A quick yet detailed certification in OSHA safety with a focus on Trenching, Excavation, & Soil Mechanics.
This course will enable employees, safety officers, and supervisors in receiving that much deserved promotion by showing to their employers that they have what it takes to be a safety minded, accident preventing team member. This course will focus on OSHA’s Soil, Trenching, and Excavation standard 1926 Subpart P, however, it is designed to further develop the team member in becoming a well rounded, safety conscious enabler.
What you’ll learn
- Be a hero by preventing deadly and costly accidents before they happen with a focus on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s trenching, excavation, and soil mechanics standard..
Course Content
- Section 1 Level Up as a Safety Officer – Excavations, Trenches, & Soil Mechanics –> 3 lectures • 9min.
- Section 2 OSHA & Employer Requirements –> 4 lectures • 19min.
- Section 3 Hazards, What Causes Cave-ins, and Confined Spaces –> 3 lectures • 15min.
- Working safely, the Competent Person, Soil Types, and Soil testing –> 2 lectures • 13min.
- What to do before you dig, types of trench protection, and underground utilities –> 2 lectures • 9min.
- OSHA’s Trenching and Excavation Fact Sheet –> 0 lectures • 0min.
- Section 6: Safety tips & facts to take with you, a short video, and conclusion. –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
This course will enable employees, safety officers, and supervisors in receiving that much deserved promotion by showing to their employers that they have what it takes to be a safety minded, accident preventing team member. This course will focus on OSHA’s Soil, Trenching, and Excavation standard 1926 Subpart P, however, it is designed to further develop the team member in becoming a well rounded, safety conscious enabler.
This course is a video course with the occasional quiz after a section.
Taking this course enables you to not only to become compliant on a project, but because your life, and the life of your colleagues matter, this course will ensure that you go home at the end of the day in the same manner in which you left for work.