After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize the importance of OSHA in providing a safe and healthful workplace to workers covered by OSHA
• Identify struck-by and caught-in or caught-between hazards associated with serious construction-related injuries
• Identify safe work practices around electricity, including understanding electrical terms, basic electrical safety principles, and regulations which pertain to electrical safety
• Recognize the dangers involved in excavations and how to take responsibility and work safely around trenches and excavations
• Identify types of fall hazards and how to prevent falls in your work environment by using appropriate fall protection
• Identify the crane safety requirements for the construction industry, and explain how to avoid accidents and identify hazards when working on or around cranes
• Recognize ladder hazards and ladder-related injuries and how to select, inspect, and maintain ladders
• Identify how to properly use, maintain, store, and dispose of materials including safe operation of cranes, rigging, and mechanical equipment
• Identify a confined space, its hazards, requirements for confined spaces as listed under the Confined Spaces in Construction Standard, and duties and responsibilities of confined space workers
• Select a variety of PPE based on a workplace evaluation and types of hazards
• Recognize types of scaffolds and how to safely use them.

The 10-hour OSHA Construction outreach course provides basic awareness training on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of workplace hazards.

Construction employers that have received OSHA's Outreach Program training have observed up to a 66% decrease in injuries resulting in time off. This online training course on construction safety is a follow-up to the very popular 10-hour construction safety program  and is designed to educate construction workers on a range of basic safety and health guidelines. You will be required to spend a minimum of 10 hours in this OSHA 10-hour online training.

Course topics include:

• Introduction to OSHA,
• Struck and Caught Hazards
• Electrical Safety
• Fall Protection
• Ladder Safety
• Excavation Safety
• Scaffold Safety
• Materials Handling
• Crane Safety
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Permit-Required Confined Space Entry.

Individuals have 180 days to complete training from the start of the program and receive an OSHA course completion card upon finishing.

OSHA advises that Outreach Training Program courses be taken as a way to introduce employees to the basics of occupational safety and health. Employees must be provided further training by OSHA as needed, on the specifics of their work's potential dangers.

OSHA Policies

• OSHA limits all OSHA Outreach Training (classroom and online) to a maximum of 7.5 hours of training per day in all OSHA 10-Hour courses. As a result, all 10-Hour courses must be delivered over a minimum of two days.
• OSHA also defines Program Jurisdiction Restrictions. Outreach Training Programs are limited to OSHA Jurisdiction only. Student course completion cards can only be issued for students within U.S. jurisdiction (the 50 States and certain U.S. Territories)
• This course does NOT meet the requirements in New York City

This course has these features and more.

• DOL Card
• Certificate of Completion
• Multimedia
• Narration
• Interactivity
• Easy navigation
• Supplementary material
• Links to regulations
• Real-world scenarios
• Objective-based exams

OSHA - 29 CFR 1926