Certifications
RRHS Environment SHSM
What certifications do you need? How do you get them?
Environment SHSM students at RRHS will be able to gain their 4 compulsory and 2 elective certifications with training offered through the school SHSM program, with costs covered for training arranged by the school. Some students may have completed training elsewhere that they can apply to their SHSM.
Four Compulsory Certifications:
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Level C - includes automated external defibrillation (AED)
compass/map global positioning system (GPS)
Standard First Aid
Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS) - generic (i.e., not site-specific) instruction
Two Electives - from the list below:
advanced training in a technique (e.g., knots techniques)
advanced training in a technology
animal and plant management
anti-oppression and allyship training
approaches to healing
bear safety
Below Zero
chainsaw safety
customer service
fall protection
fire safety and fire extinguisher use
geographic information system (GIS)
habitat restoration
Hike Ontario
infection control
introduction to stream assessment protocol
ladder safety training
land and forest survey skills
leadership skills
Leave No Trace
life-saving (Bronze Cross or higher)
Ontario Hunter Education
paddling techniques
Pleasure Craft Operator
portfolio development
project management
Project Wild
radio operator
sector-specific regulations and legislations
sector-specific vehicle operation and safety
seed saving
search and rescue
soil classification and testing
species identification (e.g., fish, birds, plants, trees, small mammals)
sustainable resource management planning
tourism-basic
water/ice safety
watershed management
wilderness first aid
wilderness survival
Working at Heights