OSHA 30 Hour Construction Training Courses

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Understand the importance of OSHA’s role in worker safety and health in the workplace.
• Understand the role of management in creating a safe work environment through safety and health programs, worksite hazard analysis, and controls regarding hazardous materials and situations.
• Determine struck-by, caught-in, or caught-between hazards that can occur in construction-related injuries.
• Understand basic electrical safety principles, regulations and safe work practices.
• Understand excavation dangers and how to work safely around trenches and excavation environments.
• Understand how to prevent falls through fall protection and identify fall hazards.
• Identify the hazards when working around cranes, and learn about accident avoidance and crane safety requirements in the construction industry.
• Understand hazards and injuries related to the use of ladders, and learn about ladder inspection and maintenance.
• Learn about the proper use, maintenance, storage, and disposal of materials, including cranes, rigging, and mechanical equipment.
• Identify hazards and requirements for confined spaces as listed under the Confined Spaces in Construction Standard, and understand the responsibilities of confined space workers.
• Select proper PPE based on the workplace and hazard types.
• Understand types of scaffolds and their proper use.
• Identify the hearing protection needs for your workplace based on noise levels, types of noise, a noise-monitoring program, and OSHA rules for hearing protection.
• Identify the respiratory protection needs for your workplace based on the types of contaminants, understand respirator functions, and identify OSHA rules for respiratory protection.
• Identify lead and crystalline silica hazards in construction and learn about prevention and avoidance.
• Understand asbestos hazards and safety procedures when working around asbestos, including monitoring, communication, training, medical surveillance, PPE, and engineering controls.
• Understand the elements of the Hazard Communication Standard, identify the hazards of chemicals on a Hazardous Chemical Inventory, recognize the information needed on Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and warning labels, identify the meaning of pictograms, under the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), and recognize training program requirements.
• Recognize the safety hazards of using both non-powered and powered hand tools.
• Recognize heavy equipment safe work practices.
• Recognize safe operating procedures, hazards and procedures for working with forklifts.
• Identify fire prevention methods and OSHA’s requirements for fire protection.
• Understand welding and cutting general safety requirements and precautions.
• Identify OSHA’s concrete and masonry safety requirements for construction.
• Understand OSHA’s steel erection activities safety requirements.
• Understand how ergonomics can help workers avoid work-related MSDs.