A core interactive course on heat and cold stress: 11 scenarios recognizing early heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and cold injury in real conditions, validating 7 competencies. It gets crews acting at the warning stage instead of the emergency.
Manitoba workers face both extremes — hot, humid summers and some of the coldest winters in the country — and both can make you ill or kill you. This course teaches every worker to recognize the signs of heat illness (heat rash and cramps, heat exhaustion, and life-threatening heat stroke) and cold injury (cold stress, frostnip and frostbite, and life-threatening hypothermia) and how they progress; to apply the controls that prevent them (for heat: water, rest, shade, acclimatization, and work/rest cycles; for cold: layering, staying dry, warm-up breaks, wind protection, and protecting the extremities); to respond correctly to a thermal emergency, including when to call EMS; to use the hierarchy of controls and environmental monitoring (the Humidex for heat and the Wind Chill index for cold); and to use the buddy system and self-monitoring. The online theory establishes the Trained state; the employer records the site confirmations (heat response, cold dress, site controls, and a risk review) as the Observed state, signed off as Competent.
Equip every worker exposed to heat or cold to recognize the early signs, apply the controls (water-rest-shade and acclimatization for heat; layering, staying dry, and warm-up breaks for cold), respond to an emergency, and monitor the conditions — so heat illness and cold injury are prevented.
Workers exposed to Manitoba's temperature extremes — outdoor crews, foundries, cold storage, and unheated worksites.
Passing the final test issues a QR-verified certificate, valid for one year. Review training at least annually and seasonally (before summer heat and before winter cold), and whenever work, conditions, or PPE change. No exact mandatory theory-hour minimum is set in Manitoba law — industry/provider standard applies.
About 1 hour 10 minutes online, over 5 modules, at your own pace. It ends with a final test that needs 80% to pass.
One year from the day you pass. Review training at least annually and seasonally (before summer heat and before winter cold), and whenever work, conditions, or PPE change.
Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act (C.C.S.M. c. W210); Manitoba WSH Regulation MR 217/2006; ACGIH — Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for Heat Stress and Strain (ACGIH publishes cold stress separately); and 2 more listed on this page.
Workers exposed to Manitoba's temperature extremes — outdoor crews, foundries, cold storage, and unheated worksites.