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The Great Outdoors: Seasonal Groundskeeping Safety Training Program

The Great Outdoors is a video-based training program. You can offer it as a facilitated training session to your team or as a self-study program. It includes practice exercises and pre- and post-tests to help employees assess their own learning.

The Great Outdoors training package includes:

• Summer Groundskeeping video
• Winter Groundskeeping video
• Leader’s Guide
• 10 summer program participant guides (refills also available)
• 10 winter program participant guides (refills also available)
• five copies of the Outdoor Worker Health and Safety Guide (also available separately)
• a set of groundskeeping fact sheets (also available separately)

The program is split into two parts - one for summer and one for winter. The summer program focuses on summer groundskeeping equipment and working safely in the spring, summer, and autumn. The winter program reviews winter groundskeeping equipment and working safely during the winter months. Some of the topics covered in the program are safety inspections, Personal Protective Equipment, tools, equipment re-fuelling, chemical safety, WHMIS, cold and heat hazards, insect bites/stings, heavy material moving, trimming, shovelling, roles and responsibilities, and health and safety legislation.

Who should be using this training program

The program is for groundskeepers and landscapers, including golf course employees, property management people, resort personnel, cemetery workers, park and recreation employees and other people whose responsibilities include groundskeeping work. It is handy for employees, supervisors, managers, occupational health nurses, and joint health and safety committee members.

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Benefits of The Great Outdoors Training Program

• Comprehensive program so outdoor workers learn to recognize common hazards associated with their job.
• Excellent program for orientation of new and experienced groundskeeping workers
• Modular format of the program is great for fitting training sessions into busy work schedules
• Safety training taken away from this program is useful outside of the workplace

The Great Outdoors: Summer Groundskeeping Training Program
(product number 660-001-002-K-TH) is available for $79.00.

The Great Outdoors: Winter Groundskeeping Training Program
(product number 660-001-003-K-TH) is available for $79.00.

Refills of the Participant Guides are also available for $39.95 for a set of 10.

Additional copies of the Great Outdoors: Outdoor Workers Health & Safety Guide are available for $29.95 and the Great Outdoors: Safety Check for Outdoor Workers for $16.95 for a set of 17.

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