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 focuses on the elements of good construction site housekeeping, important for safety and required by OSHA. Defined as the removal of any hazards, material, or equipment that prevents workers from doing their job safely or that otherwise poses a danger, good housekeeping involves various engineering controls, work practices, and flagging and barricade measures.

An introductory overview of jobsite safety issues which outlines the role of OSHA, the employer, and the worker. This course provides basic steps that can be taken to insure a safe work area. For their part on the “Safety Team,” workers are responsible for knowing their employer’s injury and illness prevention program, identifying common hazards, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), and taking appropriate housekeeping measures.

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.

An introduction to basic and essential worksite PPE, including hard hats and their classifications, protective eyewear, hearing protection, and protective gloves, footwear, and clothing.

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.

Every employer should have a written fall protection plan specific to any job site with fall hazards. This introductory course focuses on two kinds of fall protection – fall arrest and fall restraint systems – as well as equipment (body harness, lanyard, anchorage points) and competent person requirements. Course is based on Cal OSHA safety orders.

Basic fire prevention techniques are addressed in this course. How to assess fire risks, control of small fires, and the proper use of fire extinguishers are covered in detail. Knowing when and how to call for help, and evacuation procedures are included in this course as well. Course is based on Cal OSHA safety orders.

An introduction to basic and essential worksite PPE, including hard hats and their classifications, protective eyewear, hearing protection, and protective gloves, footwear, and clothing. Course is based on Cal OSHA safety orders.

Working from a scaffold presents clear and present hazards. This course covers worker training, scaffold pre-use inspection, and general safety principles. Rolling, suspended, and ladder jack scaffolds are also discussed. Course is based on Cal OSHA safety orders.

This course reviews the basics of the Cal-OSHA organization, and comparisons to Federal OSHA. The course reviews some of the similarities and differences of the two agencies and requirements specific to several construction safety and health standards to include: ergonomics, fall protection, hazard communication and others. Identifies the major permits required when doing construction work in California, not required by Federal requirements.

This course reviews OSHA’s new publication “Crystalline Silica Exposure for Construction Employees” which provides basic information on what crystalline silica is, it’s hazards, symptoms of silicosis, where construction workers are exposed, how OSHA is addressing exposure, and what employers and employees can do to protect against exposures to crystalline silica.

This introductory course outlines basic strategies for safe driving and overall defensive driving awareness. The course focus is on high-risk road conditions and driving behavior, as well as on vehicle maintenance, and safe practices behind the wheel.

Gas monitoring instruments are designed to protect personnel from unseen hazards that may exist in workplace environments, including confined spaces. OSHA recognizes that it is vital that these instruments are maintained and calibrated properly. This course will familiarize the student with OSHA’s position and recommendations on the subject. This course is intended to inform the student of new information presented by OSHA in their bulletin (SHIB 05-04-2004), “Verification of Calibration for Direct-Reading Portable Gas Monitors”.

This course will focus on identifying primary common electrical hazards, will discuss effects of electricity on the human body, and will review a number of safe working procedures and inspection processes to aid personnel who must safely work with electrical equipment and systems. The course is intended for workers, supervisors and managers whose operations bring them into contact with or exposure to live electrical circuits, and energized electrical equipment and tools.

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 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 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.

An overview of basic safety awareness principles when working on a job site with mobile equipment—whether it is moving or not.