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COURSE CATALOG January 2010

For HealtH, SaFety and environmental education A Project of the United Steelworkers, the Labor Institute

and the Communications Workers of America.

Health and Safety

January 2010COURSE CATALOG

If your local union is interested in finding out more about these orother health, safety and environment training opportunities,contact the USW Health, Safety and Environment Department [email protected] or call (412) 562-2581.

If you are interested in arranging for any health and safety trainingprogram, contact your District Staff Representative.

40-Hour HAZWOPER Class



8-Hour HAZWOPER Refresher Class

OSHA - 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Training

OSHA - 30 hour General Industry Outreach Training

OSHA COURSE #511

Building Power Through Health and Safety: Involving Our

Members, Strengthening Our Committees, Getting

Problems Addressed and Building our Local Unions

Industrial Process Safety Management Training

Hazard Mapping

Near-miss Prevention Project

Incident Investigation Project

TOP – The Triangle of Prevention Program

Train the Trainer Courses

Worker Centered Train the Trainer

OSHA Outreach Trainer Training

OSHA COURSE #501

OSHA COURSE #503

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HAZWOPER 40-hour is required training for workers at uncontrolled hazardous wasteoperations sites, as regulated by the government.

This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations,voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, ortreatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Topics includeprotection against hazardous chemicals, elimination of hazardous chemicals, safety ofworkers and the environment, and OSHA regulations. This course covers topics included in29 CFR 1910.120. A certificate of completion and a card will be issued as a result of thesuccessful completion of this class.

(The TMC receives funding from the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIEHS) that provides for scholarships. Contact us to see if you qualify.)

Note: OSHA requires additional employer provided site specific training prior to workers being eligible to be assigned to the workplace.

This HAZWOPER 24-hour training program provides requisite training for workers visiting an uncontrolled hazardous waste operation site or working at a treatment storage or disposal site (TSD), as regulated by the government.

This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER requirements to provide workers important information they need to work at and around the hazardous sites and has devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. While identifying different types of hazards, the course also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120. A certificate of completion and a card will be issued as a result of the successful completion of this class.


Note: OSHA requires additional employer provided site specific training prior to workers being eligible to be assigned to the workplace.

HAZWOPER Class

HAZWOPER Class 24

40

Hour

Hour $625

$375

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER).


Cost includes class room instruction and all materials


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This HAZWOPER 32-hour training program provides requisite training for workers visitingan uncontrolled hazardous waste operation site or working at a treatment storage or disposalsite (TSD), as regulated by the government. This course covers the required elements of the24-hour HAZWOPER training and adds an additional 8 hours of training on respiratoryprotection awareness and personal protective equipment up to level A, fully encapsulatedsuits with supplied air respirators. This training is not a substitute for the required employerprovided respiratory protection training that is part of a site’s respiratory protectionprogram.This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA hasdeveloped the HAZWOPER program requirements to provide workers important informationthey need to work at and around the hazardous sites and has devised extensive regulations toensure their safety and health. While identifying different types of hazards, the course alsosuggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at thework place. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120. A 24-Hour HAZWOPER certificate of completion and a card will be issued as a result of the successful completion of this class. The additional respiratory protection awareness training will benoted on the certificate.


This course is designed to meet the requirements in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 for eight hoursof annual refresher training for workers at hazardous waste sites. This course is designed forgeneral site workers who remove hazardous waste or who are exposed or potentially exposedto hazardous substances or health hazards. Topics include HAZWOPER regulations, safetyand health plans, hazardous chemicals, safety hazards, air monitoring, medical surveillance,site control, decontamination, personal protective equipment, and respiratory equipment.Throughout the course, the participants will review the basic OSHA requirements and how tohandle hazardous materials on a waste site or a Treat Storage or Disposal site (TSD). Afterthe course completion, they will have practiced their expertise in identifying hazards andtheir characteristics. Participants will be able to suggest steps to be taken to minimizehazards. Decontamination and emergency procedures will be reviewed. A certificate ofcompletion and a card will be issued as a result of the successful completion of this class.

(The TMC receives funding from the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIEHS) thatprovides for scholarships. Contact us to see if you qualify.)

HAZWOPER Class

HAZWOPER Class 8

32

Hour

Hour $500

$125





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REFRESHER

This course is ideal for worker safety and health awareness. Participants will be introduced toOSHA policies, procedures and standards, as well as general industry safety and healthprinciples covered in OSHA’s general industry standards. Using OSHA standards as a guide,special emphasis will be placed on the most hazardous topics.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an OSHA generalindustry safety and health 10-hour course completion card from the Department of Labor.


This course is a comprehensive safety program designed for anyone involved with health andsafety in workplaces covered by OSHA’s general industry requirements. OSHA recommendsoutreach training programs as an orientation to occupational safety and health forworkers. The program provides extensive information on OSHA compliance issues.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an OSHA generalindustry safety and health 30-hour course completion card from the Department of Labor.


OSHA Class

OSHA Class

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$150

$350

General Industry Outreach Training

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This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as general industrysafety and health principles. This class is a prerequisite for the OSHA #501 Trainers Course.Students will receive an OSHA general industry safety and health 30-hour course completioncard from the Department of Labor.


OSHA Course #511 $400 Cost includes class room instruction and all materials

This course will help USW local unions across all industry sectors have stronger influenceand power in their interaction with management on health and safety. The course hasparticular elements that will help your local union strengthen committees, increase memberinvolvement, and gain experience with various tools and laws to get even tough, longstandinghealth and safety issues addressed. It is designed for local union officers, health andsafety representatives and committee members, negotiating teams, grievers/stewards andother local union leaders and activists. Depending on the topic areas selected, this course canrange from several hours to several days. If your local is having problems or seekingassistance in any of the following areas, this course can help:

• Understanding a Union Approach to Health and Safety – Union and Worker Roles in Health and Safety

• Establishing and Strengthening Local Union Safety and Health Committees

• Increasing the Effectiveness of Joint Labor-Management Health and Safety Committees

• Identifying and Addressing Health and Safety Impacts of Work Restructuring and Other Workplace Changes (covering new technologies; work organization factors such as downsizing/ understaffing, extended working hours, production pressures, work overload, job combinations; new/changed management policies, and other changes)

• Work-related Stress: Identifying and eliminating or reducing the causes and sources of workplace stress

• Confronting “Blame-the-Worker” Safety Programs: Ending or Preventing Behavior-Based Safety Programs and Putting the Focus Back on Finding and Fixing Hazards (covering safety incentive programs, injury discipline policies, postinjury drug testing, behavioral safety observation programs and other programs that give the message “if you get injured, it’s your fault!”)

• Preventing Employer Fraud: Making Sure Injury and Illness Logs and Records (such as OSHA 300 Logs) are Truthful, and Using Them to Find and Fix Hazards

Building Power Through Health and Safety:Involving Our Members, Strengthening Our Committees, Getting Problems Addressedand Building our Local Unions

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Cost: Contact the USW Health, Safety and Environment Department for information.

• “Continuous Bargaining” Over Health and Safety: A Strategic Approach to Developing Successful Campaigns, Involving Members, Getting Problems Addressed and Building Power

• Hazard Identification Methods for Local Unions (including body, hazard and life mapping; creating and conducting local union health and safety surveys; and more)

• Hazard Control: Selecting Effective Hazard Control Methods Using the “Hierarchy of Controls”

• A Union Approach to Ergonomics

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This 8-hour training acquaints participants with the basic elements of the OSHA processsafety management (PSM) standard and why each regulated workplace needs to establish aPSM organizational structure to oversee its program implementation. The course introducesthe concept of systems of safety and accident prevention; allows the trainees to becomefamiliar with the OSHA performance-based requirements for a workplace “mechanicalintegrity” program; and examines the causes and solutions of “breakdown” maintenance. Italso touches on conducting accident, incident, and near-miss investigations, focusing on rootcauses.


This 8-hour training program allows participants to develop a hazard map to identify andlocate hazards which can be targeted for elimination through a cooperative group effort.Systems of safety are used to analyze the effectiveness of proposed fixes for identifiedhazards. Workers in all industries can benefit from specific hazard identification techniquesand learn strategies to encourage elimination or chemical substitution of known hazards andsubstances.


Note: This workbook is available in Spanish

Industrial Process Safety Management Training

Hazard Mapping

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$125



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This 8-hour training acquaints participants with the basic elements of the OSHA processsafety management (PSM) standard and why each regulated workplace needs to establish aPSM organizational structure to oversee its program implementation. The course introducesthe concept of systems of safety and accident prevention; allows the trainees to becomefamiliar with the OSHA performance-based requirements for a workplace “mechanicalintegrity” program; and examines the causes and solutions of “breakdown” maintenance. Italso touches on conducting accident, incident, and near-miss investigations, focusing on rootcauses.


This 24-hour course uses activities to introduce and demonstrate systems of safety as avehicle to apply fixes to root causes. Class activities allow participants to be a part of aninvestigation team in identifying root causes using logic tree analysis. Participants will usesample incidents and/or near-miss incidents from their workplace practice their skills as theylearn to identify root causes of incidents and recommend solutions to control the hazards.

(The TMC receives funding from the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIEHS) thatprovides for scholarships. Contact us to see if you qualify.) (This course is included in theprice of TOP)

Near-Miss Prevention Project

Incident Investigation Project

$125

$125



TOP is an integrated incident and near miss investigation program based on involving the union and its membership in hazard identification and control. The USW-TMC hasdeveloped and facilitates this joint labor-management program at more than 40 worksites.The success of this program is based on real and meaningful worker involvement at all levelsof the workplace coupled with a commitment to support the program and recognize thathazards and unsafe conditions cause injuries and illness in the workplace.

TOP ClassThe Triangle of Prevention Program

$180$35

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person (years 2+)

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Train the Trainer Courses

Worker Centered Train the Trainer $625Cost includes class room instruction and all materials

40Hour

This 40 hour course is a fast-paced, interactive training on the worker centered method oftraining and specific workbook materials. The new trainers will practice facilitating classeswith their peers. Trainers will learn how to facilitate using the training values of the TonyMazzocchi Center. They will learn how to show respect for worker knowledge and make it abasis of the learning experience. Trainers will also learn how to help their brothers and sistersovercome apathy by sharing the power and help them to work collectively to identify andeliminate hazards in the workplace. This course gives union activists an opportunity to trainand involve the entire workforce in health and safety. The worker to worker training iseffective in mobilizing groups to target specific areas of concern or subjects.

(The TMC receives funding from the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIEHS) thatprovides for scholarships. Contact us to see if you qualify.) (This course is included in theprice of TOP)

This course is designed for personnel in the private sector interested in teaching the 10- and30-hour general industry safety and health outreach program to employees and otherinterested groups. The prerequisites are five years of general industry safety experience andcompletion of Course #511.


This course provides an update on OSHA General Industry standards. It is required everyfour years for personnel in the private sector who have completed #501 and who are activetrainers in the outreach program.


OSHA Course #501

OSHA Course #503

$650

$500



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