Our Health & Safety Leadership Certificate (HSLC) is designed to lead your organization through developing and implementing a Health & Safety Management System and to empower you to create a corporate safety culture that will improve the way you do business! 

Introducing the HSLC: Hospitality Stream! 

Experts in YOUR industry coming together to give you the BEST QUALITY product. 

Tourism Saskatchewan provides education and training to help strengthen Saskatchewan’s tourism and hospitality sector. In partnership with Tourism Saskatchewan, The HSLC: Hospitality Stream provides efficiencies and risk-specific training options for joint customers in the hospitality industry. 

WHAT is the HSLC program? 

HSLC is the national standard for health and safety leadership with four levels of certification. We provide the guidance you need to create a system that controls hazards and prevents injuries. Each level has been fully integrated with psychological health and safety and contains required training plus electives to build your safety management system based on your organization’s individual needs.

WHO is the HSLC: Hospitality Stream for? 

If you are a hospitality employer in the province of Saskatchewan, you have legislative obligations. The larger the employer you are, the greater the obligation. Our HSLC program guarantees you will meet these obligations and MORE! 

Take a flip through our HSLC: Hospitality Stream brochure to learn more!
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Hospitality Stream – Level 1 

Start the development of an effective Safety Management System by establishing management’s commitment to the process and taking a baseline measure of the organization’s health and safety culture. 

• Current General Manager (Senior Manager) completes the Health & Safety Leadership* training
• OH&S Committee (minimum of OH&S Committee Co-Chairpersons – entire committee recommended) completes Your Safety Committee & the Law training (or equivalent). 
• The organization completes a Safety Evaluation with the participation of a minimum of 50% of employees.

Level 1 Application Form – Hospitality Stream

Hospitality Stream – Level 2

Build the Foundation of a Safety Management System. Use conducted hazard assessments to improve proactive processes such as workplace inspections and staff training. 

Required Training:   

* Key employee(s) complete Hazard Assessment & Control training

* Key employee(s) complete Qualifications, Orientation & Training

* Key employee(s) complete Workplace Inspections training

Any One Elective: 

* Key employee(s) complete Psychological Health & Safety for Hospitality Level 1 – Frontline Workers

* Key employee(s) complete Harassment Prevention in Hospitality: Beyond the Policy

*Risk-based training of a comparable level 

Other Requirements:

Serve It Right Training completed for all required staff 

* The property’s formal hazard assessments have been completed within the last year or reviewed within the last year

The following documents are completed and in place at the property:

           *Workplace Inspections Policy

           * Property-specific Inspection form(s) and report template(s)

           * Property-specific Training and Orientation Policy

           * Job-specific Training Checklist(s)

Level 2 Application Form – Hospitality Stream

Hospitality Stream – Level 3

Enable your Safety Management System to react swiftly. Take the training needed to develop the systems required to control the workplace hazards identified and maintain a health and safety management system for the organization.

Required Training:   

*Key employee(s) complete Incident Reporting & Investigation training

*Key employee(s) complete Claims Management training 

Any Two Electives: 

* Key employee(s) complete Psychological Health & Safety for Hospitality Level 2 – Supervisors/Managers

* Key employee(s) complete Emergency Response Planning training

* Key employee(s) complete Needles and Infectious Bodily Fluids training

* Key employee(s) complete Service First for the Taxi Industry (Tourism Saskatchewan)

* Key employee(s) complete Risk Management for your Event (Tourism Saskatchewan)

Other Requirements: 

*  Job-specific hazard training provided to 80% of all staff.  Training must cover job-specific hazards as identified in the Formal Hazard Assessments completed in Level 2

The organization completed the required policies and procedures:

*Incident Reporting and Investigation Policy(s)

*Incident Reporting/ Incident Investigation Procedures

*Incident Report form

*Incident Investigation form

*Modified Work (or Return to Work) Program

Level 3 Application Form – Hospitality Stream

Hospitality Stream – Level 4

Take the final step and conduct a Health & Safety Audit. To bring your organization up to the gold standard! 

• The organization successfully completes a Health & Safety Scored Audit.

Level 4 Application Form – Hospitality Stream

To retain all levels of HSLC, the following must be maintained: 

*The current General Manager (Senior Manager) must have completed the Health & Safety Leadership training at all levels of certification.  The intent of this seminar is to expose senior management to training that will explain the importance of health and safety to their business.  It is designed to ensure senior managers understand their responsibilities for the safety of their workers, the repercussions of not meeting these responsibilities, and the basic systems they must implement.

** For all Level 2 & Level 3 training programs, key staff are required to attend.  This includes those who will be overseeing and/or carrying out the relevant function.  For example, for Workplace Inspections, those responsible for Inspections must complete the training.

*The organization has completed a Safety Evaluation within the past 3 years.

** Approved Mental Health Training