OSHA Outreach – Construction

 

Prerequisites: This course has no formal pre-requisite.

Course Length: 30 hours – Course length shall vary depending on the number of delegates. Total course time include breaks.

Course Objective

  • Provide construction industry workers with relevant information associated with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance related training.

  • Emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention.

  • Provide 10 Instructional hours of compliance related training.

  • Delegates should be able to demonstrate knowledge during written examination.

Breaks:  10 minutes (approximately every hour)

Lunch:  1 hour

Course Topics

Why OSHA is important to workers

  • Worker rights under OSHA

  • Employer responsibilities under OSHA

  • The use of OSHA standards

  • How OSHA inspections are conducted

  • Helpful worker safety and health resources

  • Activity: Review Training Materials:

    • OSHA Poster

    • Employers Must Provide and Pay for PPE

    • Your Rights as a Whistleblower Fact Sheet

    • We Are OSHA, We Can Help

    • Topic 4: Workers Rights Crossword Puzzle

    • OSHA 300 and OSHA 301 forms

Module 2: Focus Four Hazards 

  • Falls

    • Identify major fall hazards

    • Describe types of fall hazards

    • Fall Protection

    • Employer Requirements

    • Video (Open Hole)

    • Video (Fall Protection Systems: Overview) 

  • Electrocution

    • Identify major electrocution hazards

    • Describe types of electrocution hazards

    • Protecting against electrocution hazards

    • Employer Requirements

    • Video (Electrical Safety: Beware the Bite!)

Lunch 

  • Caught-In or Between

    • Identify common caught-in or caught-between hazards

    • Describe types of caught-in or caught-between hazards

    • Protecting against caught-in or caught-between hazards

    • Employer Requirements

  • Struck-By

    • Identify common struck-by hazards

    • Describe types of struck-by hazards

    • Protecting against struck-by hazards

    • Employer Requirements

Module 3: Tools - Hand and Power 

Module 4: Walking Working Surfaces 

  • Scaffolds

  • Stairways and Ladders

Module 5: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 

  • Video (Personal Protective Equipment)

Module 6: Health Hazards 

  • Hearing Conservation (Noise)

    • Video (Hearing Protection Devices)

  • Hazard Communication

    • Video (GHS Safety Data Sheets)

  • Activity: Review SDS

Module 7: Heavy Equipment 

  • Cranes

    • Video (Big Blue Crane Accident)

Module 8: Excavations  

  • Trenching and Shoring

Module 9: Confined Space

Training Center Provided Material

  • Course Materials

Delegate Requirements

  • None

Reference Material / Documents

  • 29 CFR 1926

  • 29 CFR 1926 500-503

  • 29 CFR 1926.416

  • 29 CFR 1926.302

  • 29 CFR 1910.22

  • 29 CFR 1910.132-133

  • 29 CFR 1910.95

  • 29 CFR 1910.1200

  • 29 CFR 1926.251

Cost $696.00