Safety Pass | One Step Closer To Completion

On March 2, at the COR Open House and Leadership Day Conference, David Frame, OGCA, Dan Fleming, EllisDon, Sean Scott, PCL Construction and Charmaine Freake, SkillsPass, provided attendees with an update related to the Safety Pass.

The Safety Pass is aimed to provide a basic, consistent orientation training for workers entering a construction jobsite. There is a real need in the industry for this program. It provides each and every contractor the ability to communicate with their subs and workers about health and safety, while providing security that those workers have the basic knowledge required for a construction site. This does not remove the site specific orientation which is also required. Each worker who completes the 13 online modules will receive a certificate and won’t need to renew until 3 years from when they complete the program.

Best part of all – IT’S FREE.

This tool will not only reduce costs and increase productivity, it will lead to overall improvement of safe work practices on all construction projects. Without question, this is OGCA’s biggest initiative in 2018 and we continue to work with our members, partners, construction associations as well as labour across the province to promote the Safety Pass.

We are extremely excited with our new partnership with SkillsPass, who have done a tremendous job in supporting OGCA’s initiatives. Our officially launch will be on April 2, so please stay tuned.

The program is available to any Ontario contractor who is interested. For more information on how you can get your Pass, contact Lyndsy Miceli today at lyndsy@ogca.ca