Four (No Cost) OSHA Safety Training for workers in the Offshore Wind Industry

The New England Consortium (TNEC), based at UMass Lowell, is offering four different OSHA trainings at no-cost. Each of the courses will help foster an awareness of the hazards encountered when working within the offshore wind industry and how to control and mitigate these hazards. This training is supported by funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Training can be provided on site at your facility. Course details are below.

OSHA 30-Hour General Industry training

The OSHA 30-hour General Industry training is designed for workers with some safety responsibility, including managers and supervisors. The training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention, not OSHA standards.

OSHA 10-Hour General Industry training

This training program is intended to provide entry level general industry workers information about how to identify, abate, avoid, and prevent job related hazards on a job site, as well their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint.

OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety training

The 30-hour Construction Safety training is designed for construction safety directors, forepersons, field supervisors, and workers with some safety responsibility. The training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention, not OSHA standards.

OSHA 10-Hour Construction Safety training

This training program is intended to provide entry level construction workers information about how to identify, abate, avoid, and prevent job related hazards on a construction site, as well as their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint.

Download a PDF of these course descriptions here.

The New England Consortium, based UMass Lowell, is a worker health and safety training program that has been delivering training since 1987 in hazardous materials operations, emergency response, infectious disease preparedness, disaster preparedness, and general workplace health and safety.
For more information, please contact:
Patricia Strizak, TNEC Training Coordinator, Patricia_Strizak1@uml.edu, 516-509-3602.