Your essential guide to workplace safety: Understand rights, manage risks effectively, and build a culture of health and safety.
This program is designed to provide you with fundamental knowledge vital for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
Understanding workplace health and safety is not just a legal requirement; it's crucial for preventing injuries, illnesses, and fostering a positive work culture for everyone.
Through this course, we will explore key topics essential for every worker:
By completing this course, you will gain practical knowledge to identify and mitigate risks, understand your role in safety culture, and contribute proactively to a safer workplace for yourself and your colleagues.
Trainer | Mentor | Performance Driven | Hands-On Trouble Shooter
John Duplessis, B.Sc., CRSP, is a recognized leader in Occupational Health & Safety (OH\&S), dedicated to helping organizations build safer, more resilient workplaces. With over 30 years of experience in high-risk sectors—including oil & gas, construction, green energy, and manufacturing—John has built a reputation for translating complex safety legislation and standards into clear, practical strategies that drive measurable results. An internationally respected trainer and consultant, John has delivered programs across Canada and abroad on topics such as ISO 45001 implementation, incident investigation, safety leadership, and building strong safety cultures. His approach emphasizes leadership at every level—engaging executives, supervisors, and front-line workers alike—to foster systems that balance top-down accountability with bottom-up input. John’s career includes senior safety roles in major energy and construction firms, as well as decades of consulting, auditing, and mentoring.
This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.
If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.
