['Safety and Health Programs and Training']
['OSHA Outreach Training']
01/02/2024
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The OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour courses are part of OSHA’s voluntary outreach training program. The courses are intended to provide basic and more advanced training about common safety and health hazards on the job.
OSHA sets up the curriculum requirements for voluntary 10- and 30-hour courses in both general industry and construction. When these 10- or 30-hour courses are taught by OSHA authorized trainers, the trainers can provide trainees with course completion cards from OSHA. These course completion cards are not “certifications,” but they do acknowledge that the person has taken either a 10-hour or 30-hour OSHA outreach training course that was taught by an authorized trainer.
Scope
No OSHA standard requires employees to take 10- or 30-hour courses. However, it is not uncommon for private construction or service contracts to include requirements that only workers who have completed a 10- or 30-hour OSHA outreach course may be allowed to work on the site. It is up to the individual company to decide to include such a requirement in the contract.
Regulatory citations
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Key definitions
- 10-hour and 30-hour programs are part of OSHA’s voluntary outreach training program that provide basic and more advanced training about common safety and health hazards on the job. The 10-hour training program is primarily intended for entry-level workers. The 30-hour training program is intended to provide workers with some safety responsibility a greater depth and variety of training. All outreach training is intended to cover an overview of the hazards a worker may encounter on a job site. Training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, not OSHA standards.
- OSHA authorized trainer means an independent service provider who has been trained through the OSHA outreach training program to deliver outreach training classes. All authorized trainers must possess a trainer card which includes an expiration date along with the name of the authorizing OSHA Training Institute (OTI) Education Center. To become an Authorized Outreach Trainer, interested individuals must meet industry safety experience requirements and complete a training course in the applicable OSHA standards and a trainer course to become authorized. Trainers must attend an update course every 4 years.
Summary of requirements
- Who teaches 10- and 30-hour courses?
- To be an authorized trainer to conduct 10- and 30-hour general industry outreach courses, you must complete OSHA’s Course #501, Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry. To be an authorized trainer to conduct 10- and 30-hour construction courses, you must complete OSHA’s Course #500, Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry.
- Once you have completed the appropriate trainer course, you are eligible to receive OSHA course completion cards to issue to the students who complete the 10- and 30-hour courses that you teach. The trainer course is mandatory for those trainers who conduct 10- and 30-hour courses and issue OSHA course completion cards to the students. (OSHA 10- and 30-hour courses themselves are not mandatory under any OSHA standards.)
- Only the OSHA Training Institute (OTI) and OTI Education Centers can offer OSHA courses. The #500 and #501 courses are offered at OTI Education Centers around the country.
- Why should employees take a 10- or 30-hour course?
- No OSHA standard requires employees to take 10- or 30-hour courses. However, it is not uncommon for private construction or service contracts to include requirements that only workers who have completed a 10- or 30-hour OSHA outreach course may be allowed to work on the site. It is up to the individual company to decide to include such a requirement in the contract.
- Several states require employees who work on certain publicly funded construction projects to have taken OSHA 10-hour construction courses.
- Even if the trainer is not authorized, completion of a 10- and 30-hour course is a good way to ensure that employees have basic safety training.
- What topics are covered?
- Trainers are required to present the training from a list of designated topics provided in OSHA’s Outreach Training Program Requirements and Procedures. For both the 10-hour and 30-hour training courses, there are topics that are mandatory and others that are elective or optional.
- Ideally, the course content should focus on the standards that are applicable at the employee’s job site.
- How should training be conducted?
- Course topics must be adequately covered. Trainers must spend sufficient time to cover the topic. The Outreach Training Program Procedures specify the amount of time to spend on each topic.
- Conduct the training in a language, and vocabulary, that the students understand. If using a translator to help conduct training, the translator must have a background in occupational safety and health. If translation is used, the class must cover twice the amount of time to allow for the translation.
- Students learn in different ways, and they benefit from multiple training styles. Supplement lectures with videos, demonstrations, case studies, workshops, and exercises to make the course more interesting and enjoyable. Video cannot comprise more than 25 percent of the time spent in training. Students must be provided with reference materials on each topic covered that highlight the key training points. At a minimum, each student must receive a fact sheet on each topic.
- Time spent covering course topics must be 10 or 30 class hours (60 minutes per hour) or more. Breaks and lunch periods are not included as class time.
- The courses are intended to be conducted by the trainer for small groups, in a classroom setting, in order to encourage employees to participate in discussions, ask questions, and share their knowledge and experiences. The authorized trainer must get prior approval from the trainer’s Authorizing Training Organization if the class size will exceed 40 students or be less than three students.
- 10-hour and 30-hour courses can be conducted in segments at times that are convenient to the workers’ or company’s schedule. Each segment must be at least an hour in length. In order for students to receive the course completion cards, the authorized trainer must complete the course within a six-month time period.
- How do students get OSHA course completion cards?
- When 10- or 30-hour classes are taught by OSHA authorized trainers, the trainers can give the trainees course completion cards from OSHA. The student course completion cards do not have any expiration date.
- Authorized trainers submit the appropriate OSHA Outreach Training Program Report to their Authorizing Training Organization to request course completion cards for their students.
- What records must the trainer keep?
- Authorized trainers are to keep class records for five years. The class records must include:
- Student sign-in sheets for each class day (with names typed or printed next to signatures),
- Student contact information,
- Topic outline (must include the exact timing of all topics and breaks),
- Class documentation sent in to obtain student course completion cards,
- Student course completion card numbers,
- Guest trainers (their names, topics covered, and their qualifications), and
- Additional authorized trainers (their names, topics covered, number of contact hours allocated to each topic, and a copy of their trainer card).
- Authorized trainers are to keep class records for five years. The class records must include:
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