Bituminous Insurance Companies
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a new two-hour training module emphasizing workers' rights. It is required content in every 10- and 30-hour OSHA Construction, General Industry, and Maritime Outreach course. It includes helpful worker safety and health resources, an instructor guide, PowerPoint slides, student handouts, and participatory activities. Outreach trainers are expected to incorporate this module into the 10- and 30-hour outreach classes immediately. OSHA will note the requirement in the next revision of the Outreach Training Program Guidelines scheduled for October 2010.
The module focuses on the importance of workers' rights, whistleblower rights, how to file a complaint, and a section devoted to employer responsibilities. It covers a worker's right to refuse to work because of dangerous conditions and provides samples of a weekly fatality and catastrophe report, material data safety sheet and the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses.
The current OSHA Outreach Training Program guidelines state that only one hour is mandatory on Introduction to OSHA in the 10-hour course. This new module requires an additional hour of coverage for the Construction, General Industry, and Maritime Outreach Training Program’s 10-hour classes. As a result, a trainer may eliminate one hour devoted to optional topics.
Trainers must follow the learning objectives and integrate all participatory activities into the training. A trainer may use other suitable presentation materials in their training, and this would allow a trainer to add work-site photos and company-specific tailoring to the presentation.
Trainers may use their own PowerPoint slides when conducting this training. However, the focus of the training should be on discussion and interaction, not slides. Some questions, exercises, and handouts are based on whether trainers are teaching a Construction, General Industry, or Maritime outreach class. Trainers only need to use the applicable industry portion.
The training curriculum includes:
To read more about this new OSHA requirement and to download the guides, handouts, and slides listed above, go to http://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/teachingaids.html.
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