Carpenter
ITA learning competencies
Below are the competencies and learning tasks for health and safety training in the Carpentry program. Make your selection to see the WorkSafeBC resources and tools available for each competency.
Use OHS regulations/standards:
- Young and new workers
- Place of employment
- Harmful substances and hazardous materials
- Personal protective equipment
- Powder-actuated tools
- Electrical systems
- Ladders
- Scaffolds, swing stages, and misc. stages
- Excavation
- Demolition
- Hoisting and rigging
Describe general safety rules:
Describe safety rules for conduct; responsibilities; costs affecting employers:
- Personal safety rules
- Responsibilities affecting you and others
- Assessment and penalty costs affecting employers
Use fall protection:
- Fall protection systems
- Guardrails
- Fall restraint systems
- Fall arrest
- Rope grabs and shock-limiting devices
- Safety harnesses, lanyards, and lifelines
- Safety equipment inspection
- Safety monitor
Select safety gear and clothing:
- Personal apparel
- Leg and foot protection
- Hand protection
- Headgear
- Eye protection
- Ear protection
- Lung protection
- Inspection/adjustment/maintenance/storage of gear
Use precautions for the weather:
Lift and move objects safely:
Apply WHMIS:
- WHMIS - Legislation
- WHMIS - Symbols and labels
- WHMIS - MSDSs
- WHMIS - Education and certification
- WHMIS - Employer responsibilities
- WHMIS - Supplier responsibilities
Describe health hazards of building materials:
Describe fire safety procedures:
Use safety committees:
Conduct site inspections:
Describe excavation safety requirements:
Health & safety topics
Here are the relevant WorkSafeBC health and safety regulations, resources, and tools that align to the learning competencies for Carpenters. This information directly supports the Industry Training Authority's (ITA's) Carpentry Program Outline.
- Asbestos
- Assessment and penalty costs affecting employers
- Blasting signals
- Chemical and biological agents
- Confined spaces
- Dehydration
- Demolition
- Dust
- Ear protection
- Electrical systems
- Ergonomics
- Excavation process and precautions
- Eye protection
- Fall arrest systems
- Fall protection systems
- Fall restraint systems
- Fire safety procedures
- Flammable, explosion, and electrical hazards
- Grounding
- Guardrails
- Guards & barriers
- Hand protection
- Harmful substances and hazardous materials
- Headgear
- Hoisting and rigging
- Housekeeping
- Hyperthermia and Hypothermia
- Inspection of tools
- Inspection/adjustment/maintenance/storage of gear
- Ladders
- Lead
- Leg and foot protection
- Lifting & moving objects
- Lockout procedures
- Lung protection
- Operating hazardous equipment
- Personal apparel
- Personal protective equipment
- Personal safety rules
- Place of employment
- Powder-actuated tools
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Rope grabs and shock-limiting devices
- Safety committees, convening of
- Safety equipment inspection
- Safety harnesses, lanyards, and lifelines
- Safety monitor (Fall protection)
- Scaffolds, swing stages, and miscellaneous stages
- Shoring
- Silica
- Site inspections, recommendations & remedies
- Slippery surfaces
- Sunstroke
- Weather-related hazards
- WHMIS legislation
- WHMIS symbols & labels
- WHMIS MSDSs
- WHMIS education & training
- WHMIS employer responsibilities
- WHMIS supplier responsibilities
- Young & new workers
Resources
The Hearing Video
Produced in the style of a TV science show, The Hearing Video uses vintage films, computer animation, and noise-defying stunts to demonstrate how your ears work and the effects of hazardous noise...
Ladder Safety: Introduction (1 of 5)
This five-part video highlights the important safety procedures associated with ladder use on construction sites. It uses classic black and white comedic film footage and computer graphic simulations...
You're a Pro: Falls from Ladders
This video demonstrates the importance of providing and following proper instruction on ladder use.
This video is part of a series called You're a Pro: Falls from Elevation. The other...