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Asbestos Awareness

Asbestos was at one time considered to be an ideal material for many industrial and construction purposes. Although asbestos fibers are nearly indestructible, the materials with which asbestos is combined are not. When asbestos-containing materials deteriorate, asbestos fibers are released into the air… and exposure to these fibers can cause severe health problems – even death. This course will familiarize employees with asbestos containing materials and help them protect themselves from asbestos hazards. At the same time it will help your company comply with OSHA’s Asbestos Standard.
∙ Asbestos-containing materials
∙ Consequences of exposure
∙ Hazard protection
∙ Available in Spanish

Back Safety

Eight out of ten Americans will seek medical attention for a back problem sometime in their lives. That’s a scary statistic! With back injuries accounting for more worker's compensation cases than any other injury, this course will help workers understand how injuries happen and how to avoid back injuries by using the right techniques.
∙ Anatomy of the back
∙ Injuries
∙ Injury prevention
∙ Proper lifting techniques
∙ Real-Life situation

Bloodborne Pathogens

This course will help protect employees and ensure that your facility is in compliance with OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (1910.1030). It is specifically designed for industrial companies and similar organizations to train their workers on the threats that AIDS and hepatitis B pose to them in the workplace.
∙ Fundamentals of bloodborne pathogens
∙ Bloodborne diseases
∙ Transmission
∙ Exposure Control Plan
∙ Standard precautions
∙ Personal protective equipment
∙ First aid
∙ Housekeeping
∙ Real-Life situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Confined Space Entry

This important course will help your company comply with OSHA’s final standard (1910.146) and help protect your employees from the dangers of working in permit spaces. Working in a confined space can be extremely dangerous; however, hundreds of needless injures and deaths can be avoided if workers are properly trained.
∙ Permit Space Program
∙ Hazard control
∙ Entry team duties
∙ Real-Life situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Defensive Driving

This course is designed to help workers safely engage in one of the most surprisingly dangerous activities they face on the job – driving. Motor vehicle accidents are the single largest cause of accidental deaths overall, and they are the leading cause of fatalities on the job in our country. Every driver can benefit from the practical safety techniques taught here – even seasoned motorist who may discover that some of their driving habits are not as harmless as they thought.
∙ Analyzing driving attitude
∙ Common distractions
∙ Drinking and driving
∙ Driving under other influences
∙ Safety belts and other protective equipment
∙ Maintaining safety
∙ Defensive driving techniques
∙ Hazardous conditions
∙ Real-Life Situation

Electrical Safety

This in-depth course not only covers electrical safety procedures but will help you comply with OSHA’s Electrical Safety Standard (1910.331-335).
It is designed to introduce workers to the principles of electricity, show them how to avoid the dangers of electrical shock and demonstrate to them correct responses to electrical emergencies.
∙ Electrical principles
∙ Electrical hazards
∙ Engineering controls
∙ Safe work practices
∙ Real-Life situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Environmental Awareness - Part One

A polluted environment bequeaths long lasting problems with dangerously far-reaching effects. This course provides a detailed overview of both the problems and solutions, focusing specifically on air and water pollution.
∙ History of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
∙ The EPA today
∙ How pollution occurs
∙ Air pollution
∙ Water pollution
∙ Cleanup
∙ Environmental regulations

Environmental Awareness - Part Two

Teach your workers to prevent environmental problems at the source before these problems pollute our earth. This course, second in a two-part series, provides the same detailed overview of environmental concerns and solutions but with the focus on wastes and chemicals.
∙ History of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
∙ The EPA today
∙ How pollution occurs
∙ Wastes
∙ Chemicals
∙ Cleanup
∙ Environmental regulations

Fall Protection

Because every fall has the potential to result in permanent injury – or even death – this important course teaches workers how to protect themselves against fall-related disabilities or fatalities. It is designed to help workers master the critical areas of choosing the most effective fall protection system for their specific job and using correctly. Because knowing effective rescue procedures can help a worker save lives and minimize injuries if a fall occurs, rescue techniques are thoroughly covered as well.
∙ Fall arrest system
∙ Position device systems
∙ Personal fall protection systems
∙ Maintenance and inspection
∙ Emergency rescue strategies
∙ Real-Life situation

Fire Safety

Fire. It’s the third leading cause of death in the U.S., but people still underestimate its danger. More than 150 fires occur in the workplace every day. This dramatic course will help you understand the cases of fire, safe housekeeping measures and emergency response procedures.
∙ Components of fire
∙ Classes of fire
∙ Fire prevention
∙ Housekeeping
∙ Emergency action plan
∙ Emergency response
∙ Fighting fire
∙ Real-Life situation

Forklift Certification

This course explains the fundamentals of forklift safety including a description of the hazards involved with driving a forklift and necessary qualifications for operation. The basic design, capabilities and limitations of forklifts are described as well. Complies with OSHA’s Powered Industrial Truck Standard (1910.178).
∙ Certification and training
∙ Design, capabilities and limitations
∙ Controls and instrumentation
∙ Pre-use inspection
∙ Operation
∙ Stability, conditions and loads
∙ Hazards
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish
There is an additional “hands on” component to complete this course.

Forklift Safety

This course is designed to allow the advanced forklift driver to skip over sections covering areas where his or her competence has been established, while providing the new operator the opportunity to get all the knowledge he or she needs to operate forklifts safely. Complies with OSHA’s Powered Industrials Truck Standard (1910.178)
∙ Introduction to safe forklift operations
∙ Advanced driving techniques
∙ Setting down the load
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Hazard Communication - Identifying the Dangers

This course teaches the basics of safe hazard communication practices. It describes OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (1910.1200) and how Material Safety Data Sheets are used. The course also covers the importance of looking at the labels and understanding chemicals.
∙ Finding chemical information
∙ Material safety Data sheets (MSDSs)
∙ Understanding chemical hazard
∙ Chemical properties and exposure
∙ Safe work practices
∙ Real-Life Situation

Hazmat Awareness

The Department of Transportation dictates that anyone who ships, transports, handles and/or stores hazardous materials must comply with 49 CFR 171-180. All workers must be trained in various levels of the HazMat transportation process in order to comply with these DOT regulations. This course will help you ensure that employees understand the DOT regulations and help complete and document mandatory training requirements.
∙ Hazardous materials regulations
∙ Definitions, terms and requirements
∙ Specific requirements and exceptions
∙ Emergency response information
∙ Placarding and labeling
∙ Shipping papers
∙ Available in Spanish

Hearing Protection

Sensori-neural hearing loss can be prevented – with proper testing, proper equipment and proper training. This course will help employees use hearing protection properly and will help them understand the importance of utilizing hearing protection both on and off the job
∙ Noise exposure
∙ Hearing conservation program
∙ Hearing protection devices
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Hazwopper Awareness

So, you have some hazardous materials and/or hazardous waste on-site. If a release should take place, would all of your employees know what to do? Would the first person on the scene know enough to alert others to the crucial problems and keep safe? This important course will give your employees the information and confidence they would need should an incident occur. It will also help you meet the training requirements for Awareness Level First Responders under the OSHA/EPA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (OSHA 1910.120(q)(6)(a).
∙ Introduction to hazardous materials
∙ Importance of the HAZWOPER standard
∙ Fundamentals of emergency response
∙ Duties of Awareness Level First Responders
∙ Hands-on experience with a “virtual” DOT      
∙ Emergency Response Guidebook
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Indoor Cranes

Indoor cranes perform multitude of jobs that help increase productivity. However, using a crane improperly can cause expensive breakdowns, product damage and even serious injury. This course has been carefully crafted to prevent those accidents and breakdowns by focusing on inspection procedures and safe operations techniques of the basic type of shop-operated power hoist equipment commonly used in the workplace.
∙ Types of cranes
∙ Inspection
∙ Rigging the load
∙ Lifting the move
∙ Safe operating practices
∙ Real-Life Situation

Ergonomics

Employees who work ergonomically correct have fewer injuries and are often more productive – it’s just that simple. But, making a job ergonomically correct requires a team effort between the worker and the employer. This course will help workers recognize potential hazards and understand how to correct them.
∙ Body parts that can be injured by poor ergonomics
∙ Ergonomic hazards
∙ Repetitive motion
∙ Importance of breaks and exercise
∙ Workstation design
∙ Eliminating hazards
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

First Aid

The first minutes following an industrial accident are critical. What is done in those crucial moments can make a big difference in the outcome of the victim’s injury. This important course combines a few simple rules with some common sense to train workers in basic, yet highly effective, first-aid techniques that may one day help them save a co-workers life. This course provides you with the ability to track hands-on CPR training in one place.
∙ Victim assessment
∙ Bleeding
∙ Shock
∙ Bone Injury
∙ Real-Life Situation

Lab Safety

Working in a laboratory presents workers with unique safety challenges. Hazardous materials are often abundant, and lab workers handle a greater variety of hazardous substances than do most other professionals. This course will help your company comply with OSHA’s Lab Safety Standard (1910.1450) and ensure that your workers are trained in proper lab safety procedures.
∙ Overview of OSHA Standard
∙ Chemical Hygiene Plan
∙ Engineering Controls
∙ Work practice controls
∙ PPE
∙ OSHA lab standard control criteria
∙ Employee information and training
∙ Medical consultation and medical examinations
∙ Real-Life situation

Lockout/Tagout

This award winning course will help your company and employees comply with OSHA’s Control of Hazardous energy and Lockout and tagging of Circuits Regulations (OSHA 1910.147 and 1926.417). This course demonstrates to employees the gruesome consequences of not using proper procedures.
∙ Introduction to lockout/tagout
∙ Hazards of uncontrolled energy
∙ OSHA’s six-step procedure
∙ Work performance and removal of locks and tags
∙ Simulated work environments
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Office Safety
No matter what type of work your employees do, they can always learn ways to work safer and smarter. Help your employees to help themselves with this essential course.
∙ Avoiding slips, trips, and falls
∙ Preventing back injuries
∙ Hazardous and flammable chemicals
∙ Fire Safety

Personal Protective Equipment

The goals of this award-winning course are to get workers to consistently and correctly wear appropriate protective equipment to assist organizations in complying with OSHA’s Personal Protective Equipment Standards (1910.132, 133, 135, 136, 138). This interactive course motivates workers to wear their PPE to prevent disabling injuries caused by commonplace accidents.
∙ Full-body protection
∙ Safe work practices
∙ Types of equipment available
∙ Proper use and fit
∙ Real-Life Situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Respiratory Protection

Exposure to airborne hazards can lead to serious health threats, including lung damage, cancer, heart disease, silicosis, asbestosis or other chronic illness. This course covers the critical areas of OSHA’s final respiratory Protection Standard (1910.134) and will help workers prevent respiratory illnesses and injuries.
∙ Hazardous atmospheres
∙ Types of respirators
∙ Fit testing, Maintenance & Inspection
∙ Decontamination and cleaning
∙ Real-Life situation
∙ Available in Spanish

Safety Orientation

This course provides a comprehensive overview of safety issues while it emphasizes paying attention to details, reviews things to watch for and discusses how to respond in an emergency. Course components can be predefined to match job tasks.
∙ Electricity
∙ Chemical Safety
∙ PPE
∙ Ergonomics
∙ Bloodborne pathogens
∙ HazMat
∙ Fire safety
∙ Confined space entry
∙ Machine guarding
∙ Available in Spanish

Stairways and Ladders

Stairways and Ladders may not appear to be as dangerous as some high work surfaces, yet every year over 34,000 workplace accidents involve stairways or ladders. To ensure that each step up or down is a safe one. This important course actively demonstrates why these stairways and ladder accidents occur and what safety procedures will prevent them.
∙ Identifying stairway hazards
∙ Preventing stairway hazards
∙ Ladder selection
∙ Climbing fixed ladders
∙ Proper ladder use
∙ Real-Life Situation

Trenching and Shoring

Any trench has the potential to cave in. Every year about 400 workers die and 6,400 are seriously injured in trench accidents. The first line of defense against these risks is knowledge. This important course will teach workers how to recognize trench hazards and prevent deadly cave-ins, as well as how to handle emergency situations if they occur.
∙ Trench overview
∙ Soil classification
∙ Hazardous conditions
∙ OSHA standards
∙ Safe trenching procedures
∙ Responding to emergencies
∙ Real-Life Situation

Walking & Working Surfaces

Fall injuries are the second-leading cause of death in the workplace, and 250,000 people are injured on the job every year from slips, trips, and fall. This important course is designed specifically to help workers avoid this danger by taking an in-depth look at how to make workplace walking and working surfaces injury-proof.
∙ Traction and balance
∙ Weather hazards
∙ Safety on ramps
∙ Safety on elevating platforms
∙ Real-Life Situation

Cadmium Safety

A naturally occurring element and present everywhere in our environment, cadmium (especially high levels) can present significant health risks if not properly controlled. This important course describes the hazards and effects of exposure to cadmium, procedures for monitoring its presence, and safe work practices to use around this often misunderstood element.
∙ Importance of workplace safety requirements
∙ Effects and symptoms
∙ OSHA exposure limits
∙ Controlling exposure
∙ Workplace Controls
∙ Safe work practices

Electric Power Generation

This course will help employees who work with or near electric utilities to comply with OSHA’s Electric Power Generation, Transmissions and Distribution Standard. Every day, workers who fail to properly protect themselves are injured due to dangerous conditions and unsafe acts. In fact, electrical accidents cause more than 85 deaths each year. The training provided here can effectively prevent these accidents by motivating workers to take electric safety seriously and teaching them the techniques that will keep them safe.
∙ Fundamentals
∙ Working with equipment
∙ Common hazards
∙ Exposed energy lines
∙ Overhead lines
∙ Underground electrical installation
∙ Substations and power plants
∙ Grounding

Heat Stress

This brand new course provides a no-nonsense approach to heat stress and how to prevent or treat heat disorders. Topics include:
∙ Sunburn
∙ Heat rash, exhaustion, stroke
∙ Accumliatization
∙ Work procedures
∙ Fluid intake
∙ Eating habits
∙ Clothing

Eye Protection

This course will help your employees understand the importance of proper eye protection. Reviewing essential procedures, it focuses on avoiding eye injuries and also covers emergency procedures should an accident occur.
∙ Eye protection
∙ Care and maintenance
∙ Injury prevention
∙ Maintenance
∙ Emergency procedures

Hand Protection

We take our hands for granted – that is, until something dreadful happens. This program features workers who recount their experiences with hand injuries. Very motivational! This course will help your employees understand the importance of:
∙ Hazard assessment
∙ Machine hazards
∙ Electrical hazards
∙ PPE section

Lead Safety

Lead is one of the most common and dangerous materials; in fact, long-term exposure to workers can be deadly. This new course will properly train employees to protect themselves against lead exposure accidents.
∙ Overview of lead hazards
∙ Exposure limits
∙ PPE
∙ Housekeeping
∙ Medical surveillance
∙ Real-Life Situation

Hazard Communication

This trainer’s toolkit includes essential materials to help you comply wit this frequently-cited standard and help employees identify hazards. It contains the award winning video, Hazard Communication: The Road to Safety.
∙ Identifying potential hazards
∙ Warning labels
∙ Materials Safety Data Sheets

Pipeline Breaking

After the first few minutes of this course, workers will realize the gravity of the training they are about to receive.
Everyday lines and equipment must be opened for different reasons. Although it is a relatively easy process, the potential for disaster is great. Safely managing the materials flowing through a pipeline system is the focus of this course. Topics include:
∙ Line and equipment opening (LEO)
∙ Establishing an effective safety program
∙ LEO permits
∙ Lockout/tagout
∙ Line-breaking procedures/post procedures
∙ Emergency response

Office Ergonomics

Pinched nerves. Strained muscles. Inflamed tendons. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can happen anywhere – even in the office. This new course is designed specifically to help workers avoid MSDs by taking an in-depth look at how to make the office environment ergonomically correct.
∙ Common stress points
∙ Signs and symptoms of MSDs
∙ Risk factors
∙ Risk reduction
∙ Using a computer
∙ Benefits of protection
∙ Real-Life Situation

Machine Guarding

Each year workers lose fingers, hands and arms; some even die because a machine was never safeguarded – or because the guard was removed for convenience. There are as many possible dangers as there are machines.

That’s why your employees must understand and use their first and best form of protection, machine safeguarding. Topics in this course include:
∙ Categories and types of machine guarding
∙ Importance of safeguarding
∙ Places where most machine hazards occur
∙ Safety control devices

Silica Safety

Silica is the most common mineral in the earth’s crust; in fact, many concrete and masonry products like brick and block contain crystalline silica. Prolonged exposure to crystalline silica can cause silicosis, a serious and incurable disease of the lungs. Learn to work safely around this potentially dangerous material.
∙ What is silica
∙ Sources and effects of exposure
∙ Medical precautions
∙ Engineering controls
∙ Safe work practices

Small Spills and Leaks

This course focuses on controlling small spills and leaks. It covers the essential procedures all employees should know if a leak should occur on their shift. Topics include:
∙ Supervisor notification
∙ Securing the area
∙ PPE
∙ Controlling and containing the spill
∙ Cleanup/decontamination

Spiral to Disaster

This exciting course contains actual footage of the destruction of one of the largest off-shore oil and gas production platforms in the North Sea – the Piper Alpha. You’ll learn what makes a good Emergency Action Plan (EAP), and see what could potentially happen without an EAP in place.
Topics include:
∙ Addressing design flaws
∙ Awareness of work-area hazards
∙ Need for on-going risk analysis
∙ Implementing an effective work permit system

Pro-Active Safety: Target Zero

Zero accidents in the workplace are a possibility – and it all starts with a vision. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin helps to emphasize the importance of pro-active safety by reminding us that there was a time when possible seemed impossible. This course focuses on:
∙ Vision and initiative
∙ Creating expectations
∙ Accident prevention
∙ Building trust
∙ Maintaining leadership

Welding Safety: Safe work with Hotwork

Hotwork operations play a big part in many operations. This important course details various types of welding and discusses vital safety precautions. Topics include:
∙ Personal hazards
∙ Hazardous fumes and substances
∙ Equipment safety

Powered Hand Tool Safety

Power tools can be dangerous weapons in the hands of an untrained or neglectful employee. Ensure the safety of your employees – and your organization. This informative program explains safety precautions to follow when using any powered hand tools, including saws, drills, pneumatic and power-actuated tools.
∙ Planning ahead
∙ Knowing the tool
∙ Checking the accessories
∙ Preparing the work area
∙ PPE
∙ Safe work practices
∙ Real-Life Situation