OSHA 30 – HOUR CONSTRUCTION

Duration:

30 hours

Target group:

The OSHA Outreach Training Program for the Construction Industry teaches construction workers about their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint as well as how to identify, abate, avoid, and prevent job related hazards.

Prerequisites:

OSHA 10

Objective:

The 30-hour Construction OSHA Outreach Training Program is intended to provide a variety of training to workers with some safety responsibility. Training should emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention, not OSHA standards. Instructional time must be a minimum of 30 hours.

Contents:

The mandatory (14-hours minimum) topic requirements in this course are:

Concrete and masonry construction

Confined space entry

Cranes, derricks, hoists, elevators, and conveyors

Ergonomics

Evacuations

Fire protection and prevention

Materials handling, storage, use and disposal

Motor vehicles, mechanized equipment and marine operations: rollover Protective Structures and Overhead Protection; and Signs, Signals, and Barricades

Powered industrial vehicles

Safety and Health Programs

Scaffolds

Steel Erection

Tools – Hand and Power

Welding and Cutting

Foundations for Safety Leadership