HROB 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, Total Quality Management, Numeracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3090
• Professor: Rhonda Gordon

Document Summary

Diverse variety of training programs delivered in canadian organizaions. Many factors inluence what training is delivered: organizaional values, goals, mission, strategy. Many programs have common or generic goals that are transferable. Will also determine how and to whom the training is provided. Orientaion training programs designed to introduce new employees to their job, the people they will be working with, and the organizaion. Conducted in-house by hr praciioners: health, safety, condiions of employment, organizaional history. Essenial skills training skills that are required for work, learning and life reading text. 9 essenial skills ideniied by government of canada and others: 1: document use, numeracy, wriing, oral communicaion, working with other, coninuous learning. 42% of canadians age 16-65 in the lowest levels of literacy and are semi-literate. Workplace hazardous materials informaion system (whmis: ensures workers across canada are, aware of potenial hazards of chemicals, familiar with emergency procedures for the clean-up and disposal of a spill in the workplace.