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In Introduction to Construction Safety, you'll learn ...
- The leading causes of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry
- Safeguards and work practices you can use to mitigate the risks
- Success stories from project teams who fully committed to adopting and enforcing safe workplace practices
Overview
Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 20 pages
Construction work is dangerous business. The fatal injury rate for the construction industry is much higher than in most other industries. To function safely within the confines of this industry, workers must acquaint themselves with necessary precautions and diligently practice them.
In this course, we’ll review some of the most prevalent hazards in the construction industry, along with OSHA requirements and safe work practices designed to mitigate the hazards. Areas that will be covered include: scaffolding, fall protection, stairs and ladders, trenching, hazard communication and forklift operations.
This course is useful for contractors, engineers of all disciplines, as well as managers, tradesmen, and anyone else who has occasion to work in or around the construction industry.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- OSHA requirements for the erection, use and inspection of scaffolding
- The difference between a "competent" person and a "qualified" person with respect to scaffold safety
- Guidelines for green, yellow and red tagging of scaffolding
- OSHA rules for fall protection of construction industry employees working at height
- OSHA’s requirements for when employers must provide stairways and ladders
- The difference between an excavation and a trench
- OSHA requirements for sloping, shoring and shielding of trenches
- OSHA’s soil type classifications as they relate to slope angle of the trench
- Trench boxes and other protective systems that are used to comply with OSHA’s standards
- Safe practices for use of cranes and forklifts on a construction site
- Methods to mitigate the hazards associated with the storage and handling of chemicals on site
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 20 pages
