OSHA 30 Hour Training

The Occupational Safety and Health Act has laid down certain laws for assuring safe and healthy work place conditions for workers. The act was first passed in the year 1970. Since then, it has been altered and amended throughout the years. As per OSHA, all employers are required to provide their employees with a safe, hazard free work place. Employees should strictly be kept away from exposure to toxic chemicals, mechanical dangers, excessive noise levels, heat and cold stress and unsanitary conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration aids individual states for assuring that the work place conditions correctly meet the regulations laid down by it. Every state has its own OSHA training office. Sometimes, these offices themselves provide OSHA training courses. All the necessary education, information and training requirements for abiding by the law of OSHA and complying with its health issues are provided by the federal agency itself. But there are also certain web...

When you check the overall rates of workplace violence, you’ll find that there is a decline in rates in the past decade but homicides associated with clients and customers have increased. Employees dealing with the public are especially at risk. In and through the workplace, there is a growing risk for employees who serve the public that include workers in health care, social services, retail, and government. When we checked the statistics over the period from 1997 to 2007, there is an increase of 200% of homicides associated with clients and customers. Many of the work related homicides are associated with robbery. However, there are also other scenarios like one incident shows a retail employee shot and killed by a customer who was dissatisfied about a clothing order. Numerous employees over the years have been gunned down in their workplace by discontented colleagues or former employees. Employees can tackle a situation if they are confronted by a violent or threatening individual. ...

It is estimated that 24,882 injuries and 36 fatalities take place each year due to falls from ladders and stairways used in constructions. Stairway and ladders are a major cause of occupational fatalities and injuries among construction workers. Often these injuries are serious enough to put them off from their work. Nearly eleven thousand workers lost their jobs and thirteen thousands are absent from work due to injuries from falls. Ladders and stairways have been used in various work industries especially in the construction field. To work around stairways and ladders is dangerous and can prove hazardous if workers don’t pay much attention to their safety while working. Unsafe use of these two tools may have injured hundreds of workers but all these fatalities and injuries can be prevented. OSHA has been taking this initiative to protect workers and to prevent any fall injuries. They have also regulated some rules for the safe use of ladders and stairways and to prevent any workplace...

A lot of workers have been involved in an incommensurate number of forklift accidents. This may be due to their inexperience, lack of training or risk taking. You can only imagine the dangers posed by inexperienced or untrained forklift drivers. Not only are they putting their lives in grave danger, but also endangering the safety of others. The number of deaths and injuries are high but being inexperienced is not an excuse that they can use. If you are an employer, you have certain responsibilities to protect your workers and prevent the forklift related accidents. And as per OSHA’s Powered Industrial Truck standard (29 CFR 1910.178), only well trained and educated truck operators must function a powered industrial truck. These operators must have a successful completion of training. Forklift operation is one of the most highly sought out skills that is required in almost all industries. An inexperienced hand operating a forklift can turn it into a deadly machine. Moreover, they are l...