1. OSHA TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
Waubonsee Safety Days
Conference 2012
John Newquist
Assistant Regional Adminstrator
March 14, 2012

2. TOPICS
• Training requirements
• Ten training area often found inadequate
• General Industry (GI) vs. Construction
Industry training requirements
• Training provided from an employee’s
previous employer?
• Computer web-based training good
enough?

3. How many training requirements does
OSHA have?
• For General Industry there are over __
training requirements.

4. In General Industry there are 59 specific
training requirements.
• 1910.38: Emergency Action • 1910.110: Storage and
Plan Handling of Liquefied
• 1910.66: Powered Platforms Petroleum Gases
for Building Maintenance • 1910.119: Process Safety
Operations Training Management of Highly
• 1910.94: Dip Tanks –Personal Hazardous Chemicals;
Protection; Inspection, Operators, contractors and
Maintenance and Installation mechanical integrity
• 1910.95: Hearing Protection; • 1910.120: Hazardous Waste
Training Program Operations and Emergency
• 1910.106: Flammable and Response; Cleanup Workers,
Combustible liquids New Technology Program,
Emergency Responders
• 1910.109: Explosive and
• 1910.132: Personal Protective
Blasting Agents; Bulk
Equipment
Delivery and Mixing Vehicles

5. In General Industry there are 59 specific
training requirements.
• 1910.134: Respiratory • 1910.151: Medical Services
Protection, Respiratory and First-Aid
Protection for M • 1910.155: Fire Protection
Tuberculosis • 1910.156: Fire Brigades, and
• 1910.142: Temporary Labor training and Education
Camps • 1910.157: Portable Fire
• 1910.145: Specifications for Extinguishers
Accident Prevention Signs • 1910.160: Fixed
and Tags Extinguishing Systems
• 1910.146: Permit Required • 1910.164: Fire Detecting
Confined Spaces Systems
• 1910.147: The Control of • 1910.165: Employee Alarm
Hazardous Energy (LO/TO), Systems
LO/TO devices removed, and
outside personnel

6. In General Industry there are 59 specific
training requirements.
• 1910.177: Servicing of Multi- • 1910.252: Welding, Cutting,
Piece and Single-Piece Rim and Brazing
Wheels • 1910.253: Oxygen – Fuel Gas
• 1910.178: Powered Industrial Welding and Cutting
Trucks • 1910.254: Arc Welding and
• 1910.179: Overhead cranes, Cutting
moving the load • 1910.255:Arc Welding and
• 1910.180: Crawler Cutting
locomotives and Truck • 1910.255: Resistance
Cranes Welding
• 1910.217: Mechanical Power • 1910.261: Pulp, Paper and
Presses, operators and Paperboard Mills
maintenance personnel • 1910.264: Laundry
• 1910.218: Forging Machines Machinery and Operating
Rules

7. In General Industry there are 59 specific
training requirements.
• 1910.266: Logging • 1910.332: Safety Related Work-
• 1910.268: Telecommunications, Practices
derrick trucks, cable fault • 1910.410: Qualifications of Dive
locating, guarding manholes, Team
joint power and • 1910.1001: Asbestos
telecommunication manholes, • 1910.1017: Vinyl Chloride
and tree trimming-electrical
• 1910.1018: Inorganic Arsenic
hazards
• • 1910.1025: Lead
1910.269: Electric Power
Generation, Transmission, and • 1926.1026: Chromium VI
Distribution • 1910.1027: Cadmium
• 1910.272: Grain Handling • 1910.1028: Benzene
Facilities, Entry into Bins, Silos • 1910.1029: Coke Oven Emissions
and tanks, and contractors • 1910.1030: Bloodborne
Pathogens

8. In General Industry there are 59 specific
training requirements.
• 1910.1043: Cotton Dust • 1910.1200: Hazard
• 1910.1044: 1,2-Dibromo-3- Communication
Chloro-propane • 1910.1450: Occupational
• 1910.1045: Acrylonitrile Exposure to Hazardous
(Vinyl Cyanide) Chemicals in Laboratories
• 1910.1047: Ethylene Oxide
• 1910.1048: Formaldehyde
• 1910.1050: 4,4’
Methylenedianiline
• 1910.1096: Ionizing Radiation
Testing and Posting

9. Injury Prevention Basics
• Management Leadership • These principles are
• Employee Participation adopted and recognized
by…
• Hazard Identification, – 2100 VPP Companies
Prevention and Control – 1600 SHARPs
– 1926.20, 1926.21
• Education and Training – 1910.119
– ANSI Z9.10
• Program Evaluation and
– OHSAS 18001
Improvement
– States AR, CA, LA, HI,
• Communication and MN, MT NV, NH, NY, OR,
WA
coordination on multi-
employer sites

10. Hazard Communication
• Trained initially and • Location of program,
when new chemical list of chemical, and
introduced MSDS
• OSHA standard • Detection of chemical
covered • Hazards of chemical
• Operations in their • Protection measures
work area where • Emergency
chemical is used procedures
• Labeling system used

11. Lockout
• Employees who must be trained • No annual requirement, but
initially Retraining when..
– Authorized • A change in job assignments.
– Affected • A change in machines, equipment,
– Others - Contractors or processes that present a new
• hazard.
Retraining
• A change in the energy control
• Certify training procedures.
• Periodic inspections reveal that
there are deviations in the energy
control procedure.
• The employer believes that there
are deviations from, or
inadequacies in, the employee's
knowledge or use of the energy
control procedures.

12. PPE
• Communicate PPE selection decisions to each affected employee
• The employer shall provide training to each employee who is
required by this section to use PPE. Each such employee shall be
trained to know at least the following:
• When PPE is necessary;
• What PPE is necessary; How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear
PPE;
• The limitations of the PPE; and
• The proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of the PPE.
• Each affected employee shall demonstrate an understanding of the
training specified in paragraph 1910.132(f)(1) of this section, and
the ability to use PPE properly, before being allowed to perform
work requiring the use of PPE.

13. Forklifts
• Initially
• Every 3 years
• Near Miss
• Are the
operators
trained to
inspect?

14. Hot Works
• Train personnel on hot
work policies/procedures,
proper use and
calibration of combustible
gas detectors, safety
equipment, fire watch
responsibility, and job
specific hazards and Cutters or welders and their
controls in a language supervisors must be
understood by the suitably trained in the safe
workforce. operation of their equipment
and the safe use of the
process.

15. Respirators
• Training must be provided prior to use, unless
acceptable training has been provided by another
employer within the past 12 months
• Retraining is required annually, and when:
– changes in the workplace or type of respirator render
previous training obsolete
– there are inadequacies in the employee’s knowledge or use
– any other situation arises in which retraining appears
necessary
• The basic advisory information in Appendix D must be
provided to employees who wear respirators when use is
not required by this standard or by the employer

16. Hearing Conservation
• Applies if over 85 dbA
• 1910.95
• The employer shall provide
training in the use and care of
all hearing protectors provided
to employees.
• The training program shall be
repeated annually
• Train on effects of noise,
access to the OSHA standard Proper insertion will affect the
and where it is posted. quality of sound reduction.

17. Electrical Arc Flash
• Removing or installing
circuit breakers or fuses
• Voltage testing
• Working on control
circuits when energized
parts exposed
• Applying safety grounds
• Racking circuit breakers
• Racking starters
• Removing bolted covers

18. Confined Space
 Train before being
assigned, when
changes occur
 Provide advisory
training prior to entry
of any space
 Rescue training is
often inadequate!

19. Boilers
• Over a hundred
boiler explosions
and fires in the last
ten years.
• These are pressure
vessels.
• People assigned to
operate and
maintain the boilers
have little or no
boiler safety
training.

20. General Industry VS. Construction
Industry
• The first two standards in Construction are
general safety training standards.
• Applies to all construction
• Those general standards do not exist in
General Industry.

21. Can you rely on training from an employee’s
previous employer?
• It depends what was covered.
• Training should be specific to the current
employer’s policies, programs and the
hazards that the employee will encounter.

22. Can you rely on training from an employee’s
previous employer?
• Some training standards that requires an
employer to certify the training and
maintain the records.
• Some standards that require refresher
training when there are changes in the
employees working conditions.

23. Is computer web-based training good
enough?
• No, in GI, be careful of standards such as
1910.178(l)(2)(ii) that requires practical
(demonstration) training.
• In Construction 1926.1427 (effective Nov
2014) it will requires practical training as
well.

24. Is computer web-based training good
enough?
• Computer web-based training can and is a
good tool to assist with safety and health
training but should not become the only
method of training for OSHA standards.
• There are some OSHA standards where
computer web-based training would be
good, such as Hazcom, Emergency
Action, and Fire Prevention.

25. Is computer web-based training good
enough?
• Some of the pitfalls of computer web-base
training can be:
– Can the employee read including read English well
enough to understand the program
– If the program stays the same from year to year,
considering the changes made in the facility
– Is there any interaction between the employee and
the trainer to ensure the employee understand the
training per Dr. Michaels memo.

26. PUBLICATIONS
GOOD REFERENCE BOOKS
2254
Training Requirements in OSHA Standards and
Training Guidelines
2209
Small Business Handbook
Revised: 2005

27. THANK YOU
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