Public Safety Training Schedule
RTS Consulting offers the following on site courses throughout the year.
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Supported Scaffold Training Class Description
This 4-hour course covers basic safety related to pipe scaffolds including fall protection, electrical hazards, inspections, protective equipment.
Anyone who works on pipe scaffolding regardless of the height are required to take a four hour Supported Scaffold User Course. This includes frames that are only one section high, baker scaffolds, rolling towers, and stair towers. No one is exempt from this training certification including architects, engineers, and project managers.
Supported Scaffold Certification Training
This 6-hour supported scaffold training course will educate your personnel how to minimize or avoid injury and follow the OSHA training prerequisites. In this class, your personnel will find out about getting at ramps, ladders, stairway towers, and walkways. They’ll discover how to avoid hazards with beneficial housekeeping. In this supported scaffold training course they’ll find out about the use of hard hats, debri-nets and toe boards. They’ll find out about OSHA’s height and guardrail necessities also as suitable installation and assembly of industrial scaffolding. Industrial scaffolding certification training for supported scaffolds is mandatory by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Trenching Excavation
This is a 4-hour“qualified person” course. The Trenching and Excavating Safety Course helps employers and employees comply with the OSHA standards by determining what type of working hazards exist, how to correct them and the responsibilities of the competent person. It also conveys the importance of using the right protective system during excavation work. Participants receive a wallet-sized certificate of completion from RTS Consulting Inc.
Fall Protection
The 4 – Hour Fall Protection Safety Course identifies the eight types of fall protection and is designed to help employees recognize and correct fall hazards in the workplace before an accident can occur.
The 6 – Hour Fall Protection Safety Course will provide a basic understanding of fall protection with a focus on personal fall protection systems to increase worker safety while working at heights.
- Fall protection and Fall arrest basics
- Regulations and legislation
- Hazards and Controls
- Fall Prevention
- Fall Protection Principles, Systems and Components
- Proper donning and fitting of harness
- Equipment Inspection, Care and Maintenance
HAZCOM
Upon completion of this 4-hour training course the student will be familiar with:
- Hazard Determination
- Hazardous Chemical List
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- Definitions associated with Hazard Communications
- Hazardous Material Labeling System
- Employee Training
HAZWOPER
HAZWOPER 40-Hour Training Course is required for workers that perform activities that expose or potentially expose them to hazardous substances.
This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations, voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Topics include
- Protection against hazardous chemicals present on the site
- Elimination of hazardous chemicals
- Safety of workers and the environment
- OSHA regulations
- Use of personal protective equipment
- Work practices by which the employee can minimize risks from hazards
- Safe use of engineering controls and equipment on the site
- Medical surveillance requirements, including recognition of symptoms and signs which might indicate overexposure to hazards
OSHA 10-Hour Safety Certification
OSHA requires that all employees be trained to recognize the hazards that exist in their workplace, about safety rules that apply for the work they do, and in the safe working practices to accomplish their work.
This class starts with OSHA Regulations for the Construction Industry. Your employees attending this session leave with a much better understanding of the structure of these rules, where to go to learn more, and the most frequently cited violations for each part.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Scaffolds and Ladders
- Excavation and Trenching/Shoring
- Electrical Safety
- Floor and Wall Openings
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Health Hazards
- Concrete and Masonry Construction
- Steel Erection
- Material Handling
- Power Tools
- Welding and Cutting
- Heavy Equipment Operation
OSHA 30-Hour Safety Certification
This extended three-day course is designed for individuals responsible for implementing, managing and enforcing workplace safety efforts. Class curriculum provides a detailed, cross-referenced awareness of OSHA construction standards and their job site implementation. Syllabus includes: regulatory requirements; safety/health/environmental controls; personal protective equipment; materials handling; fire prevention; hand and portable power tools; electrical safety . . . and more. You will receive a 30-Hour OSHA Outreach card.
OSHA 40-Hour Safety Certification
This 40 Hour Course is designed for workers who are involved in clean up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
The purpose of this course is to ensure awareness and promote safety among employees who may be exposed to chemical hazards in the work-site. The objective is to ensure that employees operate in the safest possible manner in situations where contact with potentially hazardous materials is likely.
At the conclusion of the course, students will:
- Understand how hazardous materials are handled, identified, and human responses to exposure
- Learn the importance of the Health and Safety Plan (HSP)
- Incorporate knowledge of what to do in case of site emergencies
- Use appropriate safety methods and work practice controls
- Recognize signs and labels that are used to alert personnel of danger involving hazardous material
- Receive certification for HAZWOPER training
