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EKU Offering OSHA 501 and 503 Course in Louisville

Friday, March 5th, 2010

EKU-OTI#501 - Trainer Course in OSHA Standards for General Industry, April 27-30, 2010 in Louisville, KY

This course is designed for personnel in the private and public sector interested in teaching the OSHA 10- and 30-hour general industry safety and health outreach program to their employees and other interested groups. Special emphasis is placed on those topics that are required in the 10- and 30-hour programs as well as on those that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. Course participants are briefed on effective instructional approaches and the effective use of visual aids and handouts. This course allows the student to become a trainer in the Outreach Program and to conduct both a 10- and 30-hour general industry safety and health course and to issue cards to participants verifying course completion. Prerequisites: Course #511 and five years of general industry safety experience. A college degree in occupational safety and health, a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) designation, in the applicable training area may be substituted for two years of experience. NOTE: Students in Course #501 who wish to participate as authorized trainers in the Outreach Program must successfully pass a written exam at the end of the course. Outreach trainers are required to attend Course #503 at least once every four years to maintain their trainer status.

#503 - Update for General Industry Outreach Trainers, April 27-29, 2010 in Louisville, KY

This course is designed for private sector personnel who have completed course #501 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry and who are active trainers in the outreach program. It provides an update on OSHA general industry standards and OSHA policies. Prerequisites: Course #501. NOTE: Outreach trainers are required to attend this course once every four years to maintain their trainer status. Students must bring their current trainer’s card for validation.

To register please contact Josh Dahl at with Eastern Kentucky University at (859)622-2961 or josh.dahl@eku.edu




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OSHA Establishes Watch List for Outreach Training Program

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

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Release Number: 09-917-NAT
Aug. 6, 2009
Contact: Diana Petterson
Phone: 202-693-1898

OSHA establishes “Watch List” to strengthen integrity of Outreach Training Program

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in an effort to crack down on fraudulent trainers, is continuing to strengthen the integrity of its 36-year-old Outreach Training Program by publishing an “Outreach Trainer Watch List” of those who have had their trainer authorizations either revoked or suspended.

OSHA recently conducted an undercover investigation as part of its heightened effort to address fraudulent activity by trainers authorized through the OSHA Outreach Training Program. The investigation of a 10-hour course conducted by Don Barker, environmental health and safety director for Thor Construction in Las Vegas, revealed several examples of failure to comply with program guidelines. Barker’s infractions included submitting falsified information regarding the instructional time spent on the topics, failing to collect and retain required documentation and inappropriately advising students not to contact OSHA to report hazards.

OSHA revoked Barker’s Outreach Training authorization after he declined to appeal the decision and his name has been added to the “Watch List” on OSHA’s Web site. The “Watch List,” available at http://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/construction_generalindustry/watchlist.html, will be updated weekly. OSHA is monitoring training programs and has provided a hotline at 847-297-4810 for individuals to file complaints about fraud and abuse.

“Trainers who fail to provide appropriate safety training will pay a stiff price for their fraudulent behavior,” said Jordan Barab, acting assistant secretary of labor for OSHA. “A tighter record control procedure has been instituted requiring trainers to sign their reports and certify the class was conducted in accordance with OSHA’s guidelines. Trainers face civil and criminal penalties under federal law if reports or certifications are found to have been falsified.”

Trainers are authorized by completing a one-week OSHA trainer course through an OSHA Training Institute Education Center. The trainers are then eligible to teach 10-hour programs that provide basic information to workers and employers about workplace hazards and OSHA, and 30-hour courses in construction, maritime and general industry safety and health hazards.

The voluntary Outreach Training Program has grown to a national network of more than 16,000 independent trainers eligible to teach workers and employers about workplace hazards and provide OSHA 10-hour course completion cards. The program’s success has prompted some states and cities to legislate a requirement that workers complete training to earn an OSHA 10-hour card as a condition of employment.

Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA’s role is to promote safe and healthful working conditions for America’s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; and providing training, outreach and education. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.

 




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First Nevada Environmental and Safety Instructor Placed on OSHA ‘watch list’

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Don Barker, the former health and safety manager for Boyd Gaming who quit his position in protest over the company’s handling of safety issues following the death of two workers at The Orleans, has had his authorization to teach Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety courses revoked by the federal government 

Barker was placed on a new OSHA “watch list” and can no longer teach federal safety courses after he was found to not be in compliance with program guidelines for OSHA-10 training, including advising students not to report safety hazards, the U.S. Labor Department announced last week.

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OSHA to Strengthen Integrity of Outreach Training Program

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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National News Release: 09-540-NAT
May 20, 2009
Contact: Diana Petterson
Phone: 202-693-1898

U.S. Labor Department’s OSHA strengthens integrity of Outreach Training Program

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in an effort to crack down on fraudulent trainers, is strengthening the integrity of its 36-year-old Outreach Training Program by improving how trainers become authorized to teach and ensuring these trainers are in compliance with OSHA program guidelines.

This voluntary program has grown to a national network of more than 16,000 independent trainers eligible to teach workers and employers about workplace hazards and to provide OSHA 10-hour course completion cards. However, some trainers have fraudulently not provided the appropriate training in accordance with the program.

“The use of independent trainers has allowed OSHA to significantly extend its training capabilities,” said Jordan Barab, acting assistant secretary of labor for OSHA. “But OSHA will not tolerate fraudulent activity or unscrupulous trainers when workers’ health and lives may be at stake.”

Trainers are authorized by completing a one-week OSHA trainer course through an OSHA Training Institute Education Center. The trainers are then eligible to teach 10-hour programs that provide basic information to workers and employers about workplace hazards and OSHA, and 30-hour courses in construction, maritime and general industry safety and health hazards.

The program’s success has prompted some states and cities to legislate a requirement that workers complete training to earn an OSHA 10-hour card as a condition of employment. Because this training is becoming a requirement for gaining employment, the program has experienced fraudulent activity.

OSHA has increased unannounced monitoring visits to verify that trainers are in compliance with program requirements. OSHA will continue to refer fraudulent activity to the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General, and trainers caught falsifying information will be subject to criminal prosecution. The public is asked to call a new outreach fraud hotline at 847-297-4810 to file complaints about program fraud and abuse. OSHA also has developed a new process for investigating and adjudicating complaints; and a “watch list” of outreach trainers who have received disciplinary action will be posted on OSHA’s public Web site at http://www.osha.gov.

OSHA began implementing other changes in 2008. These include requiring trainers to certify their classes and ensuring that training documentation is in accordance with OSHA’s guidelines before trainers can receive course completion cards. Tests for outreach training program trainer courses have been revised to ensure more rigorous exams for authorizing new trainers. OSHA is also developing an ethics module to be added to all trainer courses.

“Strengthening the integrity of the Outreach Training Program will help ensure that workers receive quality training, help them gain employment and return them home safely at the end of their workday,” said Barab.

Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA’s role is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for America’s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach and education.




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More Reports Of OSHA 10 Hour Training Fraud

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Now reported in the Springfield MO Business Journal, that OSHA 10 hour trainers are cutting corners. This after a new Missouri state law is requiring contractors to have completed an OSHA 10 hour training program by August. According to the article OSHA’s Regional Administrator is receiving reports that OSHA Authorized Trainers are teaching the class in way less than 10 hours and that there may be incidents that cards are being provided to those who are not attending a class at all.

Read the entire article http://sbj.net/main.asp?SectionID=18&SubSectionID=23&ArticleID=84709&TM=44973.73


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New York City Probes Reveal Bogus OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Cards a Growing Problem For OSHA

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Sunday’s June 15th 2008 edition of the New York Daily News reported that workers involved in erecting and dismantling towers cranes in New York City may not be qualified to be doing that type of work. A worker was found to have a fake OSHA 30 card that he received from his foreman.The Daily News article reported that:

“The worker, Luis Alvarez, a 32-year-old Mexican immigrant, said he was given the wallet-sized card by a construction foreman in case federal job-safety inspectors questioned him.

The card - also required for certain construction supervisors and workers in high-risk jobs - certifies the holder has completed 30 hours of safety training and passed a rigorous 40-question U.S. Labor Department

Alvarez told The News he was handed the card after a two-hour safety lecture. He said he did not take a test.”

In New York City OSHA 30 cards became required for all workers who erect and take down tower cranes following the two tower crane collapses and nine deaths since March 15th. Now I need to clarify that Federal OSHA actually doesn’t require a test for the class.

Then a February 1st 2009 New York Daily News report the newspaper planted an undercover reporter in an OSHA 10 Hour training session and wrote a scathing report about the quality and length of training. See “Corners cut and beers downed at Fed-run OSHA classes” for more details as well as a related article titled “This Course is Almost as Easy as Falling Off a Bar Stool”. Some excerpts from these articles:

“Drakeford (the instructor from a safety consulting company by the name of Safety 1st NYC) for the first time began actual instruction, reading off OSHA slides as they appeared on the screen. He occasionally expanded on a couple of the bulleted points, but passed most of it off as general knowledge.”

“Drakeford skimmed over slides that showed proper measurements to build stairways and set up ladders. He appeared not to understand the many requirements regarding handrails and guardrails. “

“Frequently he got confused and skipped the rest of the slide. Drakeford said, “All of this is on the carpenters, though.”

12:42 It was over. Total teaching time: 2 hours, 17 minutes.”

These articles were followed by a call by New York City Mayor Bloomberg for Federal OSHA to crack down on the bogus OSHA card scams. This article reported:

“Hicks (Director of OSHA’s Office of Education and Training) said OSHA has put together a “watch list” of trainers “who have been subject to corrective action including suspension or revocation of their trainer status.”

“The list, which the agency expects to make public in weeks, will prevent trainers whose certification has been revoked from obtaining new approval at a different OSHA training facility. “





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No More Extra OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Cards For Trainers

Friday, April 10th, 2009

In an email to all OSHA Education Centers the Director of OSHA Office of Training & Educational Programs - Jim Barnes tells all education centers to no longer provide extra 10 and 30 Hour cards to Outreach Trainers.

This is in response to OSHA’s frantic effort to tighten up controls after several instances of outreach trainers being caught issuing cards for pay without the participants attending the training program. There have been numerous accounts of extremely abbreviated classes (two hours instead of ten) or not being conducted at all. Interested parties just buy the card from the instructor. See this New York Daily News piece “OSHA Approved Trainer Sold Certification”  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/03/2009-02-03_osha_approved_trainer_sold_certification.html  and related articles such as “Corners cut and beers downed at Fed-run OSHA classeshttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01/31/2009-01-31_corners_cut_and_beers_downed_at_fedrun_o.html  as well as “This Course is Almost as Easy as Falling Off a Bar Stoolhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01/31/2009-01-31_this_course_is_almost_as_easy_as_falling.html .

Barnes states “As an additional control measure for the Outreach Training Program, OSHA has decided to discontinue the practice of supplying trainers with extra cards to be used as needed for replacements, misprints, etc. Effective immediately, requests for Outreach Training Program 10-hr and 30-hr (and 16-hr DSW) cards should be fulfilled for the exact number of students on the course report”.

Barnes goes on to say “Replacement cards may be issued to trainers only upon specific request. Trainer requests for replacement cards must be verified to ensure that they meet the criteria outlined in the Outreach Training Program guidelines.”



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OSHA Makes Changes to 10 & 30 Hour Outreach Training

Monday, December 15th, 2008

New OSHA Outreach Training Program Guidelines AvailableOSHA has issued new Construction and General Industry Outreach Training Program guidelines replacing the 2003 versions for the 10 and 30 hour programs. Changes were made to the required content of the 10 and 30 hour training topics.  There are also changes to the Outreach Training Program report and additional recordkeeping and retention requirements for outreach trainers.  The guidelines affect an estimated 15,000 active outreach trainers and thousands of OSHA-authorized outreach trainers.  Authorized outreach trainers should go to the new OSHA Outreach page for details.