Online Training
Lawnmower Safety
Lawnmowers are helpful machines—their motorized, blade-spinning design and ability to trim grass efficiently allow you to maintain lawns, parks, and outdoor spaces. While they can make tasks easier, as with any piece of equipment, there are unique hazards that require your attention and respect. In this course, we’ll examine the essential safety procedures and best practices that you must know to ensure a safe working environment while operating and caring for string trimmers, and walk-behind and ride-on mowers.
What You'll Learn
- An overview of string trimmers, ride-on, and walk-behind mowers
- Components and control measures for string trimmers, ride-on, and walk-behind mowers
- Personal protective equipment while mowing
- Loading, unloading, and mower transportation
- Safe operation best practices
- Inspection procedures
- Mower stability, including
- Strategies for working on slopes and around bodies of water
- Best practices for working outdoors, including
- Heat
- Cold
- Smoke
- Other weather conditions
- Emergency procedures and response
About This Course
In general, you can use lawnmowers to cut grass efficiently in a variety of outdoor settings. There’s a wide range of tasks that fall under this umbrella—you can use mowers for residential yard work, commercial landscaping, park maintenance, and more. However, it’s important to understand the machine’s limitations and safety features.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
- Identify the benefits and drawbacks of ride-on mowers, walk-behind mowers, and string trimmers
- Name the key components of a lawnmower
- Perform daily inspection and safety checks
- Summarize the basic principles of lawnmower operation
- Understand safe operating procedures in various settings
- Recognize and mitigate potential hazards associated with lawnmower use
- Name appropriate steps to take in an emergency
Course Requirements
- Estimated Duration
- This course is approximately 75 minutes long.
- Pass Requirements
- The pass mark for this course is 80%. Learners can make 3 attempts to pass the course before it must be reassigned.
- Certificate
- Upon completion of this course, learners will receive a certificate of completion.
- Registration Fee
- $79.99 CAD
Frequently asked questions about online training
Common questions about enrollment, completion, and certificates.
What are the benefits of online training?
Benefits of online training include:
- Cost effective: no hotels, travel, meals and less time away from the workplace.
- Convenient: courses can be completed wherever you have access to a computer and internet access.
- Self paced: students can pause at any time and continue where they left off.
- Consistent: video/slide format ensures the course is the same every time.
- Easy verification: online access to training and certification records for students and managers.
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What is BIS Safety Software Inc.?
BIS Safety Software Inc. is a network of more than 200 leading safety training companies from across North America who collectively share and provide companies and individuals with access to a wide variety of safety training courses through one centralized online application.
Since 2010, the collaborative partnership between these training companies has not only enabled the best-of-the-best in online safety training to be brought together in one location but it is also helping to improve industry safety performance through the provision of convenient, cost-effective training.
Our partners BIS Safety Software Inc. are, in our opinion, the best providers of online safety training courses in Canada. We’ve been working with BIS since March 2012 and we are completely happy with the service they provide.
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Is there a time limit for online courses?
Everyone learns at a different pace and everyone retains information differently. When you take a course online, you go at your own speed. If you get to a certain point and don’t fully understand the material, you can pause and go back for a review. On the other hand, if everything makes perfect sense, you can go straight through the entire course right to the test.
How does virtual proctoring/testing with webcam monitoring work?
When you start your test, you will be monitored via your webcam. If you disappear from the screen or appear to be consulting another device or other material, you will be disqualified from the course. The company responsible for virtual proctoring is Integrity Advocate. You can find out more about how their system works here.
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Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd has made every effort to ensure the quality and standards of educational products sold and distributed by Safe+Sound via this website. Once purchased all online courses and products are non-refundable and all sales are final. Please review all cancellation policy details prior to purchase.
Please ensure your specific jurisdiction and workplace accepts online safety training and allows online training for your use.
Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd is not involved in course development and all online courses are sold and delivered in partnership with BIS Safety Software and approved and/or endorsed agencies.