Introduction to Construction Safety

In Introduction to Construction Safety, you'll learn ...

• The leading causes of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry
• Safeguards and work practices you can use to mitigate the risks
• Success stories from project teams who fully committed to adopting and enforcing safe workplace practices

Overview

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Credit: 1 CPD

Length: 20 pages

Construction work is dangerous business. The fatal injury rate for the construction industry is much higher than in most other industries. To function safely within the confines of this industry, workers must acquaint themselves with necessary precautions and diligently practice them.

In this course, we’ll review some of the most prevalent hazards in the construction industry, along with OSHA requirements and safe work practices designed to mitigate the hazards. Areas that will be covered include: scaffolding, fall protection, stairs and ladders, trenching, hazard communication and forklift operations.

This course is useful for contractors, engineers of all disciplines, as well as managers, tradesmen, and anyone else who has occasion to work in or around the construction industry.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify OSHA requirements for the erection, use, and inspection of scaffolding.
• Differentiate between a "competent person" and a "qualified person" with respect to scaffold safety.
• Apply guidelines for green, yellow, and red tagging of scaffolding.
• Describe OSHA rules for fall protection of construction industry employees working at heights.
• Classify OSHA’s requirements for when employers must provide stairways and ladders.
• Compare an excavation and a trench.
• Specify OSHA requirements for sloping, shoring, and shielding of trenches.
• Explain OSHA’s soil type classifications as they relate to the slope angle of a trench.
• Interpret the use of trench boxes and other protective systems to comply with OSHA’s standards.
• Analyze safe practices for the use of cranes and forklifts on a construction site.
• Outline methods to mitigate the hazards associated with the storage and handling of chemicals on site.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.