The ultimate course on excavation safety
Need to learn how to stay safe in an excavation or trench, then this course is for you. The course covers everything you need to know about trenches and excavations. Excavation work is one of the most deadly things a person can do. Each year hundreds of people lose their lives in excavations because the skip the basics. Don’t let that happen to you!
What you’ll learn
- Learn the difference between a trench and excavation.
- Learn the inspection requirements.
- Learn the access requirements.
- Learn how to slope.
- Learn the relevant OSHA standards related to this topic.
- Learn how to work safer when doing work related to this topic.
- Increase your workplace safety and health skill set.
- Get certified and become more valuable in the workforce.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 3 lectures • 7min.
- Inspections and Soil Testing –> 4 lectures • 17min.
- Safety Checks –> 1 lecture • 4min.
- Access –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- Hazards –> 4 lectures • 14min.
- Protective Systems –> 2 lectures • 8min.
- Thank you –> 1 lecture • 3min.
Requirements
Need to learn how to stay safe in an excavation or trench, then this course is for you. The course covers everything you need to know about trenches and excavations. Excavation work is one of the most deadly things a person can do. Each year hundreds of people lose their lives in excavations because the skip the basics. Don’t let that happen to you!
This course is intended to provide safety and health training in compliance with Federal OSHA and State OSHA training requirements such as CalOSHA. If you have questions, you may ask our instructors and they will respond to you with in a short period of time as is outlined by the OSHA standards.
The training will cover all of the required elements outlined in Federal and State OSHA standards to ensure that your training meets or exceed the minimum required training. If your training has a time-requirement, the content of the training has been designed to meet that requirement.
The training is developed by our in-house, real trainers with twenty years of experience, working in the field and with real crews and is trusted by public agencies throughout California.
There are no prerequisites required for this course. The course will walk you through all of the elements required to be successful and complete any questions or quizzes or testing that may be required.