Safety Training | OSHA Safety Training

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Amerisafe Consulting and Safety Services (ACSS) offers quality hands-on workplace safety training provided by experienced instructors - customizing site safety training curriculums that adhere to OSHA regulations.

Instructor-lead Training -There is really no substitute for quality hands-on training provided by experienced instructors. Amerisafe Consulting and Safety Services' OSHA Outreach qualified instructors bring the regulations to life by sharing actual field experiences pertaining to the many rules taught in the classroom. We can do this in your choice of location:

Classroom - Our classrooms and hands-on simulations provide students with a fulfilling learning experience at our facilities in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois.

On-site - Our instructors will bring the classroom to your plant or jobsite, making your training experience more efficient for your employees or team.

Custom Course Development - Though all of our courses strictly follow all regulations and guidelines, clients often require "customization" to insure the very best instruction pertaining to their industry's specialized needs. Amerisafe tailors curriculum to those needs while adhering to OSHA regulations. We also develop new classes from scratch covering topics not offered in "cookie-cutter" type courses.

OSHA Safety Training

The following are a sampling of OSHA training courses offered by Amerisafe Consulting & Safety Services:

OSHA 10-Hour Construction

This 10-hour training program was developed by OSHA to provide important safety information on fundamental OSHA standards. Topics include: OSH Act and General Duty Clause; Inspections, Citations and Penalties; Walking/Working Surfaces; Personal Protective Equipment; Material Handling; Means of Egress; Hazard Communication and Confined space.

OSHA 10-Hour General Industry

This 10-hour training program was developed by OSHA to provide important safety information on fundamental OSHA standards as they apply to General Industry. Topics include: OSH Act and General Duty Clause; Inspections, Citations and Penalties; Walking/Working Surfaces; Personal Protective Equipment; Material Handling; Means of Egress; Hazard Communication and Confined spaces.

OSHA 30-Hour Construction

This 30-hour construction safety course was developed by the U.S. Department of Labor to provide construction workers, supervisors and other personnel responsible for construction activities with an awareness of construction safety and health concerns in the construction industry. All attendees will become familiar with reading and using the OSHA Standards for Construction 29 CFR 1926. Other construction safety and health standards are also discussed. Attendees receive an update and review of standard construction safety and health principles and information that prepares them to recognize and control a variety of hazardous conditions.

OSHA 30-Hour General Industry

This 30-hour training program was developed by OSHA to provide important safety information on fundamental OSHA standards as they apply to General Industry. Topics include: OSH Act and General Duty Clause; Inspections, Citations and Penalties; Walking/Working Surfaces; Personal Protective Equipment; Material Handling; Means of Egress; Hazard Communication and Confined spaces, among others.

Confined Space Entry

This 8-hour course is designed to comply with the requirements of OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.146, Permit Required Confined Spaces. The topics covered in this course include: The Occupational Safety And Health Administration (OSHA) Permit Required Confined Spaces standard; Non-permit versus Permit Required Confined Spaces; Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control (physical hazards, health hazards, hazardous atmospheres, oxygen deficient atmospheres, and oxygen enriched atmospheres).

Defensive Driving

This 2-hour course is designed to help students understand their primary responsibility is the safe operation of motor vehicles. This course will introduce ways to drive safely and responsibly, ways that will become habit as the driver puts them into practice.

DuPont STOP™ Program

Every employee will benefit from the personal safety skills taught in this 2-day STOP™ for Employees course. This program teaches employees how to observe safety hazards and audit themselves to ensure that they and their peers care about one another and work safely

Electrical Safety

This 2-hour training is for those who are unqualified to be electricians, but whose work may be performed close to electrical systems. Some of the topics covered include: awareness of the hazards of electricity and identification of unsafe work practices.

Eye Safety

This 2 hour course teaches students to identify potential eye and face hazards in the workplace and how to select the appropriate personal protective equipment.

Fall Protection

This 4-hour course is designed to teach students about methods of eliminating, controlling and preventing fall hazards. It addresses the requirements detailed in the OSHA Fall Protection Standard, 29 CFR 1926, Subpart M Fall Protection.

Fire Extinguisher

This 2-hour training is designed to deal directly with the inherent fire hazards to people and properties and to provide for the "greater safety" and take into account life safety practices: recognition of specific types of fires; and the effects of proper and improper use of fire extinguishers.

First-aid / CPR & AED

This exciting 8- hour program helps business, industry, and government agency employees meet requirements for CPR and first aid training. Covering Primary Care CPR inclusive, Secondary Care and Treatments following national consensus guidelines. (Emergency Care Subcommittee, American Heart Association, Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care, JAMA & 1992;268). A partial list of topics includes: Circles of Care Concept, Initial Assessment, SETUP, Rescue Breathing, Chest Compressions, One Rescuer CPR, Control of Bleeding and Shock Management. Certification Certificate and Completion Card issued upon conclusion of class.

Flagger

This 4-hour course focuses on roadway work zone safety for construction workers. It addresses practical approaches to recognizing and controlling hazards in the work zone. Flaggers are responsible for protecting themselves, work crews, motor vehicles, equipment operators, pedestrians and equipment.

Hazard Communication

This 4-hour course was designed to help employers and employees protect themselves from chemical hazards, and reduce the incidence of related illness and injuries. Attendees will learn how to empower their employees to identify and avoid potential hazards, in addition to assessing situations where exposure to chemicals have occurred.

HAZWOPER Training 1st Responder Awareness

Complies to OSHA 1910.120. This 8-hour course provides employees with the training necessary to respond to an incident at a First Responder Awareness level. All employees who may be the first to discover an incident involving the release of a hazardous substance will benefit from this program -- to learn to Recognize Presence of Hazardous Substances; Understand Correct Methods for Securing Area, Notify Appropriate Emergency Response Agencies.

HAZWOPER 24-hour

This is a 24-hour (3/8-hour sessions) of classroom instruction for a hazardous materials worker or handler and is designed to satisfy the offsite requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120 for initial training of such individuals and helps employees avoid exposure to hazardous materials. Some of the topics covered include: Emergency Response Plan, Site Safety and Health Plan, HAZMAT Labeling, Respiratory Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Medical Surveillance Programs, Monitoring Procedures and Equipment, Accidental Release Measures and Spill Cleanup Procedures, among others.

HAZWOPER 40-hour Initial

This 40-hour classroom and hands on instruction for a hazardous materials worker or handler is designed to satisfy the offsite requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120 for initial training of such individuals and helps employees avoid exposure to hazardous materials. Some of the topics covered include: Emergency Response Plan, Site Safety and Health Plan, HAZMAT Labeling, Respiratory Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Medical Surveillance Programs, Monitoring Procedures and Equipment, Accidental Release Measures and Spill Cleanup Procedures, among others.

HAZWOPER 8-hour Refresher

1 day (8hour) refresher course for 24 and 40 hour Hazwoper students. This course satisfies OSHA's Hazwoper requirement for annual refresher and covers a review of such topics as Hazard Recognition, Emergency Response Plan, Site Safety and Health Plan, HAZMAT Labeling, Respiratory Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Medical Surveillance Programs, Monitoring Procedures and Equipment, Accidental Release Measures and Spill Cleanup Procedures, among others.

Hearing Protection

Some of the topics that are covered in this 2-hour course include: Effects of noise on hearing; purpose of hearing protectors, the advantages, disadvantages, and attenuation of various types, and instructions on selection, fitting, use, and care; purpose of audiometric testing, and an explanation of the test procedures

Heat Stress

This 2-hour course covers heat-induced occupational illnesses, injuries, and reduced productivity that can occur with excessive exposure to a hot work environment. Heat-induced disorders include transient heat fatigue, heat rash, fainting, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke

Lead Awareness

Some of the topics that are covered in this 2-hour course include: background of Lead; Its Use, History and Properties; Health Concerns and Exposure Pathways; Protection from Exposure.

Lockout/Tagout

This vital 4-hour program will train your workers on the proper LockOut/TagOut procedures. Some of the topics that are covered include: Awareness, Attitude, Actions to take; When, where and why to use LOTO; Proper locking/tagging procedures; Communication.

Machine Guarding

This 4-hour course covers topics such as categories and types of machine guarding, importance of safeguarding, places where most machine hazards occur, and safety control devices.

Material Handling

This 4-hour training includes information on types of potential hazards, planning a job, personal protective equipment, proper lifting and moving techniques, other ergonomic considerations, hand trucks, carts and pallet trucks, mechanical lifting devices, and more

Mold Awareness

This 2-hour awareness level Mold Course was developed directly from EPA Guidelines "Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings" and New York City Department of Health guidelines on "Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in indoor environments". The course focuses on identification and reporting of mold in buildings.

Office Safety

This 2-hour program shows employees what hazards exist in office environments, and how important it is to use good safety practices as they go about their work. Some of the topics that are covered include: slips, trips and falls, steps and ladders, proper lifting and safe housekeeping.

Personal Protective Equipment

This 4 -hour course has been created specifically to involve employees in the process of understanding the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment and to help facilities in fulfilling OSHA's Personal Protective Equipment Standards training requirements.

Power Tool Safety

This 2-hour course shows how accidents can be significantly reduced by applying good general safety rules, and reviews what hazards are associated with the specific types of tools employees use. Some of the topics that are covered include: Matching the tool to the job; anticipating hazards; personal protective equipment; tool safety practices.

Powered Industrial Trucks

This 4-hour course covers OSHA requirements, characteristics of PIV's, lifting and traveling with a load and specific hazards. After passing a classroom and hands on test, participants will be issued certification wallet cards.

Respiratory Protection

This 2-hour course has been specifically created to involve employees in the process of understanding respiratory hazards and to help facilities in fulfilling OSHA's Respiratory Standards (29 CFR,1910.103, 134) training requirements. It includes OSHA and NIOSH changes to their Respiratory Protection Training Requirements, such as fit testing protocols and cleaning/disinfecting procedures.

Scaffold Builder/ Erector

The purpose of this 8-hour course is to familiarize scaffold erectors and dismantlers with the regulations, safety guidelines and procedures needed to recognize and eliminate hazards associated with building supported scaffolds

Scaffold User

This 4-hour training for scaffold users includes: Recognition of the hazards associated with different types of scaffolds; The nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area; The correct procedures associated with erecting, maintaining and disassembling fall protection systems used on scaffolds and falling object protection systems being used; Proper use of the scaffold and proper handling of materials on the scaffold; Proper scaffold climbing procedures.

Stairways and Ladders

This 2-hour course shows that because they are so common, many employees take ladders and stairways for granted, and don't take the appropriate precautions when using them. Some of the topics that are covered include: basic rules for ladder use; proper placement; ladder maintenance; tying off and blocking ladders; stairway construction requirements.

Traffic Control

The overall objective of this 4-hour course is to train personnel to provide safe and efficient traffic control devices. Of critical importance is the need to use uniform control devices recognized by motorists throughout the country and to meet national, local, and legal standards, such as the MUTCD (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices).

Walking and Work Surfaces

OSHA's Walking and Working Surfaces Regulation covers a wide range of issues that account for a high rate of citations across many industries. In this 2-hour training, you'll learn where to look for hazards, how to identify them, and how to reduce the risk of injuries from falls - and their related costs.
Welding Safety

This 2-hour course reminds employees that there are indeed a number of hazards associated with welding, and provides the information that they need to work safely when involved with welding operations. Some of the topics that are covered include: types of hazards; personal protective equipment; fire safety; electrical hazards.

ENVIRONMENTAL Safety Training

Asbestos Building Inspector Initial

IDPH AND IDEM APPROVED. This course is a 3 day (24 hour) class. It provides the student with the information required to inspect all types of facilities for Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM). This class is a specialty at Amerisafe because our instructors possess many years of hands-on experience in building inspection & assessment.

Asbestos Building Inspector Refresher

This is a ½ day (4 hour) refresher course as required by the EPA to maintain an accreditation. It fulfills IDPH & IDEM requirements for annual licensing

Asbestos Contractor / Supervisor Initial

IDPH AND IDEM APPROVED. This course is a 5 day (40 hour) course for asbestos abatement supervisors. It also fulfills IDPH requirements for an asbestos project manager. This course will assist in developing the competency of the supervisor in charge of the project.

Asbestos Contractor / Supervisor Refresher

IDPH AND IDEM APPROVED - This is an 8 hour course. It is also required annually to maintain a license. Special emphasis on supervisory responsibilities is stressed in this class. It also fulfills the IDPH Project Managers annual licensing requirements.

Asbestos Management Planner Initial

IDPH APPROVED. This is a 2 day (16 hour) class. The Management Planner is an integral part of any school districts, public or private, management plan required by AHERA.

Asbestos Management Planner Refresher

IDPH APPROVED-This is a ½ day (4 hour) refresher course. It covers all of the required topics to fulfill the AHERA Refresher curriculum.

Asbestos Worker Initial

IDPH AND IDEM APPROVED. This course is a 4 day (32 hour) initial course for Asbestos Workers. It fulfills OSHA's requirements to perform class I & II work. This course meets EPA's model accreditation plan for AHERA, and is required for licensing by IDPH and IDEM.

Asbestos Worker Refresher

IDPH AND IDEM APPROVED - This is an 8 hour annual refresher course which is required by the EPA, IDPH & IDEM to keep a current license and keep working in the asbestos field. The course is designed to keep an Asbestos Worker informed with current information in an ever evolving industry. Emphasis is on Safety at Amerisafe Training Services.

Lead Inspector Initial

This is a 3 day (24 hour) course designed to teach the principles of inspecting for lead in paint, soil, dust and water. The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidelines title X and section 302 of the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act (LBPPA) provide the basic foundations for this complicated lead inspector discipline. This course is required to obtain a license in Illinois or Indiana.

Lead Inspector Refresher

This 8 hour refresher course designed to teach the principles of inspecting for lead in paint, soil, dust and water.

Lead Supervisor Initial

This 4 day (32 hours) course takes the information covered in the Lead Worker one step further in preparation for a supervisor's role. This course is required to obtain a license in Illinois or Indiana.

Lead Supervisor Refresher

This is the Lead Supervisor refresher 8 hour

Lead Worker Initial

This is a 3 day (24 hour) training course. This course is required to obtain a license in Illinois or Indiana. This course meets the training requirements under 1926.62 "Lead in Construction."

Lead Worker Refresher

This is the Lead Worker Refresher course (8 hour)

Mold Supervisor Initial

This is an intensive 2 day course designed to raise the technical standards of those engaged in microbial mitigation and/or remediation with an emphasis on microbial field investigation and sampling. The second day consists of hands-on remediation techniques. Topics include: all of topics covered in the 2 & 8 hours courses+ a full day of hands on training and experience.

Mold Supervisor Refresher

This is the Mold Supervisor Refresher course (8 hour)

Mold Worker Initial

The 1 day Mold Worker Course was developed directly from EPA Guidelines "Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings" and New York City Department of Health guidelines on "Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in indoor environments". The course focuses on proper use of PPE and removal techniques.

Mold Worker Refresher

This is the Mold Worker Refresher course (8 hour)