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Workplace Ladder Safety (WLS):
Fundamentals & Safe Work Practices

This course teaches workers to decide whether a ladder is suitable, select and inspect the correct equipment, control location hazards, and safely set up and use portable ladders. The first decision is whether the task can be completed from the ground or from a safer work platform.

Scope and Completion

Scope and Completion

The regulatory examples use British Columbia workplaces under WorkSafeBC jurisdiction. The core practices can support other Canadian workplaces, but the employer must replace or supplement the jurisdiction-specific content before delivery elsewhere. This is not a federal, Alberta, or all-Canada compliance certification.

Audience: workers and supervisors using manufactured portable straight, extension, and stepladders. Fixed ladders, roof ladders, ladder-jack scaffolds, and specialized configurations are introduced for recognition only; they require additional task-specific instruction.

Estimated learner time: 75–90 minutes including scenarios and a 20-question final assessment. Timing is a course-design estimate to confirm during a pilot. Add a supervised practical demonstration at the workplace.

By the End of This Course, Participants Should Be Able to:

  • Choose ground-level work or a suitable platform when ladder work is unsuitable.
  • Read ladder grade, duty rating, capacity, and permitted-use markings.
  • Inspect a ladder and remove defective equipment from use.
  • Identify electrical, ground, traffic, construction, and weather hazards.
  • Set up straight, extension and stepladders correctly, including angle, support, securing and locking requirements.
  • Climb and work with control. Recognize when duration, fatigue, reach, or force, requires a different method.