Description
Information on course content for the employer purchasing for the employee:
OSHA Pro 10 CONSTRUCTION
OSHA Pro 10 CONSTRUCTION Regulation: 29 CFR 1926
Course: 10 Hours – Self paced Video Instruction Prerequisites: None
Per OSHA, “Construction Industry” standards apply only to new construction, installation, repair, renovation, painting, demolition and decorating. This workforce training guides the understanding of OSHA regulations and workplace hazard recognition with the intent to customize training as each industry’s concerns vary.
Who Should Attend: Entry level construction workers.
What They Will Learn: Information about their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to contact OSHA. Learn to identify, abate, avoid and prevent related hazards on a job site. Construction industry safety and health hazards which a worker may encounter. Per OSHA’s instruction, this training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, not OSHA standards
OSHA MANDATES SPECIFIC TRAINING AS FOLLOWS:
2 hours – Introduction to OSHA
- Workers’ rights, employer responsibilities and how to file a complaint
- Helpful worker safety and health resources
- Samples of a weekly fatality and 3 catastrophe report, material data safety sheet and the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses
30 minutes – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
30 minutes – Health Hazards in Construction – May teach noise, hazard communication, crystalline silica, lead or any other construction health hazard.
4 hours – OSHA Focus Four Hazards – The student will be able to recognize and identify hazards in construction (falls, caught-in or between, struck-by, electrocution) – Describe types of hazards – Protect himself / herself from these hazards – Recognize employer requirements to protect workers from these hazards.
- Falls (minimum 1 hour and 15 minutes)
- Electrocution (30 minutes)
- Struck-By (i.e. falling objects, trucks, cranes, …) (30 minutes)
- Caught-In or Between (i.e. trench hazards, equipment, …) (30 minutes)
- Cranes, Derricks, Hoists, Elevators, & Conveyors
- Excavations
- Materials Handling, Storage, Use and Disposal
- Scaffolds
- Stairways and Ladders
- Tools – Hand and Power
3 hour – Topics from the following are added throughout to expand on the mandatory or elective topics and or learn other construction industry hazards or policies.
- Accident Investigation and Prevention
- Aerial Platforms/ lifts
- Asbestos
- Back Safety
- BBP
- Clothing and Attire (chemical)
- Compressed Gases
- Concrete-Masonry
- Confined Space
- Cranes
- Electrical
- Emergency Action Plan
- Ergonomics
- Eye and Face Protection
- Fall Protection
- Fire Prevention
- Hand and Foot Protection
- Hazcom
- Head Protection
- Hearing
- Hot Work
- Housekeeping
- Ladders
- LOTO (lock out tag out)
- Machine Guarding
- PIT (powered industrial truck)
- PPE (personal protective equipment)
- Recordkeeping
- Respiratory Protection
- Rigging
- Safe Access (ladders and stairways)
- Scaffolds
- Signaling
- Site Specific Program
- Thermal
- Tools (hand and power)
- Trenching and Excavation
- Walking and Working Surfaces
- Welding
- Workplace Violence
Certification:
Successful completion requires 80% or better on all quizzes.
Upon successful completion, participants receive a wallet card, documentation to satisfy OSHA