OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety Training

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.

The course curriculum includes:
Mandatory – 14 hours

1. Introduction to OSHA (1h)
   Covers workers’ rights, employer responsibilities and how to file a complaint. Includes helpful worker safety and health resources. Provides samples of a weekly fatality and catastrophe report, safety data sheet and the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (OSHA form 300).
2. Managing Health and Safety (2h)
   Includes 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.
3. OSHA Focus Four Hazards (4h)
   Falls must be covered for a minimum of one hour and 30 minutes. The remaining three Focus Four Hazards must be covered for a minimum of one-half hour each.
   1) Falls (minimum 1.5h)
   2) Electrocution
   3) Struck-by
   4) Caught-in or Between
4. Personal Protective Equipment (2h)
5. Health Hazards in Construction (2h)
6. Stairways and Ladders (1h)

Elective – 12 hours
(at least 6 topics, half-hour minimum on each topic)

1. Concrete and Masonry Construction
2. Confined Space Entry
3. Cranes, Derricks, Hoists, Elevators, and Conveyors
4. Ergonomics
5. Excavations
6. Fire Protection and Prevention
7. Materials Handling, Storage, Use, and Disposal
8. Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment and Marine Operations; Rollover Protective Structures and Overhead Protection; and Signs, Signals and Barricades.
9. Powered Industrial Vehicles
10. Safety and Health Programs
11. Scaffolds
12. Steel Erection
13. Tools – Hand and Power
14. Welding and Cutting
15. Foundations for Safety Leadership (minimum 2.5 hours)

Optional – 4 hours
(minimum length is half-hour on any one topic)