OSHA 3015: Excavation, Trenching, and Soil Mechanics

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This course covers the OSHA Excavation Standard and safety and health aspects of excavation and trenching. Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored slopes and walls of excavations, introduction of various types of shoring (wood timbers and hydraulic), soil classification, and use of protective systems. Testing methods are demonstrated and students participate in workshops in the use of instruments such as penetrometers, torvane shears, and engineering rods. Upon course completion students will have the ability to assess their employer’s compliance with the OSHA Excavation Standard, utilize soil testing methods to classify soil types, determine protective systems for excavation operations, and training requirements. Minimum student contact hours: 20

Respirable Crystalline Silica Compliance Course for Construction

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This class will be a comprehensive review of the 2016 OSHA regulation on Respirable Crystalline Silica. We will outline the standard in detail, discuss the construction “table 1” method of compliance, and discuss the potential impacts on construction sites.  We will also discuss job tasks, exposure assessment, air monitoring, engineering controls, and medical surveillance requirements.  With this class, you will be able to train your company designated competent person to competently implement and oversee your exposure plans on your construction sites.  Attendees will receive an electronic presentation to use for training.

 

What you will learn

  • An Overview of Silica and the Health Effects from Exposure to Silica
  • A Section-by-section understanding of the OSHA’s Silica standard
  • Examples of Exposure Control plans for Silica
  • Competent Person Requirements
  • When Medical Evaluations are Required
  • Air Sampling Strategies and Results
  • How to apply Engineering Controls

OSHA #7225 Transitioning to Safer Chemicals

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This course covers a proactive approach to reducing the use of hazardous chemicals in the workplace by transitioning to safer alternatives.  Course topics include identification, evaluation, assessment, and implementation of safer chemical alternatives.  In particular, participants will use OSHA’s seven-step substitution planning process.  The course features workshops and hands-on activities with the use of various online chemical databases and tools.  The target audience is purchasing staff, maintenance supervisors, facility managers, and workers who utilize hazardous chemicals at their worksites, along with occupational safety and health professionals who provide technical assistance on the control of chemical hazards.  Upon course completion participants will have the ability to recognize and evaluate hazardous chemicals in their workplace, assess safer alternatives, and implement those alternatives.  Minimum student contact hours: 7.5

 

Prerequisites: None

OSHA 30 Hour Construction Industry

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This course is intended to provide a variety of training to workers with some safety responsibility. Workers must receive additional training on hazards specific to their job. Training will emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, does not include OSHA standards. OSHA 30-hour construction cards will be issued upon completion of the class. Credit Awarded: 3 CEUs

OSHA 10 Hour Construction Industry

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This course is intended to provide entry level construction workers general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards on a construction site. The training covers a variety of construction safety and health topics which a worker amy encounter at a construction site. OSHA recommends this training as an orientation to occupational safety and health. Workers must receive additional training on hazards specific to their job. Upon successful competion, students will receive an OSHA 10-hr card. Credit Awarded: 1 CEU

Mobile Crane Operator Certification

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Mobile Crane Operator Training & Certification Exam (Written and Practical Exam)

This program is ideal for operators and other personnel who require a thorough knowledge of the safe operation of mobile cranes.

Learn the technical aspects of mobile crane operation with emphasis on safety, load, charts, setup and operating practices.

The course is instructed by Crane Institute Certified Trainer and Practical Examiner Brenda Hawkey.

Please call 937-521-1574 or email jgonzalez@midamericaosha.org and let us know which exam you would like to be tested on:

1-General Knowledge (mandatory if you haven’t taken in within a year)

2- Articulating Boom Cranes (ABC)

3- Service/Mechanic Truck Cranes (SMT)

4- Telescoping Boom, Under 21 Tons

5- Telescoping Boom, 21-75 Tons

6- Telescoping Boom, Over 75 Tons

7- Lattice Boom, Carrier & Crawler

8- Precast Delivery Crane Operator

9- Tower Crane Operator

10- Rigger/Signalperson

OSHA 7300 – Understanding OSHA’s Permit-Required Confined Space Standard

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Confined SpaceThis course covers the requirements of the OSHA Permit-Required Confined Space Standard. Course topics include safety and health hazards associated with confined space entry, and the evaluation, prevention, and abatement of these hazards. The course covers OSHA requirements; it does not feature workshops (instrumentation, control methods and testing) which are included in the OSHA #2264 Permit-Required Confined Space Entry. This course is designed for small employers or a designated representative (line supervisor or manager) with the responsibility to develop a permit-required confined space program. Upon course completion students will have a basic understanding of confined space hazards, evaluating and abatement of the hazards, and determining when a confined space shall be classified as a permit-required confined space. Minimum student contact hours: 7

Prerequisites: None