This course is intended to inform students of basic guidelines and methods employed for a 100% fall protection program. It reviews elements of fall hazards, fall hazard evaluation, and fall hazard control. This training references applicable OSHA requirements and other pertinent information. Real life case studies and lessons learned are presented to illustrate the “why” and the “need” for compliance and following OSHA requirements and industrial best practices.

This course covers accident prevention responsibilities of the employer to initiate and maintain accident prevention programs as may be necessary to meet OSHA compliance requirements and to provide for a safe and healthful working environment for employees.

This course covers topics associated with the abuse of alcohol and substances, including: Who alcohol and substance abuse affects, an overview of alcohol and substances most often abused, the recognition and effects of alcohol and drugs, what you should do if you recognize use or abuse in your workplace, Codependency issues, sources of help for those who need it and drug testing in the workplace.

This supervisory-level asbestos awareness course covers asbestos exposure risks, effects, and engineering, administrative and personal protection equipment controls, as well as the relevant OSHA regulations.

This course covers OSHA’s Subpart Q, Concrete and Masonry Construction and reviews requirements to protect construction workers from premature removal of formwork, the failure to brace masonry walls, the failure to support pre-cast panels, the inadvertent operation of equipment and the failure to guard reinforcing steel. It also covers health hazards and control information including skin, eye and inhalation hazards and associated protective measures.

This course offers supervisory level training in confined space, permit required entry operations. It focuses on OSHA requirements for entry; on recognizing, evaluating and controlling hazards; and on confined space entry team roles, standard equipment and rescue procedures.

This course is designed to present a number of key points relative to general construction work, especially for the new employee. This course is intended to familiarize the student with fundamental construction issues and is designed to be used as a guide to assist contractors and subcontractors in training new employees on general safety practices. Topics discussed include PPE, Hazard Communication, Fatality Prevention, General Construction Hazards, and accident/incident reporting. Approximately 45 minutes.

Fitness is essential for staying healthy and working safely. This course defines fitness as a combination of flexibility, strength and endurance, and offers the student ways to assess and improve their own fitness in these categories.

This course focuses on identifying, controlling, and isolating the most common hazardous energies in the workplace including: electrical, chemical, mechanical, pressure, thermal, and radiation. It also reviews lock-out/tag-out procedures.

This course covers basic safety-related elements of crane operation. Special attention is paid to OSHA regulations, types of cranes, load charts, inspections and certifications.

This course offers extended training in driving defensively. It focuses on critical driver safety issues and methods of controlling the hazards behind most accidents. Course content includes preparation, seat belts and air bags, the good driver defined, the cushion of safety, intersections, backing safety, aggressive driving, cell phones and other distractions, drugs and alcohol, fatigue, winter driving and other issues.

This course focuses on demolition planning, hazards, and safe work practices. Special attention is paid to High Hazard Demolition – work involving other hazardous materials in or around industrial facilities using high-risk materials.

Dust generation / dust control is beginning to have major impacts on construction and construction related projects (e.g. housing and commercial developments, Brownfield’s, hazardous material clean-up, etc.) in terms of costs, regulatory compliance and safety and health impacts. This course will take a look at the issues to include regulatory requirements, how to recognize potential hazards and concerns, how to evaluate the potential problems (e.g. dust monitoring), identify control strategies and provide the student with additional sources of information and assistance.

This training module provides practical information on the recognition and control of electrical hazards found in the construction industry. It is designed to supplement other formal presentations on electrical safety and electrical safety standards. It is designed for construction workers, supervisors and managers.

This course focuses on specific types of job site electrical hazards, and on protective devices and practices in the context of electrical safety.

This course will review some basic principals and fundamentals of emergency action, emergency response and fire prevention with respect to construction safety and health focusing on heavy construction.

This course offers training on how to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control emergency response hazards. It emphasizes the 8 basic fundamentals of emergency response activities.

This course focuses on ergonomic injury and illness awareness in the field and in the office. It focuses is on preventing recognizing, evaluating and mitigating muscular skeletal job-related medical disorders – with causes that may escape notice – especially those brought about by repetitive motions, awkward postures, excessive force and back strain.

This course offers supervisory-level training in identifying and protecting against fall hazards in the workplace.

This module is intended to inform the student of basic guidelines and methods for the selection, inspection and maintenance of fall protection equipment to include the body belt, full body harness, lanyard, and related equipment. This module will discuss general principals for how to put on and take off a full body harness.

This covers fire preparedness and emergency response; special attention is devoted to anticipating, recognizing and controlling the conditions that create a greater risk of fire. Course references specific Cal OSHA requirements for sizes and lengths of hoses used for fire prevention.

This supervisory-level awareness course focuses on principles and practices of safe fork lift use; special attention is paid to pre-use inspection and basic rules of operation.

This module covers the two basic methods for employing ground fault protection in construction. We will describe the function use and application of ground fault circuit interrupters or GFCI’s and assured equipment grounding conductor programs or AEG or AEGCP, how they work and requirements for each. The training information presented in this module should not be considered as a substitute for the full safety and health standards for general industry or for the construction industry.

Hazard Communication – This course offers training on the basics of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). Elements include: the components of a Waskom program; hazardous chemicals and their properties; parties responsible for implementing Waskom; and the employee’s right to access information, training, and protection. Course references California specific issues: Substances covered by Haz-Com and requirements under proposition 65.

This course instructs workers, supervisors and managers in hazardous waste types, sources, handling, transportation, and emergency response. It also focuses on regulatory and legal requirements, related penalties, and compliance programs.

This course about worksite heat-stress teaches workers, supervisors, and manager heat stress awareness, symptoms, illnesses, preventive measures, and medical surveillance.

This course covers the planning, principles, and procedures for safe helicopter operations.

This course will review the various items of information found on a typical Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). It explains the function of each section and the type of information that should be provided to the user of the MSDS.

This course designed for employees and supervisors that work with lasers in the field, examines lasers: their applications, hazards, controls and other safety practices.

This supervisory-level course examines the threat of lead in the workplace, including sources of lead and lead exposure levels, limits and controls. Special emphasis is given to OSHA standards and the risks to the families of workers.

This course covers OSHA requirements for the safe handling of building materials, equipment, and containers. Primarily, it covers the safe use and maintenance of rigging equipment, and proper disposal methods for debris and other construction related waste materials according to OSHA regulations. In addition, this course also addresses safe mechanical and manual materials handling, as well as both hand and power tools and equipment for materials handling.

Concern about indoor exposure to mold has increased along with public awareness that exposure to mold can cause a variety of health effects and symptoms, including allergic reactions. This safety and health information bulletin provides recommendations for the prevention of mold growth and describes measures designed to protect the health of building occupants and workers involved in mold cleanup and prevention. This course will familiarize the student with OSHA’s position and recommendations on the subject.

Molds (and fungi) grow nearly everywhere in our environment and especially where there is moisture. Mold can also be a serious health hazard to people that come into contact with it. This course provides basic information on mold to include: how to recognize mold, it’s health effects, regulatory agency information and websites, evaluation of mold contamination especially in structures designed for human occupancy, and a description of basic techniques used to clean up mold and control mold growth.

This supervisory awareness course focuses on basic guidelines and safeguards for mobile operations; special attention is paid to the particular features of different mobile platforms, including the operation of scissor lifts.

In this course module entitled “New and Hot Topics at OSHA – 2005″ we cover OSHA news, new alerts, and bulletins with the potential of affecting the construction and construction related industry. This module also reviews new and hot topics that OSHA has put energy into since late 2003, 2004 and we expect will continue thru 2005. The objective of this module is keep the student informed of the latest information coming out of federal OSHA that has the potential to impact the construction and construction related industry. A secondary objective is to provide new general information that is intended to promote a more safe and healthful workplace.

In this module we will take a look at new and hot topics from OSHA and other organizations likely affecting occupational safety and health in 2006. The objective of this module is keep the student informed of the latest information coming out of federal OSHA (and other agencies/organizations) that has the potential to impact the construction and hazardous waste operations industry. A secondary objective to provide new general information that is intended to promote a more safe and healthful workplace. New and hot topics presented include: an overall update on the regulatory front, OSHA’s new emphasis and guidance on chemical reactivity hazards, new youth employment rules, OSHA’s new information and best practices for hospitals receiving victims of mass casualties from release of hazardous substances, information on compliance assistance for Hispanic employers and workers, and also a look at California’s new emergency standard on heat illness which has the high potential to spill over to other states.

This course, designed for employees and others exposed to potentially damaging noise, covers exposure to, control of, and protection from dangerous or excessive worksite noise. It also examines the science of how noise affects the ear, as well as OSHA regulations and medical testing for hearing loss.

This employee and supervisory level course examines hazards in the office. It focuses on both the obvious causes of injury – lifting and carrying practices – and those associated with repetitive or prolonged activities such as computer use.

The objective of this course is to define the scope of OSHA and its importance for construction workers. Specific topics include employer and employee rights and responsibilities; general safety and health provisions; workplace inspections, citations, and variances; appeals; access to employee exposure and medical records, reporting and record keeping.

Collection of three modules including Lead Hazards, Laser Hazards, and Silica Hazards.

This module covers the various types of common personal protective equipment (PPE) to include its selection, use, maintenance, inspection, and storage. The various types of PPE included in this course include: head protection, eye and face protection, hand and arm protection, leg and foot protection, and whole body protection (to include the Levels of Protection for protection against hazardous waste and substances as specified by OSHA). Audience: Employees, supervisors and managers who use, select, maintain, and inspect PPE.

This Module covers the various types of specialized personal protective equipment (PPE) to include its selection, use, maintenance, inspection, and storage. The various types of specialized PPE included in this course are hearing protection, respiratory protection, fall protection, high visibility apparel and drowning protection.

This course, designed for supervisors and other employees that use power tools and focuses on hazards, safe work practices and guarding associated with mechanical tools.

This employee and supervisory level awareness course covers respiratory hazards and regulations, as well as types of respirators, respirator care, fit testing, inspection, and other best practices.

This course designed for those with exposure to cranes and rigging, offers training in rigging terminology, components, methods and OSHA standards for safe use.

Recently, OSHA issued an Alert on the “Dangers Associated with Cleanup and Recovery from Hurricanes”. To promote safety and health for construction, general industry and other workers (e.g. hazardous materials responders) this course reviews topics presented in OSHA’s alert to include some of the clean up and recovery tasks and safe work practices to prevent injury, illness and potential death. Although initially drafted to respond to hurricanes, the information presented has extensive significant applications to other clean up and recovery operations to both natural and man made disasters. This course not only looks at clean-up hazards (e.g. electrical, fire, biohazards, etc.), but also safe work practices and provides additional sources of information and assistance to the student.

This worker and supervisor level awareness level course focuses on standards for designing, erecting/disassembling, inspecting and ensuring safe access to scaffolds. Special attention is paid to the duties of the competent person responsible for scaffold erection operations. Course references specific Cal OSHA requirements with regard to permits, scaffold erection guying and tying, and trigger heights for fall protection. The California requirement for a “Qualified Person” (defined in courses) vs. “Competent Person” to supervise scaffold erection/dismantling is also discussed.

This course examines safety regulations and safe work practices for different types of scaffolds. Scissor lifts are briefly covered in this course. Special attention is paid to the causes of scaffold accidents and ways to prevent them. Course references specific Cal OSHA requirements for scaffolds, fall protection trigger heights, tying/guying, etc.

This ClickSafety training course is designed to familiarize the student with the basic OSHA requirements for: Accident prevention signs and tags; Signaling requirements for flaggers and cranes and hoists, and; Barricade requirements. This course will identify the common definitions used to describe signs, signals and barricades and review their different types. A close look at the those common traffic signs found during construction operations will also be presented as well as additional sources of information and assistance.

This course covers the sources, short-term and long-term dangers associated with silica exposure. Also reviewed are work activities associated with silica exposure and various means of control and protection.

During this session, we discuss the problem and effects of slips, trips and falls, identify common exposures, discuss methods for planning, communicating and educating for success, and then we close with a discussion on getting control of your losses through claims management techniques and other valuable risk engineering services. This is not the comprehensive staff training program, but a three-step approach to planning, communication and education for STF prevention success.

This course offers training in soil analysis and classification for safety during excavation and earth moving activities. Topics will include soil safety, soil mechanics, and visual and manual soil testing and soil classification. The course is intended for supervisors, managers and those who seek competent person status.

This supervisory level awareness course examines spray-coating operations: its methods, techniques, hazards and controls.

This course offers training in safe and effective use of stairways and ladders in accordance with the OSHA Standards. The course covers key terms and definitions, temporary stairs, ladder types, safe ladder use, inspection and straight, step and fixed ladders.

This course provides basic information from the general safety and health provisions found in OSHA’s Construction Safety and Health Regulations, Subpart C. Topics that will be reviewed in this module include a general discussion of OSHA requirements for: safety and health training and education, first aid, CPR, fire prevention and protection, housekeeping, important definitions, emergency access and egress, emergency action plans and other information.

This course will provide a general review of OSHA regulations found in subpart D of the federal construction safety and health standards, including requirements for medical services, first aid, sanitation, occupational noise exposure, ionizing radiation, airborne contaminants, illumination and ventilation. Companion courses include Subpart D, Health Hazards in Construction, Hazard Communication and How to Read an MSDS. It is designed for construction managers, supervisors and workers. It is also a basis for completion of the ClickSafety OSHA 30-hour construction safety course.

This course will provide a general review of OSHA regulations found in subpart D of the federal construction safety and health standards, including requirements for medical services, first aid, sanitation, occupational noise exposure, ionizing radiation, airborne contaminants, illumination and ventilation. Companion courses include Subpart D, Health Hazards in Construction, Hazard Communication and How to Read an MSDS. It is designed for construction managers, supervisors and workers. It is also a basis for completion of the ClickSafety OSHA 30-hour construction safety course.

This module will provide a general review of OSHA regulations found in subpart O of the Federal construction safety and health standards, and specific definitions found in Subpart O, and a review of standards for construction equipment in general, motor vehicles, material handling equipment, pile driving equipment, site clearing, and marine operations and equipment.

This course will review requirements covered by the federal OSHA construction safety standards on steel erection, subpart R. The course will address Key Terms, Fall Protection, Controlled Decking Zones, Starting Steel Erection, Hoisting and Rigging, Crane Safety, Structural Steel Assembly, Training and other considerations.

This course will provide the student with an overview of the hazards encountered when working in the sun and other outdoor hazards, how to recognize those hazards, what can be done to minimize the risk of exposure and potential injury and illness and additional sources of information for the student to recognize, evaluate and control outdoor hazards. The course references OSHA, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This course is designed for employees, supervisors and managers who work outdoors and others that are involved with safety and health practices for employees that work outdoors.

This course covers some basic practical applications of the requirements found in subpart P, of the safety and health regulations for construction, 29 CFR 1926. Special emphasis and practical exercises relating to appendices B, C and D of the subpart will be presented to convey the requirements of the regulation as it relates to sloping, benching, shoring and alternative protective methods for trenching and excavations. Interpretation and use of the shoring tables will be discussed. Grouping this course with CL2 Trenching and Excavations, CL2 Soil Analysis and Classifications and CL3 The Competent Person provides a prerequisite for Trenching and Excavation (Earthwork) Competent Person.

This course offers supervisory-level trenching and excavation training: OSHA standard, soil classification and protective systems, and installing or removing equipment and materials. Course references specific Cal OSHA requirement for excavation permits.

This worker and supervisory level course focuses on welding types, hazards, and controls; special emphasis is given to anticipating dangers and implementing safe work practices.

This supervisory level awareness course focuses on designing and protecting workzone traffic operations so as to promote the safety of workers and motorists, as well as maintaining a smooth flow of traffic.