Body Protection (PPE): activities and topics relating to personal protective equipment (PPE) designated to protect an individual’s eyes, head, feet, hands, body, etc.

Confined Space: items relating to confined spaces, such as respiratory dangers, selection of equipment, quality of breathing air, emergency escape equipment, personnel training, personnel roles for confined space entry and occupation, etc.

Fire & Explosions Hazards: work environments with fire and explosion hazards, such as flammable and explosive atmospheres, worksite classification, hazard identification, identifying sources of ignition, flame-resistant clothing and industry-specific personal protective equipment requirements, hot work, etc.

Ground Disturbance: activities relating to excavating, shoring, utility locating and management, in addition to the classification of soil type, soil stabilization, cutting back walls, etc.

Hazardous Energy: activities requiring the lockout and isolation of hazardous energy whether that be by an individual lockout or through other means of control, identifying the types of and appropriate control of hazardous energy, energy isolation, securing devices and procedures, use of warning tags, verifying isolation, securing remotely controlled systems, etc.

Hazardous Substances: exposure potential of specific work environments and activities, the ability to identify sources of exposure, decontamination, prohibited activities, identification requirements, Safety Data Sheet (SDS), storage, handling and transportation, etc.

​Legislative Expectations: regulator and judicial expectations/interpretations of specific to legislated requirements and the level of due diligence previously accepted. Include specific regulatory requirements applicable to all employers and the competency necessary to make decisions as to the adequacy of an organization's chosen mitigation efforts.

​Lifting and Hoisting: Competency addresses work environments with activities requiring the use of cranes, boom trucks, mobile cranes, hoists and lifting devices, including topics such as rigging requirements, rated load capacity, operator requirements, lift calculations, counterweights, outriggers, log book requirements, warning devices, load blocks, limit devices, operation of equipment, damage prevention, wind and temperature limitations, structural testing and examination, etc.

Physical Hazards: understanding of general requirements for safeguarding, identifying hazardous mechanical motions and actions, methods of safeguarding, safeguard tampering, working in conditions where no safeguarding is present, dropped objects, pinch points, vibration exposure, etc.

​Respiratory Protection: work environments with activities requiring supplied air respiratory

equipment and includes hazard identification, equipment approval, equipment selection, storage, use and maintenance of equipment, quality of breathing air, effective facial seal, etc.

Working at Heights/Dropped Objects: work environments with activities requiring fall protection, such as understanding and determining fall distance, temporary or permanent work areas, fall hazard identification and fall protection planning, dropped object risks/mitigation, worksite ground surfaces, fall protection and fall arrest equipment and anchor requirements including calculating maximum arresting force, guardrails, fall rescue, understanding of applicable governing standards for fall protection equipment, etc.

Aviation/Airport: A work environment that can consist of runways for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft.

Construction Site: A work environment that can range from the building of roads, highways, dams, water and sewer lines, and/or bridges to oil refineries, petrochemical plants and power plants, institutional buildings etc. This category also includes maintenance and renovation activities for the same structures.

Drill Pad/Site: A work environment that may involve searching for, the recovery and/or production of crude oil and natural gas. Includes the searching for potential underground oil and gas fields, drilling of exploratory wells, and subsequently operating the wells that bring the crude oil/or raw natural gas to the surface.

Manufacturing Facility: A work environment that may involve manufacturing/servicing/repair with the use of machines, tools and labor to; produce goods for sale, to repair or refurbish previously used items.

Marine/Harbour: A work environment that involves the loading and unloading vessels and dropping off and picking up product and/or passengers as well as on water or water adjacent activities including dredging, barging, etc.

Mine (Open Pit): A work environment that may involve the extraction of rock, minerals, metals and/or bituminous sands from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrows.

Office: A work environment that may involve personnel doing collaborative, consultive and/or administrative tasks, providing services that may involve the use of computers, telephones, printers, and/or copiers, in an office-based setting.

Pipeline: A work environment that may involve the construction, transportation and distribution of product through large diameter pipelines across long distances between various regions. Such products include but are not limited to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, diesel oil, other fuel oils.

Refinery/Upgrader: A work environment that may involve the refining and/or production of crude oil, natural gas and products derived from crude oil. Such products include liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, jet fuel, diesel oil, other fuel oils, asphalt and petroleum coke.

Remote/Rural Locations: A work environment that involve the execution of work in undeveloped, low population, minimal infrastructure location that commonly include largely undisturbed natural environments.

Roads/Highways: A work environment that may involve operations relating to the maintenance of, or movement on, roadways for commercial and non-commercial vehicles.

Utility Distribution Site: A work environment that may involve the installation, transmission, distribution, repair and/or maintenance of utilities provided to factories, commercial establishments and/or private dwellings.

Utility Generation Site: A work environment that may involve the generation, transmission, distribution, repair and/or maintenance of such utilities as electricity, natural gas, water, sewage, and telecommunications.

Warehouse: A work environment that may involve the movement, staging and storage of goods and materials within warehouses or lay-down yards (does not including off-site transport).