The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Outreach Training Program for the Construction Industry teaches construction workers about their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint as well as how to identify, abate, avoid and prevent job related hazards. The 30-hour Construction Outreach Training Program is intended to provide a variety of training to workers with some safety responsibility. The training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention. In accordance with the Outreach Training Program Construction Industry Procedures dated April 2011, the daily classroom time is limited to 7.5 hours. The training Program which is delivered over 5 days consists of the following:

Mandatory – 15 hours

Introduction to OSHA

Managing Safety and Health

OSHA Focus Four Hazards (Falls, Electrocution, Struck-By, Caught-In or Between)

Personal Protective and Lifesaving Equipment

Health Hazards in Construction

Stairways and Ladders

Elective – 12 hours

a) Concrete and Masonry Construction

b) Confined Space Entry

c) Cranes, Derricks, Hoists, Elevators, & Conveyors

d) Ergonomics

e) Excavations

f) Fire Protection and Prevention

g) Materials Handling, Storage, Use and Disposal

h) Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment and Marine Operations;

Rollover Protective Structures and Overhead Protection; and Signs,

Signals and Barricades

i) Powered Industrial Vehicles

j) Safety and Health Programs

k) Scaffolds

l) Steel Erection

m) Tools – Hand and Power

n) Welding and Cutting

Optional Topics – 3 hours

This will include other construction industry hazards or policies and/or expand on the mandatory or elective topics.