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Substance Use in the Trades: Supporting Your Well-being New, Free

This course discusses some strategies you can use to improve overall well-being.

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Language:
English/French
Duration:
15 minutes
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Description

Substance use can be an issue when it negatively affects your life, or you feel it is becoming more challenging to manage your use. Your personal life, work life, mental health, physical health and substance use are all interconnected.

This course discusses what you can do if you are concerned about your own substance use or someone else’s. It also provides strategies to improve your overall well-being, including preventing injuries, managing pain, dealing with stress, and sleeping well.

This free course is part of a three-course series on substance use in the trades created in partnership with the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum. You may also be interested in Substance Use in the Trades: Being Aware and Substance Use in the Trades: Harm Reduction.

Topics include:

  • The spectrum of substance use
  • Understanding when you might need help
  • Managing your own well-being

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

  • Recall what to do if you are concerned about substance use
  • Recall strategies to improve your overall well-being

Average time to complete this course is approximately 15 minutes.

Target Audience

This course is recommended for workers in the trades and is also suitable for workers in organizations of all sizes, across all industries and occupations.

Prerequisite

None

Certificate of Completion

This course is offered free of charge to promote awareness of the topic only, and a certificate of completion is not provided.

System Requirements

This course is delivered online. View the minimum system requirements to take this course.

Review Process

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum Partnership

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum promotes apprenticeship training with the goal of cultivating a highly skilled, diverse, productive and mobile skilled trades labour force.

VuBiz Partnership

We partnered with Vubiz - an international leader in e-learning development - to create this e-course. Vubiz offers other related e-learning courses that may also be of interest to you. Read about them in the Vubiz Catalogue of e-learning courses.

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The CCOHS Difference

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.

Certificate of Completion

Earn a certificate upon successful course completion (except free awareness courses).

Created in Partnership

We partner with Vubiz, an international leader in elearning development, to deliver our courses.