Want to create a safe environment for yourself and your clients and protect your business? Accidents happen, but with the right knowledge and preparation, you can minimize risks and ensure a safe working environment. This course is your essential guide to identifying and addressing potential hazards in the organizing profession. Learn to recognize both visible and invisible dangers, establish personal safety boundaries, and implement crucial safety practices. From handling emergencies to using proper body mechanics, you’ll gain the confidence to protect yourself, your clients, and your business.
This Course Will Help You
- Recognize visible dangers and know when to call in other experts
- Recognize subtle and invisible dangers
- Help clients identify and correct dangers in their homes and offices
- Plan safe and appropriate responses to a variety of dangers and emergencies
- Use a safety checklist to identify potential safety concerns
- Identify health and safety tools and assemble a safety kit
- Establish business practices around personal and environmental health and safety issues
Why Choose This Course?
This course is an investment in the longevity and success of your organizing business. By prioritizing safety, you’ll not only prevent potential harm but also build trust with your clients and enhance your professional reputation. You’ll learn to anticipate risks, implement proactive safety measures, and create a secure environment for everyone involved.
Courses with this icon are one of the ten required courses to be eligible to take the Trained Professional Organizer Program exam. This course is also one of the three courses required to be listed on the Professional Organizers in Canada Directory.
What our students are saying
“Through the course, I learned how to reduce these risks, such as using the correct tools, ensuring safe communication with clients, and handling emergencies.”
“This course gave me a more comprehensive understanding of my responsibilities as an organizer and increased my focus on self-protection and professional safety.”
Course Presenter: Georgina Forrest, CPO®
Georgina has been a member of Professional Organizers in Canada since 2005 and has been organizing since 2001. She is a Certified Professional Organizer, a Productivity Coach where she specializes in working with small office/home office and corporate clients, and a Certified Photo Manager. In addition to her organizing and coaching services, she also loves to facilitate workshops on a variety of organizing and time management related topics.
Course Format
This course is delivered online and includes a video and manual. The video is approximately one hour, which you can pause, rewind and re-watch to fully immerse yourself in the materials. The video includes 3 code words which must be submitted through the course page. Upon successful submission of your code words, your record of learning will reflect successful completion of the course. The comprehensive manual includes activities, additional materials and resources.
Course Investment & Registration
Prices do not include GST/HST.
