Workplace Safety & Prevention Services: Free Resources for New Canadians and Temporary Foreign Workers

The people in your workforce have a wide range of backgrounds. Your employees may include new Canadians, temporary foreign workers, or others with English as their second language. All workers have a right to learn how to keep safe on the job, and information needs to be available in languages they understand. 

Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS), in collaboration with the Advisory Committees and other stakeholders, have developed a number of FREE resources for new Canadians and temporary foreign workers in various languages with the aim to reduce the risk of harm to new workers through education and awareness by improving upon the mechanisms for communication and training, aligning with the health and safety culture in Ontario. QR code posters are also available (at the links below) for employers to print and post, empowering employees to scan the code and directly access resources on their phones. Check out the links below. Share these resources within your organization and your networks to help your workers better understand how to protect themselves on the job and make your workplace safer.  

We hope that this information is of assistance and encourage you to share it with your stakeholders and professional networks so that businesses across the province can become safer.