OSHA

IASP 30-hour construction course is intended to provide a variety of training to workers with some safety responsibility. Training should emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, as well as osha standards. Instructional time must be a minimum of 30 hours. Suitable for safety supervisor, safety officer, safety consultancy, safety committee member, any safety professionals.

Course contents:

Introduction to osha 

Covers workers’ rights, employer responsibilities and how to file a complaint. It includes helpful worker safety and health resources. It also provides a sample weekly fatality and catastrophe report, a material data safety sheet and the osha log of work-related injuries and illnesses (osha form 300)

Managing safety and health 

May include injury and illness prevention programs, job site inspections, accident prevention programs, management commitment and employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, accident investigations, how to conduct safety meetings, and supervisory communication

Osha focus four hazards

Because most construction fatalities are caused by fall hazards, falls must be covered for a minimum of one hour and 15 minutes. The other focus four hazards must be covered for a minimum of one-half hour each. A trainer may spend up to 10 hours on this topic.

•  falls (minimum 1 hour and 15 minutes)
•  electrocution
•  struck-by (e.G., falling objects, trucks, cranes)
•  caught-in or between (e.G., trench hazards, equipment)

Focus four hazards training requirements:

All lessons for the focus four hazards are required to use the following terminal (to) and enabling (eo) objectives:

To: given current osha and industry information regarding construction worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize [fall, caught-in or between, struck-by, electrocution] hazards in construction.
Specifically, for each of the focus four, the student will be able to:

• Eo 1: identify major hazards
• Eo 2: describe types of hazards
• Eo 3: protect him/herself from these hazards
• Eo 4 : recognize employer requirements to protect workers from these hazards