Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

At the conclusion of the class, the student should have the information and knowledge required to be certified in 30-hour Construction Occupational Safety and Health Training. Students must attend 30 hours of classroom time and pass final exam to receive completion card.

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of OSHA standards and General Duty Clauses.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of general safety & health provisions.
•  Identify health hazards in construction.
•  Demonstrate the basics of fall protection and prevention.
•  Demonstrate electrical safety including lockout/tag-out and protective grounding equipment.
•  Demonstrate overhead protection using identifying signs, signals, and barricades.
•  Demonstrate proper material handling, rigging, storage, use, and disposal of most hazardous materials

This course will be presented by means of lectures and homework utilizing the course book Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry. The course will include demonstration/hands on, discussions and videos.

At the beginning of the course, the instructor will detail methods to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a final grade.

The course is mostly lecture with appropriate demonstrations covering OSHA standards and General Duty Clauses, general safety & health provisions, health hazards in construction,fall protection and prevention, electrical safety including lockout/tagout and protective grounding equipment,overhead protection, identify signs, signals and barricades.material handling, rigging, storage, use and disposal of. most hazardous materials