Cannabis & the Workplace: Impairment Awareness for Employers

This comprehensive course is intended to provide employers, managers, supervisors, and any other professionals directly impacted with a basis for enhanced awareness and response to impairment in general, and with a particular focus on impairment from cannabis use. This course meets the requirements set out in the COAA Canadian Model for Providing a Safe Workplace.

After the completion of this course, you will:

• Understand what impairment is, and impairment awareness language
• Be shown details on cannabis, alcohol, and other drugs, and how they affect users
• Be explained best practices for maintaining high impairment awareness on worksites
• Review information on impaired driving
• Understand how to react to situations of impairment
• Understand the process for documenting reasonable cause and triggering testing
• Know the importance of confidentiality and record-keeping
• Know when and why to test for impairment
• Get some post-incident testing tips and timelines
• Know when and why to use drug testing for reasonable cause
• Understand how testing can happen
• Know who is responsible for testing
• Be reminded of the importance of policy updates and explained which updates should be prioritized

Approximately 45 mins

Testing conducted throughout this online Managing Cannabis and the Workplace: Impairment Awareness for Employers course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.