Maintaining a safe workplace means following the standards and practices set out in Nova Scotia’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations. The ability for all workers to reference the OH&S Act and Regulations is central to communicating safe acts and conditions.

WHMIS is a comprehensive system for providing health and safety information on hazardous products intended for use, handling, or storage in Canadian workplaces. This program ensures workers understand the WHMIS system, understand the hazards of the products they work with, know, and apply the safe work procedures.

The workshop takes participants through a process of self-discovery. Using colours, symbols, and descriptors, it provides a common language for understanding and appreciating the differences in our personalities. Results encourage better communication with colleagues, friends, and family, and make more informed choices in all areas of life.

BASICS.fst, is a food safety training course for food handlers. The course will allow workers to learn important information about food safety and provide them with the tools to serve safe food. Any person who works with food should study BASICS.fst – from the person that receives the products at the back door to the person who packages and serves the food to the customers. This certification meets or exceeds federal, provincial, and municipal requirements.

A healthy workplace is a productive workplace. A healthy workplace is characterized by lower absenteeism, increased productivity, reduced staff turnover, improved morale, increased work quality, and improved physical and emotional health of employees. Some of the topics we address: Defining and identifying bullying behaviors, effects on employees and workplaces, personal and formal remedies.

This workshop is designed to increase participants’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and communication. This workshop also raises awareness of the distinctive perspectives, motivations, expectations, and differences of each generation of employees. Diversity training can benefit an organization by helping to understand civil rights and violations, increasing the inclusion of different identity groups and different age groups. The workshop’s main goal is to help create a positive work environment by helping employees recognize and become tolerant of differences among co-workers.

DUTJ is based on the philosophy that persons with dementia have the same basic needs for security, shelter, nutrition, and affection as other adults, and have the same rights to have these basic needs met. The challenge for caregivers is to meet these needs, as progressive disease symptoms cause increasing dependence. This course provides a standardized education program that enables persons caring for individuals with dementia to learn about and enhance their skills in caring for these individuals.

This three-day workshop has been designed to enhance the care provided to palliative care patients and their families in all care settings in Nova Scotia. It provides education to all members of the interprofessional front-line care team and to students in the Practical Nursing and Continuing Care Assistant programs. This interactive program includes lectures, exercises, small and large group discussions, and the application of theory to real life scenarios.

GPA is an innovative dementia care curriculum based on a person-centred care approach, designed for interdisciplinary point of care staff across a variety of sectors. The education session is evidence-based, interactive, and practical. The workshop guides participants to understand responsive behaviours, to be able to respond effectively and appropriately in a workplace setting.

This workshop is designed to raise awareness of normal swallow and dysphagia, and to inform, assess and be aware of ongoing care of adults with dysphagia. Workshop participants will learn about the normal swallow mechanism, dysphagia, aspiration and associated risks and best practice guidelines and advice for managing dysphagia. Participants will also experience a practical feeding session during this workshop.

This workshop is centered on communication with people after a stroke or other similar neurological event. Following a stroke, people often have difficulty expressing themselves or understanding others. In our workshop, we will talk about other ways to communicate or encourage communication with these individuals.