Representatives will be joining us from The Ministry of Labour, OPHEA, the legal profession and administrative positions in your school boards. The following is a sample of the types of workshops that may be of interest to you. 

Avoid the Worst; Put Safety First! - Certification in the Workplace
Do you deliver a SHSM as part of the Tech program in your school? Do you offer certifications that are health and safety based? This presentation will touch on issues important to technology teachers – especially those involved in the Specialist High Skills Major. Come and find out about what you should know about certification –what you can provide and what the workplace must provide. Make sure your students know that they are not exempt from workplace training!
Tish Amico - Educational Outreach Consultant, Ministry of Labour

We Can All Do Workplace Assessment
This will focus on some of your hot topics in placing students: working alone, establishing supervision, establishing an agreement for providing safety training, placement assessment in different types of businesses, including family businesses, injury reporting procedures, handling safety concerns and more. In this session, strategies for addressing these scenarios and other issues co-op teachers face when doing placement assessment will be discussed. Bring your concerns and questions and let’s have some interesting and interactive professional dialogue
Tish Amico - Educational Outreach Consultant, Ministry of Labour

Legal Primer: Understanding Liability
Liability conjures up many unpleasant thoughts; add minors to the mix and many would simply prefer to avoid the situation. This session is designed to help participants understand what liability is, and to what degree they are liable in an outside the classroom program. Advice on how to limit liability will also be discussed
Murray Kyte - Lawyer/Program Chair, Algonquin College

The Education Act – Standard of Care & Duty of Care
This session will explore these terms and more (in loco parentis, reasonable and prudent parent) and how they relate to the Ontario Education Act. For those of you who are educators that take your students into the backcountry this session will look at risk management through a different lens – the Education Act. Included in the session will be the opportunity to review some legal cases in an interactive way to explore how Canadian courts view these terms when tested in the legal system.
Linda Leckie – Director of Outdoor Education, The Bishop Strachan School