Price Hike to Happen on OSHA Outreach Trainings

Starting 2012, procedural improvements and requirement changes in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Outreach Training Program take effect to reflect the need to tighten the quality control of outreach classes as well as of authorized trainers. 

OSHACampus.com, the largest provider of OSHA training in the U.S. today, has already instituted the changes in its OSHA programs, including in its OSHA 10 Hour Training and OSHA 30 Hour Training courses.

"Trainer reliability will be enhanced and classes will focus more on fulfilling students' needs for safety and health training," explained Dr. David Michael, the assistant secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.

The Outreach Training Program is an OSHA initiative to promote workplace safety and health. The program uses a national network of over 17,000 independent, OSHA-authorized trainers who instruct and orient workers and employers on OSHA, on workers' rights, and on how to identify, reduce, and avoid or prevent hazards in the workplace. The program also instructs workers on how to file a complaint with OSHA.

It’s not a Department of Labor (DoL) requirement yet, but in today’s safety- and health-conscious work environments (an OSHA requirement), employers almost always look for an OSHA Outreach Training Program completion card from construction or general-industry work applicants.

The OSHA 10 Hour Training course is designed for entry-level workers to help them to recognize, reduce, and prevent hazards in the workplace. The OSHA 30 Hour Training class, on the other hand, is intended for supervisors or workers with some safety responsibilities to orient them in all OSHA compliance issues. OSHA recommends these Outreach Training courses as excellent introductions to occupational safety and health for workers covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1926. These workers, however, must later acquire supplemental training (when required by OSHA standards) on the specific hazards of their jobs.

At OSHACampus.com both OSHA 10 Hour Training and OSHA 30 Hour Training are available as a Construction Outreach Training Course (OSHA 10 Construction, OSHA 30 Construction) or as a General Industry Outreach Training Course (OSHA 10 General, OSHA 30 General).

After completion of either OSHA 10 or OSHA 30, the worker receives a DoL course-completion card within four to six weeks from OSHACampus.com, the largest OSHA-online training provider in the U.S. today. 

The OSHA-mandated changes are expected not only to bring in expensive technologies into the program but also to cause an overhaul of all online Outreach courses. In addition, new identity-validation requirements will require more steps to enroll in a course. All this is expected to increase the costs of the Outreach courses soon.

OSHACampus.com announced that its OSHA 10 Hour Training and OSHA 30 Hour Training are available at special prices (starting at $89) if they are purchased today.