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OSHA’s 10 hour Construction course is a one and a half day program and will provide an overview of OSHA’s standard in these areas:

• Roadway Work Zones
• Personal Protective Equipment and High Visibility Garments
• Collisions
• Night Work, Mechanized Equipment
• Mechanized Equipment
• Excavations, Trenching and Confined Spaces
• Fall Prevention and Protection
• Hazard Communications
• Occupational Health and Environmental Controls

Intended audience for this course would be:

• The owners, managers and staff of those organization working on construction projects,
• Project Manager, inspector and technical staff of state or local agencies,
• Other personal working around or on construction projects.

Notes: This is a 10-hour course held over two days.

Tuesday: 1:00 am-5:00 pm

Wednesday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

By Signing up for this class you are committing to attend BOTH DAYS.

YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS TO RECEIVE AN OSHA CARD. The 10-hour OSHA course is taught over two (2) days and you must ATTEND BOTH DAYS TO RECEIVE AN OSHA CARD on the second day. You MUST register for both days.

Please limit attendees to five/company.

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This course covers the OSHA Excavation Standard and safety and health aspects of excavation and trenching. Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored slopes and walls of excavations, introduction of various types of shoring (wood timbers and hydraulic), soil classification, and use of protective systems. Testing methods are demonstrated and students participate in workshops in the use of instruments such as penetrometers, torvane shears, and engineering rods. Upon course completion students will have the ability to assess their employer’s compliance with the OSHA Excavation Standard, utilize soil testing methods to classify soil types, determine protective systems for excavation operations, and training requirements.

By signing up for this class you are committing to attend ALL 3 DAYS of this course (January 22-24).

Join us for our Opening Session of the 14th Annual Safety Fest.

Opening Session: This year’s theme is The Art of Selling Safety and features a panel of experts discussing how they sell safety to employees, clients, subcontractors, management, government, and the public. Our keynote speaker, Tim Page-Bottorff, CSP, CET, and recent recipient of both the ASSP and NSC highest awards, will share techniques on how to inject Humor in Safety – from Blah Blah Blah to Ha Ha Aha! This is your chance to learn the latest proven techniques to sell safety in your business!

Grab a lunch and join us for an informal gathering to get to know the Director and some of the Boise team.  Get an update on OSHA’s focus and hot topics.  Bring your questions.  No need to register or RSVP.

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This American Heart Association class provides a few hours of excitement and interactive learning on the basics of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, use of an Automated External Defibrillator, and basic First Aid skills.

A focus on common serious hazards in residential construction, including fall hazards, caught in, trenching/excavations, electrical safety, power tools, and more.  This will look at methods to protect yourself and your workers from these hazards and to be professional and successful in this booming industry.

This class will cover NFPA 70E for both low voltage and high voltage work and address why this standard applies to all electricians and why it is the best thing to comply with this consensus standard even though it isn’t actually regulation. The NEC is written to provide a standard for new construction whereas NFPA 70E is to protect the electrician who has to perform maintenance on existing installations. Statistics indicate that based on hospitalization records, 5-10 arc flash accidents that involve a fatality or serious injury to an employee occur every day in the United States. This class will discuss how to protect ourselves, our employers, and other workers while doing electrical repairs.

HazMat Awareness level shall have sufficient training or have had sufficient experience to objectively demonstrate competency in the following areas: An understanding of what hazardous materials are, and the risks associated with them in an incident; An understanding of the potential outcomes associated with an emergency created when hazardous materials are present; The ability to recognize the presence of hazardous materials in an emergency; The ability to identify the hazardous materials, if possible; An understanding of the role of the awareness individual in the employer’s emergency response plan including site security and control and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Emergency Response Guidebook.

This 1-hour class is designed to provide participants with a general knowledge of Lock Out / Tag Out including Affected versus Authorized personnel, various types of hazardous energy associated with heavy equipment, and the critical steps for de-energizing heavy equipment.

This course covers the process to identify, select and properly safeguard machinery to protect employees and others in the work area and deliver appropriate training in safe work practices.  Course topics include types of machinery requiring guarding, point of operation, emergency eyewash/shower requirements, hazard communication, OSHA Machinery and Machine Guarding Standards violations, and corrective actions.  Upon course completion students will have the ability to explain hazardous actions and motions of various types of machinery, identify methods of safeguarding, and match identified safeguards with the applicable OSHA Machinery and Machine Guarding Standards to reduce and eliminate the potential for accidents and injuries.