STC Safety & Training

30-Hour OSHA Construction Training: TR - 004

Course Length: 30 Hours

This is a thirty hour program intended to provide a comprehensive overview of OSHA standards applicable to the construction industry. This program provides a full overview of OSHA standards for construction. The program includes core elements and optional topics allowing you to customize the message to your specific training needs.

Required Course Topics:

  • Introduction to the OSHA Act -2 hours
    • The OSH Act, General Duty Clause, employer and employee rights and responsibilities, whistleblower rights, basic recordkeeping
    • Inspections, citations and penalties
    • General safety and health provisions, competent person, Subpart C
    • Value of safety and health
    • OSHA website and available resources
    • OSHA 800 number
  • OSHA focus on four hazards – 5 hours
    • Fall protection, Subpart M
    • Electrical, Subpart K
    • Struck by (e.g., falling objects, trucks and cranes)
    • Caught in/between (e.g., trench hazards, equipment)
  • Personal protective and lifesaving equipment – 2 hours
    • Subpart E
  • Health hazards in construction – 2 hours
    • Hazcom and silica
  • Stairways and ladders – 1 hour
    • Subpart X

Elective/Selected Topics:

  • STD 3-1.1 “Clarification of citation policy regarding 29 CFR 1926.20, 29 CFR 1926.21 and related general safety and health provisions”; safety programs
  • Fire protection and prevention
    • Subpart F
  • Material handling, storage use and disposal
    • Subpart H
  • Tools, hand and powered
    • Subpart I
  • Scaffolds
    • Subpart L
  • Cranes, derricks, hoists, elevators and conveyors
    • Subpart N
  • Motor vehicles, mechanized equipment and marine operations; Roll over protective structures and overhead protection; and Signs, signals and barricades
    • Subpart O
    • Subpart W
    • Subpart G
  • Excavations
    • Subpart P
  • Concrete and masonry construction
    • Subpart Q
  • Steel erection
    • Subpart R
  • Confined space entry
  • Powered industrial vehicles
  • Ergonomics

Course Length: 10 hours
Prerequisites: None
Note: If participants have participated in an OSHA 10 hour construction class in the last six months, they may upgrade their training by only participating in the missing elements.