OSHA 30 Hour Safety Course

OSHA fines all those employers and companies that do not comply with its regulations and standards. Protecting your company’s finances and minimizing any legal liabilities should be your first priority. But how can you do this when OSHA tends to conduct surprise inspections every now and then? A good safety program, safety procedures and policies and even a safety manager will be able to minimize your potential for having safety violations. Here are a few tips on how to handle a surprise inspection: Start by first verifying the inspector’s credentials. Check for the name, title, phone number and business address and ask for any legitimate OSHA identification. Once you know the inspector is legitimate, accompany him. Find out what the reason of the visit is before you start answering questions. Make sure that the managers in the company meet with the inspector and he should be accompanied by a Human Resources representative. Allow the inspector to walk around the company freely and at l...

We cannot deny the fact that oil spill workers have played a major role with regards to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. At any particular point in time there were more than 42,500 personnel and more than 2,000 Federal employees who were directly involved in the cleanup operations across the four states. Overall, BP's oil spill disaster had leaked nearly 180 million tons of oil into the Gulf. Moreover, nearly 5 million barrels of oil had spilled into the Gulf. The spill even caused a massive explosion that instantly killed 11 people. Since then, BP has ordered 32 machines to separate the oil and water. A Unified Command for the Deepwater BP Oil Spill even stated that nearly 9.9 million gallons had been burned and 28 million gallons of oily water had been recovered. So if ever a spill on such a scale were to occur, would you be prepared? We all love to do our part, when it comes to saving the delicate ecosystems that are completely en-twirled and entangled in one and other. Well, in...

There is so much on the Internet to read about OSHA all the safety training courses offered, that it can sometimes get very confusing. Ever wondered what the difference was between the OSHA 10 Hour Course and the OSHA 30 Hour Course, apart from the hours? Do you ever wonder if these courses are related, and if yes, then what are the differences? The OSHA 10 Hour course is as its name suggests, a 10 hour course that is designed by OSHA to instruct workers on how to recognize and prevent hazards at the workplace. The main aim of any kind of OSHA training courses is to reduce the number of workplace injuries and illnesses that occur. The OSHA 10 Hour training courses are available for both – the general as well as the construction industry. Some of the topics include: fire protection, means of egress, personal protective equipment, electrical safety, and many similar topics. Those students who successfully complete the 10 hour course will receive a DOL 10 hour card. Similar to the OSHA 10...

When one talks about head protection, we instantly think about the safety helmet. But people are often unaware of the significance of the helmet. For this very reason, construction workers and employees ought to enroll themselves in the OSHA 30 Hour Construction Course, in order to get a better understanding of the importance of PPE. Firstly, this course is important, for it touches upon the areas in which the safety helmet ought to be worn. They are: 1.When there is a possibility that a person may be struck on the head by a falling object; 2.If a person is likely to strike his/her head against a fixed object; or 3.When there is a chance that an inadvertent head contact may be made with electrical hazards. Here too, one must keep in mind that,'bump caps', the commonly used alternative of the safety helmet, does not always provide protection against any of the hazards, described above. Fortunately, a wide range of accessories can be attached to the basic safety helmet, in order ...

Working in trenches and excavations brings along a lot of risks and dangers. The most life threating of all the risks related to excavations are cave-ins. A cave-in is a situation wherein the walls of a trench collapse. Cave-ins are considered really very deadly. This is because, the soil walls around the trench collapse without any warning. Thus, the worker, who is working inside the earth cavity, is left with almost no time for making an escape. The weight of the soil crushes down and twists the body. This might result in serious bodily injuries and, at times, even death. Excavations are dangerous irrespective of their depths. Thus, care must be taken for every one of the trenches that have been dug. OSHA 30 Hour Construction courses teach the precautions that should be taken while working in an excavation. There are many reasons for walls collapsing in trenches. The walls are nothing more than undisturbed soil that is held in place due to various forces. In time, after digging, this...

In OSHA safety training programs, a lot of emphasis is given to providing workers with the knowledge about the importance of safety equipment. The fact is that a great deal of accidents happen when they are not wearing proper safety equipment. A lot of organizations have workers that fail to wear the necessary safety equipment while at work. There are a number of reasons behind why they don't consider the need to wear safety equipment important. First of all, most of them are not aware of the dangers that are associated at the job site and how they can reduce it by wearing safety equipment. Another is that the equipment or clothing they wear is not comfortable most of the time, and sometimes it is very heavy, making the workers dread it as it makes their work more complicated. Again, some employers do not mandate them to wear the safety clothing, putting their lives at danger even more. This happens in numerous occasions and the fatality increases when they don’t comply with PPE. O...