OSHA 30-Hour 
General Industry Training

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. The general industry work setting includes health care, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, and retail. This course is essential for those who are working, or aspiring to work, as forepersons, engineers, field supervisors, project managers, safety specialists, and anyone with some safety responsibility by providing essential information that helps them to monitor workplace safety and implement OSHA regulations that apply to their workplaces.

The course curriculum includes:
Mandatory – 12 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)
3. Walking and Working Surfaces, including Fall Protection (1h)
4. Exit Routes, Emergency Action Plans, Fire Prevention Plans, and Fire Protection – (2h)
5. Electrical (2h)
6. Personal Protective Equipment (1h)
7. Materials Handling (2h)
8. Hazard Communication (1h)

Elective – 10 hours
(at least 5 topics, half-hour minimum on each topic)

1. Hazardous Materials
   Permit-Required Confined Spaces
2. Lockout/Tagout
3. Machine Guarding
4. Welding, Cutting, and Brazing
5. Introduction to Industrial Hygiene
6. Bloodborne Pathogens
7. Ergonomics
8. Fall Protection
9. Safety and Health Programs
10. Powered Industrial Vehicles

Optional – 8 hours
(minimum length is half-hour on any one topic)