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Course Titles and Descriptions

Accident Investigation

As much as you try to prevent them, accidents at work happen. Experts say that 11 workers die on the job every day in the United States— and an additional 5 million are injured over the course of a year. Those are staggering numbers, and we can do something about them.

Accident Investigation in California

Accidents in the workplace are unplanned but controllable events that cause injuries to workers, disruption of work, and property damage. In order to prevent accidents, the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CAL/OSHA) strongly encourages all employers to investigate all accidents in which a worker was hurt as well as close calls or near misses in which a worker might have been hurt if circumstances had been slightly different.

This course is designed to help all workplace employees in California identify the cause(s) of accidents and incidents and recognize the appropriate steps to take during the investigation process to prevent future accidents and incidents.

Active Shooter On-Site: What Every Employee Should Do

Recent events surrounding workplace shootings remind us how vulnerable we all are. All it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, there are measures you can take to not only limit the damage but also save precious lives both before and during these traumatic incidents. Because most incidents are over within minutes, you need to be prepared to react to the situation with speed. Quick decisions could mean the difference between life and death.

Acute Respiratory Illness Pandemics: Prevention and Response

For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But respiratory disease pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses or influenza, are very serious. They often involve new strains of viruses to which people have developed no immunity. These kinds of viruses can spread quickly and widely, and they can pose a major global health threat. This training course is for all non-healthcare employees and provides information about how to prepare for and stay safe during an acute respiratory illness pandemic.

Aerial Lift Safety

Aerial lifts are a common sight on construction projects, at oil and gas wells, or around industrial facilities. These machines usually have a wheeled drive section used to move the lift around, an extendable arm, and a basket for personnel to stand in. Aerial lifts are useful when a ladder or scaffold is unsafe to use or not feasible. In this module, we’ll discuss the limitations, features, hazards, and safe operating procedures of aerial lifts.

Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person

This session provides information about arc flash, shock hazards, and best safety practices for “unqualified persons” who work around electrical equipment but who lack the skills, knowledge, and training to work on or near exposed, energized electrical equipment. In this session, we’ll talk about the hazards and risks of working around exposed, energized electrical equipment. We’ll also discuss general safe work practices from the consensus standard, National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA, 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, that can help prevent arc flash incidents.

Asbestos Awareness

Asbestos is a well-known health hazard and is highly regulated. However, this was not always the case. There are numerous materials in existing buildings and structures that contain asbestos and having the ability to recognize them is important. This training session about asbestos awareness is designed for employees who may contact or work near asbestos-containing material (known as ACM), asbestos-containing building material (known as ACBM), or presumed asbestos-containing material (known as PACM), but do not disturb it as part of their normal work activities.

Avoiding Back Injuries

Back injuries are among the most common workplace injuries that cause lost days away from work. No matter what job you perform, you can injure your back on the job. Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to avoid back injuries and the lifetime of pain and medical bills that can come with them. In this training session, you’ll learn what risk factors and hazards expose you to back injuries and what you can do to help keep your back healthy and pain-free.

Avoiding Back Injuries (Refresher)

In this refresher training session, you’ll learn what risk factors and hazards expose you to back injuries and what you can do to help keep your back healthy and pain-free.

Avoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens

This session discusses how you might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens (BBP) and infectious diseases, how you can protect yourself from exposure, and how to clean up and properly dispose of blood or bodily fluids. Employees most likely to be exposed include first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident. Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or bodily fluids, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, to understand why you should not come in contact with them, and to understand that it is important to report spills of blood or bodily fluids so that they can be cleaned up safely.

Avoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens (Refresher)

This refresher session is intended for any employee who is likely to be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials, commonly abbreviated as OPIM, in their workplace.

Avoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens in California

This course is intended for any employee who is likely to be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) in the workplace.

This course discusses how you might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens and infectious diseases, how you can protect yourself from exposure, and how to clean up and properly dispose of blood and OPIM.

Employees most likely to be exposed include healthcare workers, first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident.

Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or OPIM, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, to understand why you should not come in contact with them, and to understand that it is important to report spills of blood or OPIM so that they can be cleaned up safely.

Avoiding Injuries in the Line of Fire

Construction is a high-hazard industry that comprises a wide range of activities involving demolition, alteration, and/or repair. Construction workers engage in many activities that may expose them to serious hazards, such as falling from rooftops, unguarded machinery, being struck by heavy equipment, and being exposed to the release of hazardous energy. These hazards put workers in harm’s way, which is also known as being “in the line of fire.”

This course provides information to help workers in the construction industry to identify, reduce, and eliminate “in the line of fire” hazards to avoid injuries and fatalities.

Workers will need additional training depending on the types of hazards they’re exposed to. For example, workers exposed to fall hazards will need to take a fall protection-specific course.

Basic First Aid for Medical Emergencies

Basic First Aid for Medical Emergencies (Refresher)

Battery Safety

This session provides information about battery safety and is intended for any employees who handle or use batteries in the workplace. We’ll discuss all the key issues associated with using batteries safely, including battery hazards, charging, and maintenance. This session focuses primarily on the large lead-acid batteries, as well as lithium-ion batteries used in a variety of industrial equipment.
The main objective of this session is to make sure you work safely with batteries on the job.

Biosafety in the Laboratory

No one wants to risk bringing a disease home from work, but for laboratory employees working with biological hazards like viruses, bacteria, select agents, and toxins, as well as blood, bodily fluids, and human tissues, that risk is a reality. Working with lab animals can also pose the threat of contamination. Fortunately, with the proper training and precautions, you can protect yourself and coworkers from these risks.
This course focuses on biosafety and provides the safe work practices laboratory workers must follow to reduce the health-related risks associated with working around biological materials.

Blasting and Explosives Safety

Few careers leave so little room for error as an explosives worker. Without meticulous attention to detail, just one distracted moment can result in death. As you can imagine, the blasting profession is a highly regulated field. The main purpose of today’s session is to help you keep your worksite safe while outlining the regulations for blasting and the use of explosives which are found at 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1926.900 to 1926.914 and which are enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA.

Bloodborne Pathogens: Healthcare Workers

Your job in health care involves helping others. But sometimes doing your job could put you at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. We will talk about what bloodborne pathogens are, how you might be exposed to them, the precautions you can take to successfully prevent exposure, and what to do if you are exposed. Fortunately, your chance of being exposed to bloodborne pathogens on the job is small. But keeping that risk to a minimum is important to us all.

California Guide to Working in Hot Indoor Conditions

This session provides information about how to recognize and prevent heat illnesses that develop when working in hot indoor environments. This training is intended for California employees who may work indoors in hot conditions, in workplaces subject to the state’s heat illness prevention standard for indoor workplaces. These workplaces might include foundries, manufacturing facilities, boiler rooms, warehouses, bakeries, kitchens, laundries, and even offices. Heat is not a hazard that should be taken lightly because it can lead to serious medical concerns. The main objective of this session is to teach you how to protect your health and safety when working in hot indoor conditions.

California Guide to Working in Hot Outdoor Environments

This session provides information about how to recognize and prevent heat illnesses that develop when working in hot conditions. This training is intended for California employees who may work outdoors in the heat. Heat is not a hazard that should be taken lightly because it can lead to serious medical concerns. The main objective of this session is to teach you how to protect your health and safety when working in hot conditions.

California Hazard Communication

This session will guide you through the Hazard Communication, or HazCom, Standard administered and enforced by the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA. This worker right-to-know standard requires your employer to make sure you are informed of the possible dangers of hazardous chemicals in your workplace and how to protect yourself from those hazards.

This California HazCom regulation applies to all employers in both the private and public sectors that have hazardous substances in their workplaces. It also applies to laboratories that provide quality control analyses for manufacturing or produce hazardous chemicals for commercial purposes.

California’s HazCom regulations have adopted the federal worker right-to-know requirements, as well as some requirements that are stricter than federal standards.

Chain saw Safety for Construction Workers

Chain saws are efficient and productive portable power tools used in construction and many other industries. They are also potentially dangerous if not used correctly and carefully. Proper operation and maintenance greatly reduces the risk for injury when using chain saws.

This course is for construction workers who use chain saws at their jobsite. It also explains chain saw hazards and safety features and describes best practices to prevent injuries and stay safe on the job.

Chemical Hygiene Plan

Working with or around chemicals in a laboratory setting may present serious hazards to your physical safety and health. However, these hazards can be reduced and controlled by following a few simple steps. Safety procedures for the facility where you work are outlined in a document called the chemical hygiene plan, or CHP, which is required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. In this training session, we will discuss the provisions of this plan, including the information and procedures that will protect you and others while working in the laboratory.

Class C UST Operator Training for Gas Station Attendants

Underground storage tank (UST) Class C operators are the first line of defense when it comes to responding to emergencies at gas stations. Do you know how to identify and respond to these emergencies quickly and effectively? This training course covers the actions employees designated as Class C operators must take in response to emergencies or alarms caused by spills or releases resulting from operation of UST systems. They are often gas station attendants and even convenience store staff. The course meets the federal operator training requirements identified in 40 CFR 280.242(c). We’ll discuss the basic safety features of a UST system, such as spill and overfill protection, release detection, and alarms. You’ll learn about the requirements for inspections, safe operations, emergency responsibilities, and how to respond effectively in emergencies related to USTs and gas station operations.

CMV Accident Procedures

Today, we’re going to talk about commercial motor vehicle, or CMV, accident procedures. Knowing what to do following an accident is essential. You can minimize the damage and potential liability caused by an accident if you take the right action immediately following the incident. Accidents are difficult and upsetting situations to deal with. Whether minor or major, they can have an impact on your future as a CMV driver. So you want to be sure you handle any incidents effectively and correctly. During this session, we’ll cover all the basics. But remember, you also need to be familiar with your carrier’s specific rules and procedures for dealing with accidents.

CMV Driver Qualifications in Interstate Commerce

In order to drive a CMV in interstate commerce, you must meet certain requirements set by the FMCSA. These are known as the DQ requirements. Their purpose is to make sure all CMV drivers are physically capable and have the knowledge and skills to operate a CMV safely. Both CMV drivers and motor carriers that employ them have responsibilities under the DQ requirements. This course will help CMV drivers operate a vehicle safely in the roadway.

CMV Driver Wellness

Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers’ wellness is a priority, as it directly impacts their ability to be safe and effective drivers. However, due to the nature of their job, CMV drivers often struggle with different aspects of wellness, like fatigue, stress, nutrition, exercise, and smoking.

This training course is designed to help CMV drivers identify which dimensions of wellness in their life may need changing and provide them with wellness strategies so they can be their healthiest selves and stay safe and productive on the job.

Combustible Dust Safety

Combustible dust is made up of fine particles that present a fire or explosion hazard when suspended in air under certain conditions. A dust explosion can cause serious injuries, fatalities, and destruction of buildings. Combustible dust hazards exist in a variety of industries including agriculture, chemical, food, grain, wood and lumber, paper, pulp and rubber, furniture and textiles, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and metals processing, and recycling operations.
This course is for employees who work in these industries and other work environments prone to dust and will help to identify combustible dust hazards and ways to prevent injury and illness from fires, flash fires, deflagration, and explosions.

Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspections

Commercial motor vehicle, or CMV, inspections are essential to preventing accidents and injuries. Our organization is required by law to inspect, repair, and maintain all CMVs so that they’re always roadworthy and safe to operate. To help our organization comply with the rules, you need to understand the requirements of CMV inspection regulations and be familiar with any inspection-related duties that you have as part of your job.

Communicating in a Global Workplace

Today, we’re going to talk about communicating in a global workplace. More and more, we are all interconnected by the Internet and 24-hour-a-day worldwide news coverage. We are also linked by transportation systems that make intercontinental travel quick and easy, and by a global economy and markets. Despite differences and conflicts, we have truly become one world. And to do business, we have in many ways become a global workplace, with companies from all over the world meeting and competing in worldwide markets. As a country, the United States continues to be a melting pot, where people come from all over the world to live and work. No doubt you work with people from other countries, cultures, and traditions. In this session, you will learn how to communicate effectively in the global workplace and interact successfully in a diverse working environment with all kinds of people.

Communicating Up: How to Talk to High-Level Management

The main objective of this course is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management.

Communication Between All Ages in the Workplace

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate better with all generations in your workplace. By the time it’s over, you’ll understand what makes your fellow employees “tick” and be able to identify some of their characteristics; understand and respect your cross-generational coworkers; recognize some bad habits that could be creating conflict; enhance your communication skills on the job; and become familiar with some techniques to help you communicate better.

Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety

Compressed gases are used in millions of products and processes across a wide variety of industries. But did you know that these gases are considered hazardous materials because they are stored under high pressure and can cause fires, explosions, and suffocation if not handled properly?
This online training course discusses how to work safely with compressed gas cylinders that are used in general industry workplaces and how to protect against the hazards they pose. This course does not address specific requirements for welding or construction. At the end of this training session, you will be able to recognize the common hazards of compressed gases; identify compressed gases by the labels; safely transport, handle, and store compressed gas cylinders; safely use cylinders and regulators and check for leaks; and implement safe practices for working with specific compressed gases.

Compressed Gas Cylinders in the Laboratory

Compressed gases are commonly used in laboratory operations. However, these gases present real hazards. They can lead to fires and explosions, toxic contaminations that adversely affect the health of workers, and even widespread public health emergencies that may lead to an evacuation if not handled, used, or stored properly.

Laboratory employees are responsible for using these gases safely. This means not only understanding the qualities and hazards of the gases themselves, but also learning the proper procedures for handling, using, and storing the cylinders containing these gases.

This training session focuses on working safely with compressed gases and cylinders in the laboratory.

Conflict Resolution for Employees

This course is about conflict resolution. We all probably experienced conflict at some times. Conflict is a sharp disagreement. It generally involves the clash of ideas, interests, or personalities. During this session we’re going to show you some basic conflict resolution skills and techniques you can use to manage the conflicts in your workplace more effectively.

Conflict Resolution for Supervisors

When you know how to resolve workplace conflicts effectively, you can save time and turn potentially destructive situations into positive, productive opportunities for growth and development within your work group. Additionally, when you know how to build consensus among employees, you can enhance motivation and cooperation, as well as create an atmosphere in which agreement generally prevails over conflict.

Contractor Safety

In today’s training session, we’ll review the key elements of a typical host employer’s safety program. Contractors will be required to follow the host employer’s safety program while performing their work. Familiarity with the host employer’s site and safety program is crucial to reducing the risk of injury.

Contributing to a Culture of Safety

No matter your position within an organization, you play a role in its safety culture. Everyone has the power to choose whether they will support or counteract the development of a culture of safety. This session will provide ways for you to contribute to a culture of safety within your organization.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Accept responsibility for building a culture of safety.
• Identify and report unsafe conditions.
• Intervene when coworkers are engaged in unsafe behavior.

Crane Rigging

Cranes are used in a variety of industries to lift and move large and heavy objects. But if a crane is not properly set up, rigged, and balanced, it can tip over or drop its load, causing injuries or fatalities to workers below and resulting in significant property damage. Proper rigging is an essential step to preventing these incidents. This training course identifies the basics of safe crane rigging, including hazards to be aware of, safe practices to follow, and actions to avoid.

This course is for crane riggers and workers who have crane rigging responsibilities in general industry. This course can also be used as awareness training for employees who work around cranes, but do not have any crane rigging duties.

Crane Rigging in Construction

This training session focuses on safe rigging for crane and derrick operations at construction sites. A critical job for the safety of any crane or derrick operation is rigging the load. A poor rigging job can lead to injured workers, property damage, or other serious consequences. Rigging is the most time consuming of any crane operation and represents the greatest hazard potential. In this training session we’ll cover the fundamentals of rigging cranes and derricks to safely hoist loads and discuss safe work practices that will protect you from injuries related to rigging.

Creating a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Psychological safety is a critical element of a high-performing organization and has been shown to reduce employee turnover, increase productivity, and improve safety and security. This module is designed for people leaders and provides the knowledge and skills necessary to create higher levels of psychological safety in their teams.

Defensive Driving for Noncommercial Motorists

Did you know that motor vehicle accidents are the most common form of death of all workplace fatalities? And vehicle accidents, injuries, and fatalities outside of work are also on the rise due to all different kinds of distracted driving and other hazards. Whether you drive on the job or just commute to work, it’s important that you stay on your toes and drive defensively to keep yourself—and other drivers and pedestrians—safe. During this training session, we’re going to talk about some techniques that will help you avoid driving accidents and injuries.

Defensive Driving: Commercial Motor Vehicles

This training session on defensive driving has been designed for drivers of commercial motor vehicles, or CMVs. CMVs are vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating, or GVWR, or a gross combined weight rating, or GCWR, of 10,001 pounds or more combined cargo and vehicle. Every year, CMV operators log millions of miles on the road. They are a vital part of the economy. The safe operation of CMVs ultimately falls to you as an operator.

Delegation for Project Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you how to use delegation as a core tool in managing your project. By the time this session, is over you will be able to recognize the role of delegation in helping a project succeed, learn why delegating is valuable, understand the delegation process, realize the importance of giving and receiving feedback, and understand factors that put delegation at risk of failing.

Dipping, Coating, and Cleaning Operations

This course provides information for employees performing tasks that may expose them to hazards like dipping, coating, and cleaning operations. The general term “dipping and coating” covers a wide variety of operations, including paint dipping, degreasing, and electroplating. When you work in dipping or coating operations, you need to understand the hazards and corresponding precautions to minimize risk factors and reduce accidents, injuries, or illnesses at work.

Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know

Fires, extreme weather, hazardous chemical spills and releases, acts of terrorism, pandemics, explosions, and active shooter situations. We don’t like to think about disasters happening, but the unfortunate reality is, they do happen―often bringing with them destruction, injuries, and sometimes even death. While we know we can’t stop many of these disasters from happening, there are steps you can take to both help prevent some of them and reduce the catastrophic results of others.

This course is for all employees and provides the information you need to successfully plan for and respond to disasters.

Disaster Planning: What Supervisors Need to Know

It’s essential for supervisors to know how to properly plan for responding to workplace disasters and other emergencies in order to prevent employee injuries, minimize property damage, and minimize the disruption of business operations.

This course focuses on the information supervisors need to carry out their duties under their facility’s emergency action plan, or EAP, and examine key issues such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, requirements; emergency evacuation procedures; employee training; and emergency response assignments.

DOT Alcohol and Drug Training for Supervisors

Every year, many fatalities and injuries result from crashes involving large trucks and buses. While vehicle problems and driver behaviors such as speeding or fatigue are the most frequently cited factors involved in these crashes, studies indicate that operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or both, can increase crash risk anywhere from two- to sixfold. Today, we will provide you with the information about the regulations, alcohol, and controlled substance testing regulations that you need to know in order to do your job effectively. It will also give you the tools you need to enforce the DOT regulations and the organization’s alcohol and drug policy. Be sure to ask your supervisor or trainer if you do not understand any of the information presented in the program.

Drug and Alcohol Testing: What Supervisors Need to Know

Substance abuse in the workplace threatens safety and costs businesses billions of dollars every year. Drug testing programs can help minimize these costs. Frontline supervisors play a key role in drug testing programs by identifying substance abuse and impairment on the job. By the end of the training, you will be able to identify the situations when drug and alcohol testing may be used, recognize the signs and symptoms of substance abuse and intoxication on the job, determine when a drug test may be needed based on reasonable suspicion, assess an incident to determine whether a postaccident drug test is necessary, avoid using drug and alcohol testing as a form of discipline or retaliation against employees, and fulfill your responsibilities under the drug and alcohol testing program in a manner that protects safety while treating all employees with respect.

Earthquake Preparedness

Effective Decision-Making Strategies for Employees

Making good decisions on the job is important for many reasons. No matter what your job, the decisions you make affect your productivity, the quality of your work, and your ability to meet performance goals. In a larger sense, the decisions you make often affect your co-workers and your department. They may also have an impact on customer satisfaction and the success of the organization. There’s a lot riding on the decisions you make every day. An added challenge is that many of your decisions must be made quickly. The purpose of this training session is to help you make the best decisions possible every workday, even under pressure.

Effective Meetings: How-to for Supervisors

This course is about planning and conducting effective meetings. Poorly planned and conducted meetings often serve little purpose and waste valuable resources. Just consider the cost of a meeting involving 10 people that runs for half an hour. That adds up to 5 hours’ worth of salaries and time taken away from other productive work. Yet meetings also can be an excellent way to handle many important aspects of your business. Knowing how to plan and lead focused, efficient meetings is, therefore, an important supervisory skill.

Effective Safety Communication

In order to build a strong safety culture, effective safety communication is essential. This session is designed for supervisors; managers; and environment, health, and safety, or EHS, professionals to learn more about how to communicate about safety in a way that enables a strong culture of safety within their organizations.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Summarize how communication influences safety climate and safety culture.
• Generate appropriate safety messages for the intended audience.
• Choose the best medium for communicating safety messages to a particular audience.
• Use effective strategies for facilitating safety meetings and toolbox talks.
• Employ clear and respectful messaging, active listening, and appropriate body language in safety-related conversations with employees.
• Recall methods for communicating safety messages through social media.
• Recognize common causes of communication breakdowns.

Electrical Safety for Unqualified Construction Workers

Workers at construction sites who operate electric-powered machinery, tools, and equipment, and others who do maintenance or service work on or near electrical systems, but aren’t qualified to perform electrical work, face the risk of contact with electricity that can cause life-threatening shock, burns, fires, falls, and electrocution.

This course is for workers exposed to electricity at construction workplaces, but who aren’t authorized or qualified to work directly on or near exposed, energized electrical systems or parts. This course is designed to help workers unfamiliar with or untrained in the technical aspects of electricity to recognize electrical hazards and safe practices to avoid injury at the construction site.

Electrical Safety for Unqualified Workers in California

Workers who operate machines and electric-powered tools and equipment, and others who do maintenance or service work on or near electrical systems, are exposed to electrical hazards that can result in burns, shocks, and electrocution. These types of workers are considered “unqualified persons,” which means they aren’t trained or qualified to work directly on or near exposed, energized electrical systems or parts.

This course is for unqualified persons in California who have strict limitations when working with and around electrical equipment and aren’t allowed to perform electrical maintenance and repair. This course is designed to assist workers who are unfamiliar with or untrained in the technical aspects of electricity to recognize hazards and safe work practices to avoid injury on the job.

Additional training is required for workers who are qualified to work on or near exposed, energized electrical equipment and wiring.

Electrical Safety: Unqualified Person

Workers who operate machines and electric-powered tools and equipment, and others who do maintenance or service work on or near electrical systems, but are not qualified to perform electrical work, face the risk of contact with electricity that can cause life-threatening shock, burns, fires, falls, and electrocution.
This course is for workers exposed to electricity in general industry workplaces, from a janitor operating a vacuum to heating and cooling system technicians, but who are not authorized or qualified to work directly on or near exposed, energized electrical systems or parts. It’s designed to help workers unfamiliar with or untrained in the technical aspects of electricity to recognize electrical hazards and safe practices to avoid injury on the job.
Additional training is required for workers who are qualified to work on or near exposed, energized electrical equipment and wiring.

Electrical Safety: Unqualified Person (Refresher)

This is a Refresher course for Unqualified Electrical Persons work around electrical equipment, Persons who may be exposed to electricity in general industry workplaces, but who are not authorized or qualified to work directly on or near exposed, energized electrical systems or parts. This course will provide highlights on electrical safety hazards for unqualified persons and provide those practices to avoid injury on the job.

Additional training is required for persons who have not taken the full course in Electrical Safety for the Unqualified Person.

Emergency Action and Fire Prevention

Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Workers

Unfortunately, workplace emergencies are a fact of life. Fortunately, they don’t happen often. But when they do, the result can be very bad for us and for our patients. To minimize injuries, loss of life, and damage to the facility, we must all be prepared to act effectively in a variety of possible emergency situations.

Encouraging Employee Input

Organizations grow and prosper when they encourage-and act upon-employee input. Your employees-the people who make the products, serve the customers, and perform all those essential functions-often have valuable insights into ways to save money, improve our operations, and enhance our competitive advantage. Today, we’ll focus on ways to tap into this rich source of ideas for improvement.

EPA Inspections

Even facilities with good relationships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and good compliance histories may get inspected. Although you may not be able to avoid the “knock on the door,” you can avoid being caught in an enforcement trap if you know what to expect and make sure you’re prepared to deal effectively with an EPA inspection. It’s critical for you to do everything possible to prepare for and be responsive during all the stages of the inspection process. Your actions may largely determine the impact of the inspection on your business and whether the EPA will pursue an enforcement action. The main objective of this session is to prepare you for EPA inspections at your facility.

Ergonomics and Other Wellness Tips for Remote Workers

Many home office workers report work-related musculoskeletal disorders-or MSDs-every year. For some, the problem becomes so severe that they suffer a lot of pain and have to take time off from work for treatment and recovery. But the good news is that you don’t have to be one of those who develop MSDs on the job. By understanding basic ergonomic principles and applying them to your job, you can minimize MSD risk factors, avoid stresses and strains on your body, and keep healthy and safe as you work. The main objective of this course is to cover the topic of home office ergonomics from hazards to precautions so that you can avoid developing work-related MSDs. We will also discuss other tips for general wellness while working from home.

Ergonomics for Healthcare Workers

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs, are among the most frequently reported causes of lost or restricted work time. Workers in many different industries and occupations can be exposed to MSD risk factors on the job. Fortunately, work-related MSDs can be prevented. By understanding basic ergonomic principles and applying them to your job, you can minimize MSD risk factors, avoid strains on your body, and reduce your risk of injury. This session is designed to assist all workers in healthcare settings, including care providers, support personnel, and administrative staff, in preventing MSDs.

Ergonomics for the Laboratory

Have you ever come home from work with a sore back, stiff neck, pain in your shoulders, pain or stiffness in your wrist or hands, or aching feet from standing for long periods? Most of us have experienced these aches and pains and may think little of them. However, if allowed to continue, these minor conditions can become severe, leading to chronic pain, lost work time, and even debilitation. We need to take the aches and pains that occur at work seriously and start doing all we can to prevent them. That’s what this training session on Ergonomics for the Laboratory is all about.

Ergonomics in California

This course provides information for employees in California about how to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). MSDs are among the most frequently reported causes of lost work time. As a worker who is at high risk of developing MSDs — repetitive motion injuries (RMIs) in particular — you need to understand basic ergonomics to minimize risk factors, avoid strains on your body, and reduce your risk of injury at work.

In compliance with California regulations, this training is modified by your employer to provide site-specific details, including information about the company’s ergonomics program.

Ergonomics: Industrial

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs, are among the most frequently reported causes of lost or restricted work time. Workers in many different industries and occupations can be exposed to MSD risk factors at work. Fortunately, work-related MSDs can be prevented. By understanding basic ergonomic principles and applying them to your job, you can minimize MSD risk factors, avoid strains on your body, and reduce your risk of injury.

Excavation Safety for Construction Workers

The main objective of this session is to help you learn how important it is to work safely in excavations or trenches. At the end of the training session, you will understand preventive measures required by law, your role in working safely, your employer’s obligations to protect you, hazardous atmospheres, and types of protective systems.

Exit Routes: Supervisors

If you are a plant manager, a supervisor, or another employee designated as an emergency evacuation coordinator, you will be involved in evacuating employees from your facility in the event of an emergency. To properly fulfill that responsibility, you need to know what constitutes an exit route that meets regulatory requirements, the number and location of exits, how to activate an evacuation alarm, and the procedures that must be followed to ensure the safe evacuation of employees.

Extreme Weather Driving for All Drivers

This course provides information for drivers in all industries about how to safely operate a vehicle in extreme weather.
Driving under difficult weather conditions is both challenging and hazardous. As a driver, you need to understand the specific hazards of different weather conditions and adjust your driving to those conditions. By doing so, you can avoid accidents and breakdowns and reach your destination safely in any kind of weather.

Eye Protection

There were more than 18,000 reported eye injuries at work in a recent year in which the injury resulted in the loss of at least 1 day of work. More than half of those injuries involved an object or a particle getting rubbed or abraded on the eye. In over a third of the cases, an object like a piece of metal or equipment like a power tool struck the eye. The injuries could have been avoided with the appropriate eye protection device in most cases. This training module is for workers who are required to wear eye protection because they are or may be exposed to flying particles or objects, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, molten metal, or hazardous light radiation.

Fall Protection in Construction

This course provides important information on fall protection at construction sites. Anyone who is exposed to potential fall hazards of 6 feet or greater must be trained to identify these hazards and how to properly use fall protection.

This course covers general fall protection in construction topics but doesn’t discuss certain specific activities covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, such as stairways, ladders, electric power lines, and steel erection work.

Final-Mile Delivery Safety

Fire Extinguishers Safe Use and Handling

Fire Extinguishers Safe Use and Handling (Refresher)

Fleet Safety: Tips and Considerations

Fleet safety is a core element of any business that provides vehicles for employee use. There are over 8 million fleet vehicles on the road today. This training covers regulations and best practices for employers that conduct business using fleet vehicles or rented vehicles or allow employees to use personal vehicles to conduct company business. This course also covers businesses that operate commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).

Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety

Forklifts are essential pieces of equipment that help us move mountains of heavy materials. But forklifts are also dangerous—especially to people working or walking near them. Stay alert and take proper precautions to protect your safety. Otherwise, you could be seriously injured or even killed by a forklift. This course is for pedestrians and employees working around forklifts.

Gas Safety for Construction Workers

This presentation is about knowing what dangerous gases are and how to protect yourself from them at work. The main objective of this session is to make sure you, as a construction worker, know the broad scope of gas safety and what is required to comply with the law.

Good Housekeeping

This session is designed for all employees. Too many people think good housekeeping in the workplace just means sweeping up at the end of the shift. But good housekeeping is a lot more than that. It is the foundation of an effective accident prevention program. A neat, clean, and orderly workplace is a safe workplace.

Grounds Maintenance Safety

Grounds maintenance workers keep the grounds of houses, businesses, universities, parks, and public infrastructure attractive, orderly, and healthy for a pleasant outdoor environment. Jobs include lawn installation and care, landscaping, planting and caring for trees and shrubs, and pesticide application, and some work involves building or repairing walkways and retaining walls and installing lighting or sprinkler systems. The work can be dangerous. Deaths related to the work are uncommon, but it does result in injuries and illnesses that can be prevented with proper training and practice of safety measures.

Handling Medical Waste

Healthcare facilities, such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, dental practices, blood banks, veterinary hospitals/clinics, and medical research facilities and laboratories, generate medical wastes. As a healthcare worker, you may be exposed to medical wastes on the job. For example, patient care workers, housekeepers, maintenance personnel, and others may all be involved in handling medical wastes or at least come in contact with these materials.
Some medical wastes can be hazardous to your health. This course is designed to explain the hazards of medical wastes, the precautions you can take to protect yourself from harmful exposures, and the procedures you must follow to protect yourself and your facility coworkers from the hazards of medical wastes.

Hazard Communication and GHS: What Employees Need to Know

This session discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, Hazard Communication Standard, or HazCom.

The standard, which is also referred to as the worker right to know standard, makes sure that you know all about the possible dangers of hazardous chemicals that you use in your job and gives you the information to protect yourself from those hazards. Your employer is required to provide you with this information for the hazardous chemicals present in your workplace.

During this session, we’re going to talk about how to recognize hazards, how to protect yourself, and how to interpret critical information designed to make your workplace safer.

Hazard Communication and GHS: What Employees Need to Know (Refresher)

This session discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, Hazard Communication Standard, or HazCom.

HazCom describes what employers must do to inform employees about chemical hazards in the workplace. Employers must provide you with:

• A written HazCom program that explains how the information is communicated to you.
• A list of the hazardous chemicals used in your workplace so you know that you might be asked to use a potentially hazardous chemical. The list is included in the written HazCom program.
• Safety data sheets, or SDSs, for each type of hazardous chemical. These contain detailed information about the chemical, its possible hazards, and ways to protect yourself.
• Labels on containers that identify and describe the chemical hazards; and
• Training that teaches you about the HazCom Standard, tells you how to read and understand the information on SDSs and chemical labels, and shows you ways you can protect yourself against possible hazards.

The HazCom standard, which is also referred to as the worker right to know standard, makes sure that you know all about the possible dangers of hazardous chemicals that you use in your job and gives you the information to protect yourself from those hazards.

Hazard Communication and GHS: What Supervisors Need to Know

This session discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, Hazard Communication, or HazCom, Standard.

The standard, which is also referred to as the worker right-to-know standard, makes sure that you know all about the possible dangers of the hazardous chemicals used in your workplace and gives you the information to protect yourself from those hazards. Your employer is required to provide you with this information, and as a supervisor, you must ensure that employees are properly informed and equipped to deal with the hazardous chemicals they use in their jobs.

During this session, we’re going to talk about how to recognize hazards, how to protect yourself, and how to interpret critical information designed to make your workplace safer.

Hazard Communication for Healthcare Workers

Hazard communication is a requirement of state and federal law. The standard, which is also referred to as the worker right to know standard, makes sure that you know all about the possible dangers of hazardous chemicals that you may come into contact with as a healthcare worker and gives you the information to protect yourself from those hazards. Your employer is required to provide you with this information for the hazardous chemicals present in your workplace.

Hazardous Materials Spill Cleanup

Many of the chemicals you work with may be dangerous and even deadly. That’s why all spills, no matter how small, must be taken seriously and handled without hesitation. You need to know how to react. By acting quickly and effectively, you can protect yourself and others and help prevent a spill from getting out of control. To handle spills of hazardous materials, or hazmat, your worksite has developed procedures to address and control this emergency situation. Today, we’ll review the necessary cleanup procedures for hazardous spills, and we’ll also take a look at the air monitoring process that plays an important part in the cleanup operation.

Hazardous Materials Transportation

Today, we’re going to talk about the safe transportation of hazardous materials, which are also referred to as HAZMAT. The Department of Transportation, or DOT, says that most incidents involving the release of hazardous materials are the result of human error. This means that most incidents can be prevented if you know proper safety procedures and follow the requirements of the HAZMAT transportation regulations. The more you know about how to transport hazardous materials, the safer you’ll be personally and the safer the shipments you’re involved with will be, as well.

Hazardous Waste Container Management

Containers are the most common unit used to store and transport hazardous waste. They are often preferred over tanks and surface impoundments largely due to the ease with which they can be handled and their relative inexpensiveness. Containers are a good option for hazardous waste handlers who want to store, transport, and dispose of hazardous waste without changing the unit. Before regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA, containers were frequently mismanaged or abandoned. Some of the worst environmental disasters associated with hazardous wastes were caused by the failure of containers. When the abandoned containers became weathered or corroded, the hazardous contents were released, posing a far-reaching danger to human health and the environment. Additionally, many containers were not properly labeled or not labeled at all. As such, they posed hazards due to their “unknown” contents. Consequently, properly managing containers of hazardous waste is a critical part of the RCRA regulatory system for handling hazardous wastes safely, while protecting the environment and the health and well-being of workers and of the public. Each handler of containers of hazardous waste plays an important role in this process.

Hazardous Waste Emergency Response: Generators and TSDFs

Emergency situations involving damage to property or injury to co-workers can and do occur at facilities that handle hazardous wastes. This training session will focus on emergency response procedures required under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, regulations for personnel at hazardous waste large quantity generators, or LQGs, and hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs. In addition, this session will address the actions you can take to help prevent or mitigate an emergency’s often devastating effects and describe the various emergencies that could potentially occur at your workplace and how to respond to them. The EPA regulations address the hazardous waste facility preparedness and prevention requirements for emergencies at 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for LQGs at 40 CFR 262.250 to 262.256, for TSDFs at 40 CFR 264.30 to 264.37, and for hazardous waste small quantity generators, SQGs, at 40 CFR 262.16(b)(8) and 40 CFR 262.16(b)(9). The session also applies to SQGs, although these generators are not required to have formal written training programs for their employees or a written contingency plan. Note that this session does not address the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, hazardous waste operations and emergency response, or HAZWOPER, or hazard communication requirements.

Hazardous Waste Facility Operations and Maintenance

Working in a hazardous waste facility exposes you to numerous safety and health hazards. To prevent accidents and injuries, you must perform your job correctly and carefully. You must also understand the relationship between your job function and other functions within the facility.

While this course focuses on the responsibilities of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or (TSDFs), and large quantity generators, or LQGs, of hazardous waste, all employees involved in hazardous waste management should be familiar with routine facility operations, waste acceptance policies and procedures, equipment maintenance requirements, and emergency preparedness, prevention, and response.

This training session discusses all these important topics to familiarize you with a facility’s hazardous waste management program and its emergency procedures so you can stay safe on the job.

Hazardous Waste Introductory Training

This training course covers the principal elements of the regulatory requirements for how generators and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs, must manage hazardous waste in the workplace. The course describes the different types of hazardous waste and how they must be identified, stored, inspected, and documented, as well as the actions workers should take to protect themselves and the workplace from the dangers of hazardous waste.

Hazardous Waste Manifests

Any generator that offers hazardous wastes for transportation for off-site treatment, storage, or disposal must prepare a manifest using a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest (EPA Form 8700-22). Although the hazardous waste generator bears the responsibility for creating the manifest, transporters and receiving facilities also play a key role. Training is necessary to ensure compliance with this shipping paper that is the key to documenting the safe and compliant transport of hazardous waste. Those responsible for signing a manifest or for completing any part of this specialized shipping paper should receive training so that they understand and can competently perform their role.
Regulations regarding hazardous waste manifests are found for hazardous waste generators at 40 CFR 262 Subpart B; for transporters at 40 CFR 263 Subpart B; and for receiving facilities, including treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs, at 40 CFR 264/265 Subpart E.

This course will describe how to properly complete a manifest, help you know what additional documents may need to be attached to the manifest, and explain how parts of the manifest are distributed.

Hazardous Waste Recordkeeping Requirements for Generators

Today, we’re going to talk about hazardous waste recordkeeping requirements. There are numerous recordkeeping requirements in the hazardous waste regulations. The importance of proper recordkeeping is best illustrated by the fact that many of the most common citations for violations of the regulations involve a lack of proper recordkeeping.

During this session, you’ll learn about the records that must be kept, as well as records that are prudent to keep, although they may not be required by the regulations.

This session is directed toward hazardous waste large quantity generators, or LQGs, and small quantity generators, or SQGs. Hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs, have similar, but in some cases, additional requirements, but they will not be covered in this session.

Hazardous Waste Safety in the Laboratory

Hazardous waste safety—what you need to know to make sure that safety is not compromised in any operations involving these materials in the laboratory

Hazardous Waste: Health Effects

Today, we’re going to talk about the health effects of hazardous waste. Hazardous wastes are composed of substances that can be harmful to your health. Exposure to some hazardous wastes can cause serious illness, injury, or even death. However, these materials can be handled and disposed of safely if proper procedures are carefully followed. This training session will introduce you to the hazards of hazardous wastes and the steps to take to prevent harmful exposures. With adequate information about hazardous waste, you can minimize risks and protect your health on the job.

Hazmat Transportation: Hazardous Materials Table

Hazmat Transportation: Packaging Safety

The federal hazardous materials, or hazmat, transportation regulations were developed to ensure the safe shipment of hazardous materials. Today, we’re going to talk about a very important aspect of safe hazmat transportation: packaging. Hazmat must be properly packaged so it doesn’t leak or create some other hazard during transportation. The U.S. Department of Transportation, or DOT, says that most incidents involving the release of hazardous materials are the result of human error, including improper packaging. Because you are involved in packaging hazmat, the more you know about how to package it for transport, the safer the shipments of hazmat you’re involved with will be.

Hazmat Transportation: Security Awareness

The Department of Transportation (DOT) requirements at 49 CFR 172.704 Subpart H are designed to enhance the security of hazardous materials transported in commerce. As part of these requirements, shippers and carriers of certain hazardous materials must develop and implement security plans. Also, all shippers and carriers of hazardous materials must ensure that their employee training programs include a component on security. This course covers Hazmat transportation security awareness training.

Hazmat Transportation: Security Plans

According to the American Society of Safety Engineers, every day in the United States there are approximately 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials (hazmat) transported by highway, rail, air, and vessels. The U.S. Department of Transportation, or DOT, requires each hazmat employee to be provided with the first and, in some situations, both of the following types of security training in order to protect people and the environment from hazmat releases:

• Security awareness training
• In-depth security training

The first, “security awareness training,” must provide an awareness of security risks associated with hazmat transportation and methods designed to enhance transportation security. This training must include a component covering how to recognize and respond to possible security threats. Described at 49 Code of Federal Regulations, or CFR,172.704(a)(4), this training is required for each hazmat employee and is covered by the Simplify Compliance TrainingToday® course “Hazmat Transportation Security Awareness.” “In-depth security training,” the second type of DOT security training, is described at 49 CFR 172.704(a)(5). This training is required if certain types and quantities of hazmat, as specified in 49 CFR 172.800, are transported in commerce. Offerors and transporters of this specific hazmat must have a “security plan” whose elements are outlined in the DOT regulations at 49 CFR 172.800 to 172.822. Employees must be trained on the elements of this security plan and its implementation. It must include company security objectives, organizational security structure, specific security procedures, specific security duties and responsibilities for each employee, and specific actions to be taken by each employee in the event of a security breach. The training session you are currently participating in is part of the in-depth security training.

HAZWOPER Facility Operations

As a new worker at a hazardous waste site or treatment, storage, and disposal facility, or TSDF, you need to learn about the safety and health risks associated with facility operations. This course provides an overview of the HAZWOPER regulatory standard’s safety requirements for hazardous waste facility operations, the types of potential hazardous exposures, medical surveillance requirements, the practices and procedures to reduce the risk of an incident or exposure to a hazard, the hazard controls deployed to help ensure safety, and the proper use of personal protective equipment, or PPE.

HAZWOPER: Donning, Doffing, and Decontamination

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response standard, known as HAZWOPER provides guidelines for workers to safely handle hazardous materials in situations such as cleaning up or removing hazardous substances from a site or an emergency response to a hazardous substance release. The HAZWOPER standard, found at 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 1910.120(b) requires that employers develop and implement a safety and health program. This includes a site-specific safety and health plan for their employees that addresses, among other requirements, an emergency response plan for “safe and effective responses to emergencies, including the necessary personal protective equipment, (PPE), and other equipment”.
When responding to incidents involving the accidental release of hazardous substances, it’s often necessary for response personnel to wear self-contained breathing apparatuses (SCBAs) and fully encapsulating suits to protect against contamination from toxic environments during the decontamination process. A routine of donning and doffing your protective suit must be established and practiced frequently.

This course will explain the basics of donning and doffing and the important procedures of the decontamination process.

HAZWOPER: First Responder Awareness Level

Trainees will learn to understand their role as a first responder and the company’s emergency response plan; identify hazardous substances and know the risks if they are released or spilled; recognize a hazardous release or spill and potential outcomes; report the spill or release by calling for help, notifying others of the chemical spill or release, and helping coordinate an evacuation. Duration: 19 minutes.

HAZWOPER: Medical Surveillance

Today, we’re going to talk about the medical surveillance program required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response standard, known as HAZWOPER. The HAZWOPER standard provides guidelines for workers to safely handle hazardous materials in situations such as cleaning up or removing hazardous substances from a site or an emergency response to a hazardous substance release.

When OSHA developed this regulation, it realized that handling hazardous waste is a difficult job that may expose you to many hazards, among them toxic chemicals, safety hazards, biological hazards, and radiation. OSHA’s HAZWOPER medical surveillance program is essential to assess and monitor your health and fitness both before employment and during the course of work, and to provide you and your coworkers with emergency and other medical treatment as needed. You can find the HAZWOPER requirements for its medical surveillance program in the Code of Federal Regulations, CFR, at 29 CFR 1910.120(f).

HAZWOPER: On-Site Safety Considerations

This course discusses the on-site safety considerations required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standard.
When OSHA developed the HAZWOPER regulation, it realized that handling hazardous waste is a difficult job that may expose you to many hazards that you need to know about before you work with any materials.
You can find the HAZWOPER safety requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 29 CFR 1910.120.

HAZWOPER: PPE for Emergency Response

“Personal protective equipment, or PPE, provides a barrier between you and the hazards of your job. The right PPE, properly used and maintained, can protect you from the hazards involved in the emergency response tasks you perform—and it can help ensure that you are able to go home safe and healthy at the end of your shift. But for PPE to protect you properly in emergency situations involving hazardous substances or other safety and health hazards, you have to know how to select the right equipment for the job, understand its capabilities and limitations, use it properly, and remove it safely. We’ll discuss all these important issues and more in this training session.
The main objective of this session is to provide you with the information you need to know about emergency response PPE so that you can use this important equipment properly to protect your health and safety when responding to releases or substantial threats of releases of hazardous substances.”

Hexavalent Chromium Safety: General Industry

Generated by industrial processes such as plating and pickling passivation, hexavalent chromium, a man-made form of the metal chromium, can be found in the form of chromate, chromic acid, sodium bichromate dehydrate, and cadmium chromate. This session is intended for those employees whose work involves exposure or potential exposure to this substance.

HIPAA Privacy Rule: What Healthcare Workers Need to Know

HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA was enacted in 1996 to increase access to and the efficiency of the healthcare system in the United States. One very important aspect of HIPAA is its Privacy Rule, which protects individual’s medical records and other health-related information. This rule is especially important in the electronic age when so much information is readily available to so many. HIPAA requires that the Department of Health and Human Services publicize standards for the electronic exchange, privacy, and security of health information. Today, we’ll explain what the HIPAA Privacy Rule is, why it is important, and how it helps protect your personal health information as well as the health information of patients in your facility.

Home Safety

Accidents at home are the leading cause of injury-involved accidents. These accidents occur because there are no required rules to follow in the home, unlike the OSHA regulations we follow in the workplace. Many at-home injuries can be prevented if appropriate preventive measures are taken to eliminate or minimize hazards. This session is intended for all employees.

Hotel Housekeeping in California: How to Prevent Musculoskeletal Injuries

Housekeepers, room attendants, and cleaners in hotels and other lodging establishments perform many of the same tasks multiple times a day. Some of these repetitive tasks can cause musculoskeletal injuries, or MSIs. An MSI is either an acute onetime injury or cumulative trauma from wear and tear on bones, muscles, joints, nerves, and other soft-tissue parts of the body.
This course provides hotel housekeeping workers and their supervisors in California with the information they need to perform these repetitive or physically stressful tasks efficiently and without injury or discomfort. The course covers the use of cleaning tools and equipment, safe housekeeping practices, and how to report health and safety concerns, as well as describes the MSI prevention program, MIPP.

Hours-of-Service Rules

As a commercial motor vehicle, or CMV, driver, you will be responsible for the safe operation of your vehicle. Your life, as well as the lives of everyone around you on the road are at stake. The federal hours-of-service, or HOS, rules were developed to reduce your likelihood of developing fatigue, being involved in fatigue-related crashes, and managing the health effects of driving long hours. Despite these measures, thousands of people are still injured and killed in CMV crashes each year. HOS rules place regulatory limits on when and how long you may drive, with the goal that these limits will help you stay awake and alert while driving. Today, we’ll review the requirements of the federal HOS rules and explain how they affect your job. These rules apply to interstate commerce, that is, transporting cargo or passengers across state lines.

How to Lift and Transfer Patients Safely

One of the biggest hazards healthcare workers face on the job is back injuries and related stress injuries caused by lifting and transferring patients. This module is designed for acute care staff and home health caregivers who lift or transfer patients as part of their job duties.

How to Manage Time Wisely: A Guide for Employees

This course focuses on time management. We’re going to suggest ways you can make better use of your valuable time and accomplish more with less effort.  We’ll focus on practical techniques and information that you can start using right away to gain more control over your very busy work schedule.

How to Prevent Slips, Trips, and Falls for Healthcare Workers

The main objective of this training session is to help you avoid slip, trip, and fall hazards and prevent accidents. This course focuses on Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, requirements and best practices. It does not address rules or guidance issued by other agencies or organizations such as the Joint Commission that may also apply to you.

How to Prevent Workplace Violence: A Guide for Healthcare Workers

How to Properly Inspect Oil Tanks

Oil spills can have a catastrophic effect on the environment, endanger public health and safety, and have significant adverse economic impacts. Therefore, it is important to take precautions to prevent such spills from happening. Regularly scheduled inspections, evaluations, and testing of bulk oil storage containers by qualified personnel are critical parts of discharge prevention. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s, or EPA’s, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure, or SPCC, regulations establish such precautions. This session will cover what is required and how to properly inspect bulk oil storage containers according to the requirements of the SPCC Program.

Human Trafficking: Awareness and Response

This course will inform you of the basic foundation to understanding what human trafficking is and its relation to modern-day slavery, what it looks like, what you should do if you come across human trafficking.

Hydrogen Sulfide Safety

The main objective of this session is to help you understand the hazards of working with hydrogen sulfide and the preventive measures you can take to protect yourself and your coworkers.

Identifying Hazardous Materials

By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand the terms and definitions of toxicology and explain risks of hazardous materials; be familiar with the different types of hazardous materials and how they are classified; know how to read product labels on containers with hazardous materials and recognize the symbols on placards attached to dangerous goods; understand how safety data sheets (SDSs) and other complementary guides are used to assist in identifying hazardous materials; and know precautionary measures to prevent spills and accidents and be prepared for action if and when they occur.

Infectious Materials Transportation

Most incidents involving hazardous substances like infectious materials can be prevented if employees are trained in proper safety procedures and follow the requirements of the infectious materials transportation regulations. The more employees know about infectious materials transportation, the safer they will be personally and the safer the shipments will be as well. The main objective of this online infectious materials transportation safety course is to help teach employees the requirements of the infectious materials transportation regulations and the ways you can help prevent transportation incidents involving these hazardous materials.

Introduction to Industrial Hygiene

Today, we’re going to talk about a very important workplace safety and health topic: industrial hygiene. You’ll learn what industrial hygiene is and how it helps protect you from workplace hazards.

Introduction to OSHA and the General Duty Clause

The main objective of this session is to familiarize you with how OSHA and the General Duty Clause affect your job and our workplace. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand the purpose of OSHA; identify OSHA’s strategies for improving workplace safety; recognize the impact of the General Duty Clause; and know your OSHA rights and responsibilities.

Introduction to Rough Terrain Forklift Safety

Rough terrain forklifts are a special class of forklifts, known as Class 7 powered industrial trucks, that are designed to carry heavy loads safely indoors and outdoors on rugged and sloped surfaces and in adverse weather conditions. This presentation will review the hazards and explain what you can do to prevent accidents and injuries when operating these lift trucks. The course does not cover vehicles used for earth-moving or over-the-road hauling.

Job Hazard Analysis

Laboratory Hazard Identification

Laboratory PPE

This course is recommended for all laboratory personnel. Personal protective equipment, or PPE, provides a barrier between the human body and the hazards of working in a laboratory. The right PPE, properly used and maintained, can protect you from the hazards involved in any task you perform. However, it is up to you to take PPE requirements seriously and do all you can to protect yourself and work safely.

Laboratory Recordkeeping for Supervisors

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires laboratories to maintain records of workplace injuries and illnesses; safety data sheets (SDSs); chemical inventories; employee exposure and monitoring related to occupational chemical exposures; and personal protective equipment (PPE) certification. It’s important to properly maintain these records in the event of an OSHA inspection.

This training course is for laboratory supervisors to assist them in complying with OSHA’s recordkeeping regulations related to laboratory safety. This course also covers non-required recordkeeping guidelines for laboratories.

This course is directed at general laboratory operations. Specialized laboratories and states may have additional recordkeeping requirements.

Laboratory Security

Security is an important issue for laboratories because they often have hazardous materials, valuable equipment, and confidential information that could be appropriated by individuals with criminal and violent intentions.

This training course is for laboratory workers to help them identify the ways to keep the laboratory secure to protect themselves, their co-workers, and the public from harm such as theft, willful damage, or violence. This course applies to laboratories with a security plan in place.

The following employees must be provided with site specific security information to supplement this training:
• Laboratory employees who work with select agents or toxins regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as listed under 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 73.3 and 73.4. The additional training requirements are specified in 42 CFR 73.15.
• Laboratory employees working at a facility that possesses or uses Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive material regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and have duties that require unescorted access to those radioactive materials or devices/materials containing them or are part of the group implementing the security program. The additional training requirements are specified in 10 CFR 37.

Ladder Safety

Ladder Safety (Refresher)

Ladder accidents, injuries, and even fatalities are one of the most common forms of accidents that happen on the job. Use this refresher course to review the key points to working safely with ladders.

Laser Safety in the Laboratory

In the laboratory, lasers are commonly used in instruments like spectrometers, microscopes, and alignment or measurement tools. Although these and other instruments are essential for lab work, the exposure to radiation from the laser is a hazard that can cause eye and skin damage to employees, as well as property damage at the facility if proper precautions and procedures aren’t followed. This training course is for laboratory workers who use instruments containing lasers to help them prevent exposure to laser radiation.

Additional training is required for workers who service and maintain lasers.

In addition to this course, employees who operate higher power Class 3B and Class 4 lasers must be provided with site-specific training based on a hazard assessment conducted at the facility by a laser safety officer. The training must include the guidelines in the American National Standards Institute Laser Safety Standard Z136.1 for Safe Use of Lasers (ANSI Z136.1).

Lead Safety in Construction

You have the right and the responsibility to know about the hazards of lead and the proper procedures for protecting yourself and co-workers from exposure or harm. We’ll discuss lead in your work areas, how to identify lead hazards, and how to protect yourself from those hazards.

Lead Safety: General Industry

You have the right and the responsibility to know about the hazards of lead and the proper procedures for protecting yourself and co-workers from exposure or harm. We’ll discuss lead in your work areas, how to identify lead hazards, and how to protect yourself from those hazards.

Lean Project Management

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the main principles of lean project management. By the time the session is over, you should understand the concepts of eliminating waste, creating value, executing faster, and creating a sense of accomplishment among your project team.

Lockout/Tagout for Affected Employees: Refresher

This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about lockout/tagout for affected employees. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.

Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Employees: Refresher

This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about lockout/tagout for authorized employees. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.

Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees

This session covers the safety procedure known as “lockout/tagout” and related hazardous energy control measures designed to protect you from injuries due to unexpected start-up of machinery or equipment or the release of stored hazardous energy during servicing and maintenance operations after the equipment has been turned off. It does not cover the protection measures for normal production operations-that is, while the equipment is still running. This is part of your training as an “affected employee,” or an operator of a machine or equipment that is serviced or maintained by an authorized employee other than the operator. This training is also required if you work in an area where servicing or maintenance of machinery or equipment is being performed, even though you do not operate the machinery or equipment. For example, material handlers and welders who routinely work in areas near machinery or equipment during servicing or maintenance operations are considered affected employees.

Lockout/Tagout: Authorized Employees

Lockout/tagout training can save lives. Stories about employees crushed to death when heavy machinery starts up without warning are all too common. It is essential for the training in the isolation and control of hazardous energy (aka lockout/tagout) to be effective. This online lockout/tagout safety training course teaches employees to perform the responsibilities of an “authorized person.” Employees will be able to recognize hazardous energy sources, understand responsibilities to other employees, and control hazardous energy with lockout/tagout procedures.

Machine Guarding

Machines are at the heart of every industrial operation. They can be extremely dangerous, hundreds of workers are severely injured or killed because of unsafe work practices around machines. This session will cover some of the common hazards and safe work practices of machines, and is intended for operators and maintenance personnel who may be working with or servicing machines.

Metalworking Fluids

This course is intended for employees who work with metalworking fluids, or MWFs. These fluids are used to cool, lubricate, and prevent corrosion during machining operations and can also be used in grinding, cutting, boring, drilling, turning metal, and so on.

Mold Hazards and Prevention

Molds are forms of microscopic fungi that are found on plant and animal matter. Mildew is the discoloration of materials caused by fungi. They can be found both indoors and outdoors all year round. We’re exposed to them daily in the air we breathe, both inside and outside. Outdoors, mold can be found in the shady damp areas or places where leaves or other vegetation are decomposing. Indoors, mold growth can be found where humidity levels are high.

This session provides information about the hazards of mold in the workplace. This training is intended for building managers, custodians, and maintenance staff who may encounter mold in the workplace and who may be required to prevent or remediate it. Any employees required to remediate mold will also need to receive additional training in hazard communication (hazcom) and respiratory protection, if applicable. This course can also be used for general mold awareness training for all employees, including any employees not required to prevent or remove mold, as mold can be present in any workplace. Exposure to mold can have negative health effects, so it’s not a hazard that should be taken lightly.

Motivating Employees: Tips and Tactics for Supervisors

Motivating employees to perform at their best is one of the most important parts of your job. Productive, well-trained employees who work hard to achieve goals make a company strong and successful. But there’s a lot more to motivating employees than just the occasional pat on the back. Successful motivation is a daily activity that requires the use of a combination of techniques and a variety of motivators.

Negotiation Skills for Supervisors

Negotiation is something everybody is familiar with. It’s something you use all the time in your work as well as in your personal life. For example, you negotiate with your boss so that you can hire an additional employee. You negotiate with other supervisors to coordinate the operation of your departments and work groups. You negotiate many issues with your employees from performance goals to vacation schedules. You negotiate salaries with job candidates. And after work, you go home and negotiate with your spouse over this and that and with your kids over chores and probably just about everything else. The fact is that whether you’re aware of it or not, you spend a significant part of your day negotiating. That’s why good negotiation skills are so important.

New Employee Safety Orientation

No matter what your line of work, you may be exposed to risky hazards. So, it’s important to know about the hazards that exist in your workplace, and how to prevent injuries that can result from poor safety practices. This session provides a basic safety orientation for all new employees.

Noise and Hearing Conservation

This session is part of the training required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under the Hearing Conservation Program. This training session will cover the impact of noise on your hearing, how to identify noise hazards in your workplace, what hearing tests you may be required to take at work, what hearing protection devices are available to you, and how to choose the right ones.

Office Ergonomics

MSDs are among the most frequently reported causes of lost or restricted work time. Workers in many different industries and occupations can be exposed to MSD risk factors at work. Fortunately, work-related MSDs can be prevented.

Organizational Justice and Safety Culture

Efforts to improve safety culture often overlook a foundational element – organizational culture. The beliefs, attitudes, and values of an organization will impact its safety culture and what employees experience as a member of the organization can have drastic effects on safety. This course is designed for upper management and executives and covers organizational culture and climate, as well as the concepts of moral disengagement and organizational justice, from a safety perspective.

Identify the factors that enable a strong safety culture.
Recognize mechanisms of moral disengagement.
Summarize how organizational injustice relates to safety culture.
Promote organizational justice.

Organizing and Planning for Success: What Employees Need to Know

This session will focus on how organizing and planning can help you work smarter, and we’re going to give you the blueprint to more efficient organization and more effective planning.

OSHA Inspections, Citations, and Penalties

This course provides information about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) facility inspection process and the citations and penalties that may result from violating an OSHA standard.

This course is for all employees to help them prepare for an OSHA inspection.

Passenger Van Driver Safety

Passenger vans are frequently used in health care, hospitality, education, and by nonprofit organizations for the transportation of 12 to 15 people. These vehicles are convenient and relatively affordable to maintain. However, they also pose unique safety risks, so anyone who drives a passenger van must be properly trained to recognize the hazards, carry out pre-trip inspections, and follow defensive driving and rollover prevention policies.

This course provides passenger van drivers and their supervisors with the information they need to safely transport passengers with minimal risk. The course covers potential federal and state regulations, hazards specific to passenger vans, loading and inspection best practices, and safe driving and handling techniques.

Additional training is required if the passenger van is considered a commercial motor vehicle (CMV).

Permit-Required Confined Space Rescue for Supervisors

There are, on average, 150 deaths nationally in permit-required confined spaces every year, and in many of those cases, a would-be rescuer was a casualty. This module provides supervisors of permit-required confined spaces with information to help them ensure that rescue services are available and that the means to summon them are operable while entrants are in such a space. The module covers confined space operations in general industry workplaces.

Permit-Required Confined Spaces in Construction: Attendant

This safety training module is for attendants at permit-required confined spaces where construction work is performed, including building new structures or upgrading existing ones. An attendant is stationed outside a permit-required confined space to monitor the entrant, conditions inside the space, prevent unauthorized entry, and summon rescuers when needed.

Permit-Required Confined Spaces in Construction: Authorized Entrant

This safety training module is for entrants at permit-required confined spaces where construction work is performed, including building new structures or upgrading existing ones.

Permit-Required Confined Spaces: Attendant

Permit-Required Confined Spaces: Entrant

Over 2 million workers enter permit-required confined spaces annually, but less than 15 percent are trained to recognize common hazards like oxygen deficiency, engulfment, entrapment, and other safety and health threats from energized systems and toxic materials. Fortunately, there are effective and well-established safe practices, testing protocols, and hazard controls that can prevent injuries and illnesses caused by these hazards in confined spaces. This training session provides information on these safe practices for workers designated as authorized entrants for permit-required confined spaces.

Personal Fall Protection Systems in General Industry: What Employees in California Need to Know

This session is about personal fall protection systems in general industry workplaces. If you are exposed to potential fall hazards from unprotected sides or edges 4 feet or more above a lower level, this training session will help you identify these hazards and know how to properly use personal fall protection systems when needed.

Personal Fall Protection Systems in General Industry: What Employees Need to Know

This session is about personal fall protection systems in general industry workplaces. If you are exposed to potential fall hazards from unprotected sides or edges 4 feet or more above a lower level, this training session will help you identify these hazards and know how to properly use personal fall protection systems when needed.

Personal Protective Equipment: Healthcare Workers

Today, you’ll learn why using the right PPE for the job is so important. You’ll also learn about hazards that require PPE and how to select, use, and maintain your PPE so that it can always provide the protection you need. The main objective of this training session is to provide you with an awareness of how to use PPE effectively to protect against job hazards. This course focuses on Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, requirements. It does not address rules or guidance issued by other agencies or organizations such as the Joint Commission that may also apply to you.

Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is often the last line of defense from injury when other safety measures fail, such as engineering controls like guards and barriers and safe work practices you learned in training to limit exposure to hazards. There are barriers to wearing PPE, such as matching the right PPE for the hazard, having it fit comfortably, and maintaining it in good working condition. This course is for workers who are required to wear PPE because they are or may be exposed to physical or health hazards when engineering, administrative, and safe work practice controls can’t feasibly or effectively reduce exposures to safe levels.

Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Refresher)

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is often the last line of defense from injury when other safety measures fail, such as engineering controls like guards and barriers and safe work practices you learned in training to limit exposure to hazards. There are barriers to wearing PPE, such as matching the right PPE for the hazard, having it fit comfortably, and maintaining it in good working condition. This refresher course is for workers who are required to wear PPE because they are or may be exposed to physical or health hazards when engineering, administrative, and safe work practice controls can’t feasibly or effectively reduce exposures to safe levels.

Planning and Organizing Skills for Supervisors

Planning and organizing are two key functions any supervisor performs, making them an extremely important skill set. This course shows supervisors how to become better organized and develop plans so they can be more efficient and set and follow strategies for achieving goals.

Be sure to ask your supervisor or trainer if you do not understand any of the information presented in the program.

Portable Power Tool Safety

Portable power tools are common at many workplaces, but many workers become complacent when using them on the job and are seriously injured as a result.  This course is designed for workers who use portable power tools such as drills, sanders, chain saws, circular saws, and grinders and provides information about the hazards and safe practices to prevent injury.  By the end of the course, you will be able to identify the hazards of portable power tools, take precautions against injury, use tool guards effectively and correctly, and understand common safety practices for specific types of tools.  Duration: 14 minutes

Powered Platform Safety

The main objective of this session is to talk about powered platform safety features and procedures. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify powered platform components, recognize platform safety features, understand inspection requirements, use personal fall arrest systems properly, follow safe work practices, and act effectively in an emergency.

PPE: Foot Protection

This training session is for anyone exposed to foot hazards and required to wear foot protection on the job. We will discuss the potential foot hazards found in the workplace, the types of foot protection you may be required to use, and what you can do to prevent foot injuries.

PPE: Hand Protection

Hands and fingers are complex and versatile tools we use for so many things that we often take them for granted. Think about how difficult it would be to do everyday tasks, such as eating, dialing a phone, using hand tools, or operating machinery, if you had a broken finger, a severely cut thumb, a deep puncture in your palm, or another similar hand injury. Despite the importance of using our hands in daily life, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, has found that nearly a quarter of workplace injuries involve hands or fingers, with 70 percent of these incidents related to workers not wearing gloves and the other 30 percent related to using improper or damaged gloves. Fortunately, you can avoid hand injuries if you remember to wear the right gloves for the job and keep them in good condition.

Preparing for Weather Emergencies

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and severe storms often occur with some warning, but it’s important that you take precautions in order to stay safe. And, while it’s usually the exception, remember that sometimes these disasters come on quickly, so preparation is key. Today, we’ll talk more about what to do if a weather emergency threatens your facility or your home.

Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls at Industrial Sites: A Guide for Employees

Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common causes of injury on the job. These injuries result in 1 or more days away from work, and for more severe injuries, you could be looking at weeks of lost workdays. Some workers might even be permanently disabled and unable to perform their normal jobs. Slips, trips, and falls are debilitating; costly; and, most importantly, largely preventable.

This course is for workers in industrial environments and discusses how to prevent slips, trips, and falls by recognizing hazards, applying safe work practices, and using fall prevention and protection systems.

Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls in California: A Guide for Employees

The main objective of this session is to eliminate slip, trip, and fall hazards in the workplace and prevent accidents. By the time the session is finished, you will be able to recognize slips, trips, and falls as a serious safety problem; identify slip, trip, and fall hazards on the job, at home, and outdoors; avoid or eliminate slip, trip, and fall hazards using commonsense methods; understand the importance of proper ladder safety and some of the ways California is there to protect you; prevent falls everywhere—at work, outdoors, and at home; and minimize injuries if you do fall.

Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls: A Guide for Employees

Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common causes of injury on the job and at home. Everyone slips, trips, or falls on occasion, but sometimes, the result can be serious, painful—and even deadly—injuries. It’s important to recognize slip, trip, and fall hazards on the job when you see them so that you can take proper precautions to prevent accidents and protect yourself and coworkers from injury.

Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls: A Guide for Employees (Refresher)

Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common causes of injury on the job and at home. Everyone slips, trips, or falls on occasion, but sometimes, the result can be serious, painful—and even deadly—injuries. It’s important to recognize slip, trip, and fall hazards on the job when you see them so that you can take proper precautions to prevent accidents and protect yourself and coworkers from injury.

Preventing Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California

This course covers the hazards of wildfire smoke and how to prevent and control wildfire smoke exposure. This training is intended for California employees working in areas where the Air Quality Index (AQI) for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5), is at or above 151, and for areas where employers can reasonably expect their employees to be exposed to wildfire smoke. Wildfire smoke isn’t a hazard that should be taken lightly as it can cause numerous adverse health effects, from lung irritation, up to and including heart failure and death. The main objective of this course is to teach you how to protect your health and safety when working in the presence of wildfire smoke and poor air quality.

Preventing Workplace Violence: What Employees Need to Know

Preventing Workplace Violence: What Employees Need to Know (Refresher)

Workplace violence is among the leading causes of workplace fatalities, and there are thousands of nonfatal violent on-the-job incidents each year. Workplace violence can occur at any business or workplace, and anyone can be a victim. Therefore, it’s important for you to know how to prevent these incidents and what to do if you encounter a potentially violent situation at work.
This course is a refresher for the Preventing Workplace Violence: What Employees Need to Know course.

Problem Solving for Employees

This session teaches employees problem-solving techniques. It goes without saying that problem solving is part of any job. Problems can’t be avoided. “Problems” are better looked at as opportunities for improvement. The problem-solving methods covered in this session can help trainees identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, change employee behaviors and attitudes toward problems and, consequently, be more empowered and successful at work.

Problem Solving for Supervisors

Problems are a fact of your daily working life. You can’t avoid them. The best you can do is recognize them and try to solve them before they cause more problems. Learning to identify problems and develop effective solutions is one of the biggest challenges any supervisor faces. At the same time, the skill with which you deal with problems on the job has a direct impact on your effectiveness as a supervisor and on your career success. The problem-solving methods you will learn in this session can help you identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, and consequently, be more successful in your job.

Process Safety Management

Process Safety Management in California

Project Management: Planning

Project Management: Stakeholders

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the concepts of stakeholder analysis and management. By the time the session is over, you should be familiar with the purpose of a stakeholder analysis, how to identify your project’s key stakeholders and important peripheral stakeholders, why you should involve stakeholders and why getting to know them is important, and understanding some different methods for conducting a stakeholder analysis.

Project Management: The Beginning

The main objective of this session is to prepare you for the demanding task of getting a project under way. By the time the session is over, you will understand the many steps involved in successfully executing a project, how to wind up a project properly, and special situations that can complicate the implementation of a project.

Project Management: Troubleshooting

The main objective of this session is to teach you about troubleshooting within project management. In this training module, we will go over what troubleshooting is, what the signs of trouble are and how to avoid them, why troubleshooting is important, and ways to react to different situations to become a more efficient troubleshooter.

Project Planning: Budgeting

The objective of this training session is to learn how to create a budget—and how to stay on it. We will talk about the importance of careful and accurate budgeting in the project planning process, the basic steps involved in budgeting for a project, and the importance of monitoring expenditures during project implementation. By the end of the session, you should be better prepared to deal effectively with problems and bring any project in on budget.

Project Quality Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you about Project Quality Management and how the process works. In this training module we will go over the Project Quality Management process, why it is important, and how to implement the process.

Project Risk Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you about project risk management and how to identify and plan for risks. In this training module, we will go over what project risk management is, why it is important and, most importantly, how to identify risks.

Radiation Safety in the Laboratory

Although we are exposed to small amounts of natural and manmade radiation each day, laboratory workers who work around radioactive materials, specifically ionizing radiation, have a higher chance of developing health issues from accidental acute and chronic exposure to high amounts of radiation. This course is for laboratory workers who work around radioactive materials to help them prevent, manage, and decrease the risk of radiation exposure.

Reactive Chemicals

Chemical reactions can be extremely hazardous if they are not thoroughly understood and controlled. When intentional or unintentional reactions get out of control, they can result in fires, explosions, or releases of toxic fumes or gases. You and your coworkers could be injured-or even killed-as a result of an uncontrolled chemical reaction. It’s essential, therefore, that you know how to safely manage reactive chemicals to prevent accidents. This course is intended for employees who may be exposed to reactive chemicals on the job. This course only covers reactive chemicals, and employees exposed to any hazardous chemicals on the job must receive comprehensive hazard communication training. This course is meant to supplement, but not replace, required hazard communication training.

Reasonable Suspicion and Responding to Substance Abuse for Supervisors

Some organizations have drug and alcohol testing programs, while others do not. If your organization does have a program, “reasonable-suspicion testing” is when an employee is directed to undergo a drug or an alcohol test based on signs or symptoms that the employee is under the influence of a substance. Reasonable-suspicion testing should be based on observable factors like behavior, appearance, and body odor, not on rumors or hearsay. As a supervisor, you may be responsible for making reasonable-suspicion determinations and deciding when to refer an employee for a drug and alcohol test. If your company does not have a drug and alcohol testing program, you still must act if you believe an employee is under the influence at work or involved with ongoing substance abuse. Like with reasonable-suspicion testing, supervisors at organizations that don’t have testing programs must base actions on what they observe. Therefore, it’s essential that all supervisors recognize the signs and symptoms of intoxication and ongoing abuse and respond according to their organization’s policies.

Recordkeeping: Injury and Illness

Refueling Equipment

Whether using diesel, gasoline, or other flammable liquids, refueling equipment is a necessary part of each construction project. Following safe refueling procedures is critical in ensuring your safety, as well as the safety of your coworkers. This course will cover safe refueling techniques, as well as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations for the safe handling of these potentially dangerous substances including 29 CFR 1926.152 – “Flammable liquids” and 29 CFR 1910.1200 “Hazard Communication Standard”. This session is intended for employees who work with construction machinery and refuel equipment.

Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure

Respiratory Protection

Millions of workers like you wear respirators in workplaces across a wide variety of industries to protect against poor oxygen environments, harmful dusts, fogs, smokes, mists, gases, vapors, and sprays. But just wearing a respirator is not enough. You need to know how to properly fit, use, inspect, and maintain your respirator to fully protect yourself from these respiratory hazards. If you don’t, these hazards can cause cancer, lung impairment, lung diseases, or even death.

Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers

Healthcare workers like you wear respirators to protect against the inhalation hazards of airborne contaminants from working with and around patients with infectious diseases and/or working with hazardous chemicals, including certain medications, gases, and aerosols.

But just wearing a respirator is not enough. You need to know how to properly fit, use, inspect, and maintain your respirator to fully protect yourself from these hazards. If you don’t, diseases like coronavirus; influenza; tuberculosis, or TB; and measles can spread and infect you and your coworkers. And working with hazardous chemicals, such as high-level disinfectants, anesthetic gases, and nitrous oxide, can cause cancer, lung impairment, lung diseases, or even death.

Respiratory Protection: How to Conduct Fit Tests

Whether you’re a supervisor, a safety manager, or other support staff, if you are tasked with performing respirator fit tests, it’s critical that you be properly trained to conduct OSHA-approved fit-test procedures. Respirators protect workers against insufficient oxygen environments, harmful dusts, fogs, smokes, mists, gases, vapors, and sprays, but to keep these harmful substances out, respirators must fit properly. OSHA requires fit testing before initial use and annually thereafter for all respirators that rely on a mask-to-face seal, and fit testing is the best way to make sure that the selected respirator properly fits the user’s face and provides maximum protection from airborne contaminants. While there are no specific training requirements for fit testers, there are specific procedures approved by OSHA that must be followed to ensure proper fit, and anyone performing fit tests should be trained on these procedures.

Risk Management: Program 2 Prevention Program

Today, we are going to talk about the safe operation of processes that use toxic and flammable chemicals and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s, or EPA’s, regulations for preventing chemical accidents. This training session is designed for employees working at facilities with processes categorized as Program 2 under the EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions under 40 Code of Federal Regulations, or CFR, 68, otherwise known as the Risk Management Program, or RMP.

Risk Management: Program 3 Prevention Program

Today, we are going to talk about the safe operation of processes that use toxic and flammable chemicals and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s, or EPA’s, regulations for preventing chemical accidents. This training session is designed for employees working at facilities with processes categorized as Program 3 under the EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions under 40 Code of Federal Regulations, or CFR, 68, otherwise known as the Risk Management Program, or RMP.

Safe Chemical Handling

Employees use many different chemicals in the workplace to produce products and do their jobs. But these chemicals can often be hazardous to health and safety unless employees take proper precautions when handling them. This course explains the steps workers need to take to handle the chemicals they work with safely so they can prevent accidents, injuries, and illness.

This course is for all employees who work with hazardous chemicals.

Safe Driving Techniques for CMVs

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is the part of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) responsible for regulating commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) and their drivers, states that “driver error” is a primary cause of large-vehicle accidents. CMV driver error can include failure to look before taking an action, fatigue, external distractions, driving at unsafe speeds, or even eating and drinking behind the wheel.

This course will help CMV drivers with a commercial driver license (CDL), identify risky driving behaviors and highlight safe driving techniques to ensure that your actions are not the cause of an accident.

Safe Driving: Backing Up

Safe Driving: Preventing Rear-End Collisions

Rear-end collisions are a very common type of vehicle accident. Every year, these accidents kill tens of thousands of people, injure hundreds of thousands more, and cause extensive and costly damage to vehicles. If you drive on the job, or even if you just commute by car, knowing the causes of and ways to prevent rear-end collisions can help to keep you safe. This session discusses the primary causes of rear-end vehicle collisions and details the safe driving practices that can prevent these incidents.

Safe Forklift Operation

Operating a forklift is a big responsibility, and it’s one that requires you to pay attention to safety at all times. Forklifts are useful for moving heavy loads, but remember that they are powerful machines that can be extremely dangerous if operated incorrectly. This course is designed to help you become a better and safer forklift operator. If you’re an experienced operator, this course may remind you of safe habits and work practices that you might have forgotten. If you’re a new operator, this course will describe the operating practices you need to follow to be a safe operator. Reviewing this course by itself will not make you a good forklift driver. It’s up to you to put what you learn into practice so that you can become a safe and responsible operator.

Safe Forklift Operation in California

Operating a forklift is a big responsibility, and it’s one that requires you to pay attention to safety at all times. Forklifts are useful for handling heavy materials but remember that they are powerful machines that can be extremely dangerous if operated incorrectly.

This course is designed to help you become a better and safer forklift operator. If you’re an experienced operator, this course may remind you of safe habits and work practices that you might have forgotten. If you’re a new operator, this course will describe the operating practices you need to follow to be a safe operator. If you are an experienced operator but are new to the state of California, this course should alert you to some new practices not required elsewhere.

This session covers the basic concepts of operating a forklift safely and prepares you for hands-on operator training. CAL/OSHA has strict requirements on all manners of operation and equipment, which we will discuss in general throughout this training session.

Safety as a Right and a Responsibility

When employees at all levels recognize their right to a safe workplace and take safety seriously, they will take more personal responsibility for the safety of themselves and others. Personal commitment to safety is a key enabling factor for a culture of safety.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Defend all workers’ right to a safe and healthy workplace.
• Accept the appropriate level of responsibility for safety based on their position within the organization.
• Recognize unsafe conditions and behaviors.

Safety Leadership

Leadership practices and styles in an organization heavily influence safety climate, which then influences employees’ motivation to participate in developing a culture of safety, making leadership critical to driving and developing a culture of safety. This session is designed for supervisors; managers; and EHS professionals to learn more about how to foster a culture of safety through motivating, engaging, and building trust with employees.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Describe the impact of leadership on safety culture.
• Recognize the importance of employee engagement to a culture of safety.
• Recall the elements that must be present to engage employees.
• Utilize effective methods to involve employees in safety processes.

Saving Energy at Work and Beyond

In this session, you’ll learn key terms, such as “conservation” and “sustainability”; energy conservation and why it is important; facts about energy use, including nonelectrical energy; costs of using and wasting energy; and tips, strategies, and opportunities for saving energy.

Scaffolds in Construction

This session provides basic hazard awareness and safe work practices for workers who use scaffolds to safely perform construction, repair, and maintenance work on structures and for workers who erect, maintain, and disassemble scaffolds. The course covers practices and control measures to protect workers from scaffold-related injuries caused by falls; falling objects; unstable or overloaded scaffolds; electrocution; and slips, trips, and falls on the same level. Note that this session does NOT cover permanent work platforms, aerial lifts, scissor lifts, or lifts suspended from cranes or derricks.

Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety

Thousands of workers use scissor lifts to perform work at heights across a wide variety of industries. But because of this high rate of usage, there is a similarly high rate of scissor lift-related accidents. Fortunately, the majority of these incidents can be prevented through proper training. This presentation will train scissor lift operators to appreciate the hazards associated with scissor lifts; minimize those hazards; and safely operate, handle materials on, and inspect and maintain scissor lifts.

By the end of the course, workers will be able to recognize the hazards of operating scissor lifts; identify common features of scissor lift equipment; inspect scissor lifts and maintain them in a safe working condition; demonstrate safe stabilization, positioning, and operation of scissor lifts; lift loads, tools, and other work materials properly; and prevent falls through safe work practices and by wearing the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).

Shiftwork Safety

Shiftwork means working hours in addition to or outside of the traditional 8-hour daytime job. Shiftwork has many benefits for workers including higher pay, easier commute, and the convenience of running errands and going to appointments during time off. Unfortunately, shiftwork is associated with poor sleep quality, greater risk of fatigue-related workplace injuries, attention lapses with serious and sometimes fatal consequences, and disruptions to a worker’s diet, mental health, and social life.

This module is for workers who regularly work extended hours or hours outside of the 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daytime work shift. It explains the common hazards of shiftwork and describes strategies to stay healthy and safe on the job.

Silica Dust in General Industry: Preventing Exposure

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), exposure to respirable crystalline silica remains a serious threat to approximately 300,000 workers in over 75,000 U.S. general industry and maritime workplaces. OSHA estimates that over 100,000 of these workers are in high-exposure-risk jobs, such as operations using sand products, including glass manufacturing and sandblasting. Respirable crystalline silica, or silica, is a common mineral found in materials such as stone, artificial stone, and sand, and it has been classified as a human lung carcinogen. Additionally, breathing crystalline silica dust can cause silicosis, which in severe cases can be disabling, or even fatal. The respirable silica dust enters the lungs and causes the formation of scar tissue, thus reducing the lungs’ ability to take in oxygen. There is no cure for silicosis. The OSHA respirable crystalline silica rule for general industry found at 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1910.1053 sets forth requirements to significantly reduce the amount of silica dust that workers can be exposed to in the workplace, including employee training. This training session will cover the hazards of respirable crystalline silica and how to protect yourself and others each day on the job.

Slips, Trips, and Falls: What Supervisors Need to Know

The main objective of this session is to help you prevent slips, trips, and falls among the employees you supervise. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify slip, trip, and fall hazards in the workplace; eliminate slip, trip, and falls hazards in work areas you supervise; prevent falls on stairs and from ladders; help employees prevent slips, trips, and falls outdoors and at home; and teach employees how to minimize injuries if they fall.

Snow and Ice Removal Safety

SPCC and FRPs

This course provides information about federal oil pollution prevention regulations, and specifically the requirements for Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans and Facility Response Plans (FRPs). This course is intended for personnel who handle oil at their facilities and those who may be involved in oil spill response activities. When oil spills into the environment and reaches bodies of water, it can have harmful impacts on the environment, human health, and economic activity. The main objective of this session is to give you the information you need to help prevent, control, and respond to oil spills.

SPCC: What to Expect from an EPA Inspection

This course covers what to expect and how to prepare for a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) inspection by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspector. This training is intended for managers, supervisors, and employees with job responsibilities in their employer’s SPCC Plan.

Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan (SPCC Plan)

Under the Clean Water Act (CWA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires regulated oil storage facilities to develop a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan (SPCC Plan). This awareness-level training course is for oil-handling personnel employed at facilities subject to the federal SPCC rules. The course covers the federal SPCC Plan requirements and some best practices for preventing and controlling oil spills so that employees can safely carry out their responsibilities related to the federal SPCC rules.
Employers are required to have an on-site trainer provide site-specific information about the facility’s policies for discharge prevention, spill response, facility operations, and the SPCC Plan to supplement this course. The trainer must be qualified to implement the components of the SPCC Plan addressed in the training.
This course doesn’t cover the additional training requirements for personnel employed at facilities with Facility Response Plans (FRPs).

Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)

Stormwater runoff is a major carrier of pollutants that damage rivers, lakes, streams, and coastal waters in the United States. To address this problem, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed a federal program under the Clean Water Act to regulate stormwater discharge sources. This training session will help identify the sources of pollutants in stormwater runoff, and implement procedures to prevent pollutants from getting into stormwater or the environment.

Stress Management

“Stress can be harmful to our health and increase mental health challenges. Mental health challenges can include clinical mental illness and substance use disorders as well as other emotions like stress, grief, or feeling sad and anxious. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to manage stress, as well as improve mental health and well-being. This session is intended for all employees.

Teambuilding for Employees

Teams can be an extremely effective way to get important work done. Teamwork boosts productivity, improves quality, ensures greater safety, and makes companies more profitable and competitive. That’s why team building is a topic everyone should know something about.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:

• Understand how you can build strong, effective teams in your organization

The Dangers of Distracted Driving: A Guide for CMVs

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, the arm of the Department of Transportation, or DOT, responsible for regulating commercial motor vehicles, or CMVs, and their drivers, points to driver distraction as a contributing factor in 10 percent of accidents involving large trucks. If you drive a single or combination truck with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more or a passenger-carrying vehicle that carries 8 or more passengers (including the driver) for compensation or 15 or more passengers (including the driver) not for compensation, then this session is for you. This training will help you identify and avoid distracted driving behaviors to ensure that your actions are not the cause of an accident.

The Paperless Office: Conservation for Employees

The use of paper in offices for printing, copying, and other purposes consumes valuable natural resources, pollutes the environment, and costs organizations money. Fortunately, these environmental and economic costs can be reduced by taking steps to decrease the amount of paper used in the workplace. Although it may not be possible for all companies to become completely paperless, using less paper is a goal that can be achieved with the proper knowledge and actions. This session is intended for all employees.

Time Management for Supervisors

Many professionals struggle with poor time management due to a lack of organization, constant firefighting, short-term commitments, inadequate communication, and indecision. This course aims to help you identify your work style and select a time management method that suits you best.

We will focus on the importance of effective time management and introduce various models to enhance productivity. The course emphasizes that time is a limited resource, and managing it well reduces stress and increases efficiency.

Training the Trainer: Effective Techniques for Dynamic Training

Effective training of employees is essential in today’s workplace. Technological advances, rapid changes in the regulatory environment, and challenges cultivating and developing employees for the long term make effective training more important than ever. But trainers themselves need to be trained, to increase their effectiveness and comfort level with the job. This session will prepare individuals with training responsibilities to facilitate or guide trainees through their learning process.

Trenching: Competent Person

This session is intended for the “competent person” at trench excavation sites—that is, a person who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards and working conditions that are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees in and around excavations and who is authorized to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate the hazards.

Underground Construction Safety

Constructing underground tunnels, shafts, chambers, and passageways exposes workers to many dangers, including reduced visibility, falling rocks and soil, difficult or limited entry and exit in work areas, exposure to air contaminants, and emergencies such as fire and explosion. This module provides workers involved in underground construction work with information about common hazards and safe work practices to prevent injuries and respond to emergencies.

Understanding Chemical Labels Under GHS

OSHA’s HazCom standard requires containers of hazardous chemicals to be labeled with information about the possible hazards associated with the chemicals and how employees can protect themselves from those hazards. Therefore, being able recognize and interpret the various components of a chemical label is essential for the safe use of chemicals. GHS ensures that all labels provide clear and consistent information.

Understanding the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

Hazardous chemicals are found in many workplaces, and every day millions of workers face the potential for exposure. Therefore, it is important to know what chemicals are in your workplace, what hazards they present, and how to limit exposure to those chemicals. This course provides information on the purpose of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and introduces the safety data sheet (SDS) to all persons who may encounter hazardous chemicals in the workplace. By the end of the training, you will be able to summarize the GHS and how it affects hazard communication in the workplace; recognize how the SDS improves your access to vital safety, health, and environmental information about chemicals used in the workplace; explain the accessibility of SDSs in the workplace, and identify the 16 sections of the SDS and the information contained in each section.

Universal Wastes: Large and Small Quantity Handlers

This presentation covers the employee training requirements for large and small quantity handlers of universal wastes. It does not address all the requirements for universal waste transporters or destination facilities.

Warehouse Safety

You may not think of the warehouse as a particularly hazardous place, but annual injury and fatality rates are rising, and the fatal injury rate for the warehousing industry is higher than the national average. Warehouse work is physically demanding, with workers constantly on their feet walking, bending, and lifting, and workloads can vary widely from day to day or even from hour to hour. Environmental factors, such as extreme temperatures, high noise levels, and poor lighting, can also affect workers’ health and safety.

With every activity in a warehouse covered by at least one Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulation, the wide variety of potential hazards can seem unavoidable.

Fortunately, there are a number of safe practices that you can follow to address each of these hazards and to ensure your safety while working in a warehouse.

Water Conservation: Making Every Drop Count

In today’s presentation we’ll discuss Water Conservation—Making Every Drop Count! This session covers some basics about water usage and water pollution. This course is intended for all employees across all industries because everyone uses water and can benefit from learning how to conserve it.

Welding and Cutting Safety (INT)

There are many hazards associated with welding, cutting, and brazing. Following proper procedures and wearing the appropriate protective gear can reduce your risk of injury. Fire prevention is a major concern, and applying controls can prevent fires and explosions. The objectives of this session are to discuss important safety points about welding and cutting.

Welding and Cutting Safety for Construction Workers

The objectives of this session are to discuss important safety points about welding and cutting. By the end of the session, you will be able to identify the major safety and health hazards, know the different welding processes, select appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), and implement controls needed to prevent or control fires.

What Is Safety Culture?

No matter your position within an organization, you play a role in its culture. Safety culture is a hot topic in the safety world, but what does it really mean, and how is it influenced? This module will introduce you to the basics of safety culture: what it is, how it impacts safety performance, and how to identify a strong one.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Define safety culture, or a culture of safety.
• Recognize the benefits of a culture of safety.
• Describe the characteristics of strong safety cultures.
• Identify the factors that enable a strong safety culture.
• Explain how safety climate is different from safety culture.

Whistleblower Protections

Federal law entitles all workers to a safe workplace. The definition of a workplace includes commercial motor vehicles, or CMVs. Not only must employers keep the workplace free of known health and safety hazards, but each employee also has the right to speak up about hazards without fear of retaliation. This training module is for workers who report or make a complaint about workplace hazards or unsafe conditions to learn about their rights for protection against retaliation from employers.

Working in Cold Conditions

Those of you who work regularly in cold conditions have more to worry about than just being uncomfortable. Cold working conditions can actually lead to health hazards that you need to protect yourself against. During this session, we’ll tell you what hazards to look out for and how you can keep yourself safe—and warm!

Working in Hot Conditions

Working Safely Around Heavy Equipment

A construction site is an inherently dangerous workplace. The main goal of this session is to help you understand the importance of working safely near heavy equipment. At the end of the session, you will be able to understand the leading causes of heavy equipment-related accidents, identify dangers associated with heavy equipment, discuss what Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations say about working safely on or near heavy equipment, and learn basic precautions to stay safe on the worksite.

Working Safely Near Power Lines

Working Safely Outdoors

Today, we’re going to talk about working safely outdoors. Working outdoors exposes you to many different types of hazards, including poisonous plants, insect bites and stings, snakebites, other animal bites or scratches, heat- and cold-related illness, pesticides and herbicides, and the hazards of any outdoor power tools you might use. To keep safe when working outdoors, you have to be aware of all the hazards and the precautions you need to take to prevent injuries or illness.

Working Safely with Benzene

The main objective of this session is to help you work safely with benzene. By the time this session is over, you will be able to identify benzene hazards; understand exposure limits; use engineering controls, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent exposures; and know what to do in an emergency involving benzene.

Working Safely with Corrosives

Corrosives are hazardous chemicals that can cause serious health problems if you fail to take proper precautions. Corrosives can also be a safety hazards. Some are flammable, and others can cause explosive reactions. Strong corrosives can react with all kinds of materials—even metal. All corrosives share a common chemical property: They degrade other materials due to their aggressive nature. To prevent accidents and injuries, you need to know how to work safely with corrosives.

Working Safely with Flammable Liquids

In this training session, we will discuss the hazards of flammable liquids, as well as the precautions required for working safely with them. Because flammable liquids can be so hazardous and cause fires, explosions, injuries, and extensive damage to workplaces, you need to know how to work safely with them so that you can minimize risks and prevent accidents.

Working Safely with Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is a toxic chemical compound that can cause serious health effects and is commonly used in laboratory operations. This training session is meant for employees working in laboratories or other environments where formaldehyde is present and who may be exposed to a formaldehyde concentration of 0.1 parts per million or higher. The main purpose of this session is to help you work safely with or around formaldehyde.

Working Safely with Solvents

Solvents are substances that are used by millions of workers every day in every type of workplace for cleaning, bonding, or extraction purposes or to improve the performance of other substances. This course focuses on the hazards of organic solvents and best practices to work with them safely. “Organic” means they are a group of solvents that contain carbon molecules. Non-carbon-based solvents, like acids or bases and metal elements used to make alloys, are not covered in this presentation.

This course is for all employees who work with or around solvents.

Working with Flammables and Reactives in the Laboratory

Workplace Safety for Employees

Workplace Safety for Employees: Refresher

This refresher course will give you the main points to remember about workplace safety. For more complete information, be sure to take the full-length course.

Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care in California: What Employees Need to Know

Although workplace violence is often unpredictable and can happen in any business, there are some environments and occupations that are at higher risk. One of the occupations at a higher risk is healthcare workers. This session discusses your role in preventing violence by recognizing potential threats, defusing violent situations, and reporting any violent incidents. This course is designed to meet the requirements of California’s Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care, but it outlines preventive and safe work practices that can apply to health care facilities around the country.

Workplace Violence Prevention in California

Workplace violence is among the top leading causes of workplace fatalities, and there are thousands of nonfatal, violent, on-the-job incidents each year. Workplace violence can occur at any business or workplace, and anyone can be a victim. Therefore, it’s important for employees to know how to prevent these incidents and what to do if they encounter a potentially violent situation at work.

Compliance:

Employers are required to provide an opportunity for interactive questions and answers with a person knowledgeable about the company’s safety policies and practices during this training. Employees are encouraged to write down any questions they have while taking the training. For instructor-led training: There will be a Q&A session after the training. For eLearning: Employees can reach out to their supervisor, who will direct them to the designated person to ask their questions. Employers are also required to provide employees with a written copy of the company’s workplace violence prevention plan at the time of hire and annually thereafter. Before starting this training, employees must ensure they’ve received a copy of the company’s workplace violence prevention plan. Employers must also provide employees with site-specific information to supplement this training. Employees must notify their supervisor if they haven’t received the plan or site-specific information before starting this training. Templates for the plan and site-specific information are included as resources for this course.

Workplace Violence Prevention in New York: Retail Workers

Workplace violence refers to any act or threat of physical violence, abuse, harassment, or intimidation against an employee that occurs at the workplace. Workplace violence can occur across all different kinds of industries and occupations. This course focuses on preventing workplace violence for retail workers in New York. In addition to this course and to be compliant with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (NYS Labor Law, Section 27-e), employers must provide employees with the store’s workplace violence prevention policy and give store-specific training on:

• Worksite-specific list of emergency exits (a detailed list or a floor map with emergency exits)
• Staff meeting location in the event of an emergency
• Emergency-related devices (including fire alarms) and how to operate them
• Additional emergency procedures (e.g., specific procedures for an evacuation)
• Security-related devices (including personal response systems and panic alarms) and how to operate them
• Store-specific security problems and how to address them (this information only needs to be provided to supervisors)