practical way to do the job: advise the people who run the work, verify the controls that matter most, and report results that managers act on.
Many safety coordinators are handed the role with a binder and very little guidance. Some are hired into it. Others are the office manager, estimator or lead hand who was asked to “look after safety” on top of everything else. Without a clear picture of the job, the days fill up with chasing paperwork and correcting workers one at a time, while the work that could seriously hurt someone gets the least attention.
Calgary Safety Consultants offers Safety Coordinator Fundamentals as a self-paced online course for learners across Canada. Employers can enrol one new coordinator or everyone who carries safety duties, and each learner works through the course at their own pace.
Enrol online today. For questions about group enrolment, use the contact form or call 1-888-231-0358.
Serving employers across Calgary, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Canada.
For your team
A safety coordinator rarely struggles for lack of effort. The role usually goes wrong in a few predictable places: the coordinator becomes the person who polices the rules, supervisors step back from safety because “that’s the safety person’s job,” corrective actions are written down and never closed, and managers hear about problems after they’ve become expensive. Safety coordinator training gives your coordinator, and the supervisors and managers who work with them, one shared picture of what the role is for.
The training connects the role and its limits, priorities, reading the rules, influence without authority, hazard assessment, high-risk work, inspections, training, committees, contractors, incident response, regulator visits, indicators and audits. Examples are drawn from construction, manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, oil and gas services, health care and other Canadian workplaces.
Individual learners can enrol in the online course and start today. Employers enrolling several people buy the seats in one order and send us each learner’s details, and buying 10 or more seats of this course in one order saves 10%.
Self-paced online course
Safety Coordinator Fundamentals is delivered entirely online. Learners watch, read and practise on their own schedule, and pick up where they left off.
Why it matters
In most cases, OH&S legislation has no section that sets out the duties of a safety coordinator. The law puts its duties on employers, supervisors, workers and other parties, and the coordinator is there to help them meet those duties. You can see that structure in Alberta’s OHS Act, Regulation and Code, in Ontario’s Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act and, for federally regulated work, in Part II of the Canada Labour Code. Each province and territory has its own law, and what a person actually does at work matters more than the job title.
A coordinator who misreads the role can weaken a program without meaning to. If the coordinator does the supervisors’ inspections, signs off on work they don’t control or hands out discipline, the people who hold the legal duties stop owning them. A coordinator who advises, supports and verifies gets a different result: hazards controlled at the source, corrective actions that close, records an auditor or a client can follow, and managers who hear about problems while they’re still cheap to fix.
For employers working toward or maintaining a Certificate of Recognition (COR), a coordinator who keeps training records, inspections, investigations and corrective actions current makes audit preparation a routine task instead of a scramble.
Training doesn’t make anyone a competent person, a qualified person or a safety professional under any OH&S law, and it doesn’t replace the employer’s health and safety program or professional advice. It gives participants a structured, practical way to approach the role.
Know where the duties sitRead the rules that apply where you work
Advise, support and verifyCheck that the planned controls are in placeCourse content
The training follows eight modules, from the first week in the role to the day the program is audited:
The online safety coordinator course has 35 lessons, each with a narrated video, written lesson notes and a three-question knowledge check that requires 100% to continue, followed by a 20-question final exam with an 80% pass mark. Every part of every lesson includes a “trick of the trade,” a short habit a coordinator can use the next morning.
Learners also download a 233-page Student Reference Guide. It includes Canada-wide reference tables with official sources, and the Coordinator’s Toolkit of 32 worksheets and checklists, such as a 90-day plan, a legal register, a corrective action log and a one-page monthly safety report.
We do not replace the employer’s accountability. The employer remains responsible for its health and safety program, its hazard assessments and the training of its workers. Calgary Safety Consultants provides the training, practical tools and guidance within the agreed scope.
New and part-time coordinators
In many small and mid-sized companies, the safety coordinator is also the office manager, the project coordinator or a supervisor with a crew to run. There’s no safety department behind them, and often nobody to ask. The training is written for that person.
It helps a new or part-time coordinator to:
Supervisors and managers benefit too. When they understand what the coordinator is there to do, they’re more likely to use the coordinator early, on bids, purchases and changes, when advice costs the least to act on.
Safety on top of another jobSort the week by risk and keep it simpleBeyond training
A coordinator does better work with a sound program behind them. If your program is out of date, an audit or a client has flagged gaps, or your coordinator has inherited a binder nobody uses, our safety program maintenance and compliance support can help keep the program current, and an OH&S compliance audit and gap assessment shows where to start.
Many employers combine the two. The coordinator takes the online course, and we help bring the program up to date, so the procedures and forms they use match what they learned.
Group enrolment
Decide who needs the course: a new coordinator, supervisors who share safety duties, or committee members who support the program.
Buy one seat for each learner in a single order on the course page. Ten or more seats of this course in one order are 10% off at checkout.
Complete the Group Training Student Information form. We set up each account and send access instructions within 24 hours of receiving complete information.
Each learner works through the course online at their own pace and receives a certificate after successful completion.
Common questions
Clear answers about participants, online delivery, course length, certificates, price and group enrolment.
Safety coordinator training teaches the practical side of a health and safety role: how to advise supervisors and managers, find and read the rules, verify the controls for high-risk work, run inspections and training, respond to incidents and report results. It’s built for people who are new to the role or who carry safety duties alongside another job.
New safety coordinators, advisors and administrators, office and operations staff with part-time safety duties, tradespeople moving into a safety role, and health and safety committee co-chairs or representatives who support the program. Employers also use it to give a newly appointed safety person a structured start.
No. Safety Coordinator Fundamentals is offered only as a self-paced online course. Learners can take it anywhere with an internet connection, start when it suits them, and stop and return as often as they need.
The online course has 35 lessons in eight modules. We estimate about 13 to 14 hours in total: about 11 hours 20 minutes of lesson video, plus the knowledge checks and the final exam. It’s self-paced, so learners can stop and return at any time.
No. It’s awareness-level training. It isn’t a professional designation or a certification, it isn’t approved by a regulator, and it doesn’t make anyone competent or qualified for a task under any OH&S law. The final lesson explains the designations you’ll hear about most often and where to find their current requirements.
The training teaches principles that apply in every Canadian jurisdiction, uses examples from federal, provincial and territorial rules, and shows learners how to find and read their own legislation. It doesn’t replace the workplace-specific training and orientation that employers provide.
Online learners receive a Certificate of Completion and Training Record after finishing all 35 lessons, their knowledge checks and the final exam. A certificate records completion of awareness-level training, not competence in the role.
The online course is $79.99 CAD plus GST per learner, and employers can buy enrolments for several people on the course page. Group buyers complete our Group Training Student Information form after purchase so we can set up each learner’s account. A 10% group discount applies to 10 or more seats of this course in one order.
Buy the number of enrolments you need on the course page, then complete our Group Training Student Information form with each learner’s details. We set up a separate account for each learner and send course-access instructions within 24 hours of receiving complete information. Accounts can’t be shared.
Start today
Give your safety coordinator, and anyone else who carries safety duties, a practical start in the role. Enrol online now, or send us your questions about group enrolment.
