WORKPLACENL ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2015
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Highlights & Accomplishments
Focusing on the needs of both injured workers and employers WorkplaceNL continues to focus on the needs of both injured workers and employers, launching innovative programs to engage people at all levels to create safer workplaces.
Workers’ training certificates are going online
Workers’ safety certificates are going online In October 2015, WorkplaceNL launched the first-of-its kind, online, multi-stakeholder Certification Training Registry (CTR) in Newfoundland and Labrador. Now, workers, employers and OHS Officers can access upto-date training records through a smartphone or any web-enabled device to ensure that a workplace is compliant with OHS requirements.
Shorter, easier to remember name The organization launched the new name WorkplaceNL in September 2015. Shorter and easier to remember, the name WorkplaceNL encompasses all parties involved in the employer-funded system that promotes safe and healthy workplaces, provides return to work programs and compensates injured workers. Full implementation is expected to take at least 12 months, using a phased-in, cost-conscious approach. WorkplaceNL is focusing first on items that our clients use the most, and aims to exhaust our current inventories of materials before printing new versions.
Within three years, there will be no need for paper certificates. As the estimated 170,000 existing paper certificates expire, workers successfully completing training will receive an electronic training record. Anyone can search the CTR’s online marketplace for a listing of WorkplaceNL-approved trainers for mandatory safety training for the following certification training standards: OHS Committee, confined space entry, fall protection, traffic control person, power line hazards, mine rescue and diving. First aid will be available in the CTR in 2016.
