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Trenching and Excavation Basics
$45.00
WARNING: You will have 14 days from the purchase date to complete this training or you will need to start over and repurchase your training.
Description
Trenching and Excavation Basics
Regulation 29 CFR 1926.650, 651, 652
Course:   Self-Paced Video Instruction                 Prerequisites:
Trenching and excavation work presents serious risks to all workers involved. Excavating is recognized as one of the most hazardous construction activities. Excavation cave-ins cause serious and often fatal injuries to workers in the United States, a fatality rate 112% higher than for general construction. Trench collapses cause dozens of fatalities and hundreds of injuries each year.  Additional excavation hazards include falls, falling loads, hazardous atmospheres, and incidents involving mobile equipment.
OSHA defines an excavation as any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in the earth’s surface formed by earth removal. A trench is defined as a narrow underground excavation that is deeper than it is wide, and is no wider than 15 feet. Trenches 5 feet deep or greater require a protective system unless the excavation is made entirely in stable rock. Trenches 20 feet deep or greater require that the protective system be designed by a registered professional engineer or be based on tabulated data prepared and / or approved by a registered professional engineer.
Who Should Take This Course:
- All employers, supervisors, operators and workers whose job duties require them to be in or around trenching and excavation work.
- Anyone who works in or around trenches, holes, or below-ground areas
This course details the general and specific requirements for excavating and trenching in accordance with OSHA construction regulations, including:
- Terms and Definitions
- Engineering Controls
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Soil Terminology, Classification and Testing
- Excavation support systems
- Understanding what OSHA’s Standard Requires
- Safe Trenching and Excavation Work Practices
- Types Of Trench Protection Systems
- General Regulations and Requirements For Trenching and Excavation Work
United Safety Solutions Course Covers:
Our professionals will break down the regulations into terms you can understand. You’ll learn practices and procedures that will keep you in compliance and protect yourself and employees. You will:
- Empower your employees to identify – and avoid – potential dangers
- Assess situations where a cave in could occur and how a cave-in may occur
- Correct working hazards that exist
- Reduce injuries throughout your worksite
- Describe differences between excavations and trenches
- Learn the general requirements and Competent Person responsibilities
- How soil is tested
- Getting in and out of an excavation
- Materials Handling and Mechanized Equipment
- Relevant legislation
- Environmental protection and assessment
- Spoil-pile placements
- Safe Access / Egress
- Helpful links for additional information on trenching and excavation regulations
It is our recommendation that workers be retrained on Trenching and Excavation Safety at least every three years.
Certification:
Successful completion requires 80% or better on all quizzes.
Upon successful completion, participants receive a wallet card, documentation to satisfy OSHA.