This course covers the scope and application of OSHA construction standards, as well as construction site safety and health principles with special emphasis on areas most hazardous using OSHA standards as a guide. Upon course completion students will have the ability to define construction safety and health terms found in the Standards and Subparts, identify hazards which occur on construction sites, locate appropriate subparts, interpretations and resources, and describe the use of OSHA Standards and regulations to supplement an ongoing safety and health program. Participants learn through facilitated discussion, exercises, and activities. Covered are the effects of workplace injuries and illnesses, the mission and importance of OSHA in the workplace,  organization, origin, codification of OSHA Standards, processes and rules for OSHA inspections, citations, penalties and policies, with an orientation to OSHA recordkeeping requirements for injuries and illnesses, OSHA safety and health management programs, and an understanding ‘how to’ use the 29 CFR 1926 Construction Standards Code of Federal Regulations. Participants must attend all modules and pass a multiple choice examination for successful course completion.

In this course we present OSHA’s noise standards, properties of sound, noise-induced hearing loss, noise exposure control, selection and use of hearing protection, concepts of conducting sound level surveys and worker training. An effective written hearing protection program includes policies and procedures which the course participant will become familiar.  Also covered are basic physics of sound and vibration, anatomy and physiology of the ear and the hearing process, effects of noise on hearing, monitoring, noise control engineering, selection and demonstration of hearing protective devices and the role of audiometric testing. At the conclusion of the course, the participant will understand properties of sound and its relationship to noise-induced hearing loss, hearing loss prevention, hearing protection policies.