Course Content:

• Environment Canada’s Code of Practice, Salt Management Plans, and MOE’s Local Source Water Protection
• Minimum Maintenance Standards/Level of Service
• Verifying routes, preparing materials, personnel, facilities, and equipment
• Sources of weather information, storm patterns in Ontario
• Interpreting RWIS data to select the best winter control strategies
• Traditional and new snow & ice control materials, anti-icing vs. de-icing, best practices for application of solids and liquids, and snow disposal
• Hours of Service, materials handling, safety issues
• What records supervisors must keep and why