30-Hour OSHA Construction Training: TR - 004

Course Length: 30 Hours

This is a thirty hour program intended to provide a comprehensive overview of OSHA standards applicable to the construction industry. This program provides a full overview of OSHA standards for construction. The program includes core elements and optional topics allowing you to customize the message to your specific training needs.

Required Course Topics:

• Introduction to the OSHA Act -2 hours
  • The OSH Act, General Duty Clause, employer and employee rights and responsibilities, whistleblower rights, basic recordkeeping
  • Inspections, citations and penalties
  • General safety and health provisions, competent person, Subpart C
  • Value of safety and health
  • OSHA website and available resources
  • OSHA 800 number
• OSHA focus on four hazards – 5 hours
  
  • Fall protection, Subpart M
  • Electrical, Subpart K
  • Struck by (e.g., falling objects, trucks and cranes)
  • Caught in/between (e.g., trench hazards, equipment)
• Personal protective and lifesaving equipment – 2 hours
  
  • Subpart E
• Health hazards in construction – 2 hours
  
  • Hazcom and silica
• Stairways and ladders – 1 hour
  
  • Subpart X

Elective/Selected Topics:

• STD 3-1.1 “Clarification of citation policy regarding 29 CFR 1926.20, 29 CFR 1926.21 and related general safety and health provisions”; safety programs
• Fire protection and prevention
  • Subpart F
• Material handling, storage use and disposal
  • Subpart H
• Tools, hand and powered
  • Subpart I
• Scaffolds
  
  • Subpart L
• Cranes, derricks, hoists, elevators and conveyors
  • Subpart N
• Motor vehicles, mechanized equipment and marine operations; Roll over protective structures and overhead protection; and Signs, signals and barricades
  • Subpart O
  • Subpart W
  • Subpart G
• Excavations
  • Subpart P
• Concrete and masonry construction
  • Subpart Q
• Steel erection
  • Subpart R
• Confined space entry
• Powered industrial vehicles
• Ergonomics

Course Length: 10 hours
Prerequisites: None
Note: If participants have participated in an OSHA 10 hour construction class in the last six months, they may upgrade their training by only participating in the missing elements.