Teamsters Safety and Health Department

The 10-hour training program is intended for entry level workers and is designed to increase workers’ knowledge about occupational hazards they may encounter on a job site and their rights. Training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention.

This course satisfies the requirements for annual refresher training for hazardous waste site workers. The course covers the material required in OSHA 1910.120 and complies with the NIEHS Minimum Criteria.

This course will train workers to safely operate a variety of powered industrial trucks (forklifts) used to move, load, unload, stack and stage materials and equipment at hazardous waste clean-up sites and Department of Energy remediation projects.

The 4-hour training program is intended as an entry-level worker awareness course designed to increase workers’ knowledge about permit-required confined spaces hazards they may encounter on a job site.

Train-the-Trainer training is offered by Teamsters Safety and Health Department. We provide comprehensive worker safety and health training to our rank-and-file membership.