['Walking Working Surfaces']
['Walking Working Surfaces']
04/28/2024
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The trainer (i.e., qualified person) must have a degree, certificate, or professional standing OR extensive knowledge, training, and experience to solve or resolve problems relating to the:
- Subject matter (e.g., how to use personal fall protection, designated areas, ladder safety systems, etc.),
- Work (e.g., working on a roof), or
- Project.
OSHA is clear that trainers do not have to possess a degree if they have the necessary knowledge, training, and experience to be qualified.
Also, OSHA says that a competent person is not a qualified person. The agency believes that competent personal “qualified” to train workers in all of the subjects and topics specified under 1910.30, “Training,” must have the capabilities of qualified persons. These capabilities extend beyond the current definition of a competent person. In other words, a qualified person has to meet a higher threshold of requirements then does a competent person.
Nonetheless, OSHA says they believe that many employers can draw upon the extensive knowledge and experience of their staffs to provide effective training under Subpart D, and that crew chiefs, supervisors, operations personnel, and other individuals at their facility — provided they have the necessary degree or extensive knowledge, training, and experience — can train workers. Employers don’t have to use qualified persons who are employees though. Employers are free to use outside personnel to also train your workers if, again, they are a “qualified person.”
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