Understand the Value – Why This Course Matters
Supervisors are the critical link between planning and doing. They translate procedures into action and ensure that risk controls are actually implemented on the ground. Yet many supervisors step into this responsibility without formal training in safety leadership or hazard control.
This course equips supervisors and front-line leaders with essential health and safety knowledge and tools to manage operations safely. Through highly practical content, participants learn how to plan and monitor hazardous work, lead safety conversations, and improve compliance and safety culture in their teams.
This course is ideal for:
Operations Supervisors
Line Managers
Front-line Leaders
Anyone responsible for overseeing task execution and workforce safety
Day 1: Risk Awareness and Hazard Control
Topic 1: The Supervisor’s Role in HSE
Supervisor responsibilities in health and safety
Challenges in implementing safety requirements
Tools supervisors can use to support HSE
Topic 2: Hazards, Risks, and Control Measures
Hazard identification and unsafe conditions
5 steps of risk assessment
Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
Dynamic risk assessment techniques
Planning hazardous work and simultaneous operations using permits-to-work
Practical Tasks:
Team risk assessments
Filling out a JSA form
Permit-to-work completion
Hazard hunt team activity
Day 2: Safety Culture, Leadership, and Safe Behaviour
Topic 3: Improving Safety Culture
Understanding safety culture and its impact
Supervisor tools for promoting safety culture
Leading safe behaviour and building HSE awareness
Conducting effective briefings and issuing safe job instructions
Topic 4: Human Factors and Safety Behaviour
Risk perception, motivation, and behaviour change
Leadership safety audits: techniques and common mistakes
Practical Tasks:
Conducting a pre-job briefing
Performing a behavioural safety audit
Day 3: Monitoring, Investigation, and Contractor Safety
Topic 5: In-Process Monitoring
Planning and conducting inspections
Safety intervention techniques
Stop work policies and suspension procedures
Topic 6: Incident Investigation and Contractor HSE Management
Principles of incident investigation and root cause analysis
Case study review and practical exercise
Contractor access, monitoring, and motivation strategies
Practical Tasks:
Case-based investigation
Inspection simulations
Contractor safety planning
Conduct job safety analyses and dynamic risk assessments
Supervise hazardous tasks using permits-to-work
Lead safety briefings and promote safe behaviour
Monitor in-process work and intervene when necessary
Investigate incidents and contribute to contractor HSE management
Strengthen safety culture through day-to-day leadership
In-Company Training (for corporate groups of 8–20 participants):
Our expert-led, 3-day course is delivered exclusively for your team, at your location or other agreed venue or live via Zoom (the course may be reduced to 1–2 days based on selected modules).
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Canadian Safety Institute.
Yes. The course is hands-on and designed for real supervisors in real working conditions.
Small-group activities
Live discussions and trainer feedback
Business case analysis
Mini-lectures and videos
Risk simulations and briefings
Self-assessment and leadership practice
Supervisors leave ready to apply what they’ve learned on the job immediately.