News Update
September 15, 2021
Hazard Preparedness Planning for Your Business
Businesses and their staff face a variety of hazards:
 
  • Natural hazards like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes
  • Health hazards such as widespread and serious illnesses, including COVID-19 and the flu
  • Human-caused hazards, including workplace accidents and acts of violence
  • Technology-related hazards, including power outages and equipment failure
 
The Ready Business Program can help business leaders create a preparedness plan to respond to the most likely hazards their businesses could face. Key steps in preparedness planning include:

  • Identifying Your Risk
  • Developing A Plan
  • Taking Action
  • Being Recognized and Inspiring Others

The Ready Business Program offers tools for continuity, preparedness and mitigation planning. Learn More
Ready Business Toolkits
 
The Ready Business Toolkit series offers preparedness planning guidance for earthquake, power outage, inland flooding, hurricane and severe wind/tornado hazards. Toolkits provide business leaders step-by-step plans to help them establish preparedness within an organization.
Learn to recognize, evaluate, prevent and abate hazards associated with confined space entry. Topics include the recognition of confined space hazards, information about instrumentation to evaluate atmospheric hazards, and ventilation techniques.

October 4-6, 2021
VILT via Zoom
Learn OSHA's requirements for developing a permit-required space program. Topics include scope and definitions, general requirements, training and worker roles and rescue..

October 8, 2021
VILT via Zoom
Workers Exposed to Confined Space Hazards Must Be Protected
Many employers are not aware of their responsibilities under OSHA’s General Industry Permit-Required Confined Space Standard regarding workers who are exposed to the hazards of confined spaces. Employers must identify all potential hazards, develop written safety and rescue procedures, and provide training and protective equipment to workers to eliminate or greatly reduce the risks of working in confined spaces and to maintain full OSHA compliance. Learn More
 
OSHA has published Protecting Construction Workers in Confined Spaces: Small Entity Compliance Guide to help employers and workers understand their requirements under the Confined Spaces in Construction Standard. The 57-page guide covers a wide range of topics, including employer responsibilities, overview of the standard, identifying permit spaces, worker training, rescue and emergency services, and permit-required confined space program and entry permit samples. See also OSHA’s Confined Spaces in Construction webpage.
OSHA advises that talking about mental health and suicide at work can save lives.
“Keeping teen workers safe is everyone’s job!”
Slips, trips, and falls are leading causes of teen worker injuries, but most are easily preventable. For a safer workplace, encourage workers to clean up spills, move clutter out of walkways and wear rubber-soled shoes.

For more ideas on how to keep young workers safe, visit KeepTeenWorkersSafe.org.
UPCOMING CLASSES
In-Person Classes: Physical distancing and other safety guidelines are followed in all In-Person classes, and class sizes are reduced.
In Region IX OSHA numbered Virtual, Instructor-Led classes offered via Zoom are only available to participants located in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Contact us if you are unsure if this applies to you.

The OSHA Training Institute Education Center offers a range of books and learning tools, including:

~ 29 CFR1910 General Industry Standards
~ 29 CFR1926 Construction Industry Standards
~ Fall Protection: Complete OSHA Regulations

Our Online OSHA Training Portal offers 10-Hour and 30-Hour Construction and 10-Hour General Industry classes, allowing you to take these classes at your own pace at your location. Get your OSHA 30-HR or 10-HR card with these 100% online classes that are OSHA-Authorized and valid nationwide for Construction and General Industry. Visit our OSHA Training Portal.
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The OSHA Training Institute Education Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District offers high quality OSHA standards-based training for construction, maritime, disaster site and general industries in Northern, Central and Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.

OSHA classes are offered as Virtual Instructor-Led Training via Zoom and also In-Person in select locations following physical distancing and other strict COVID-19 safety guidelines. In-person class sizes are reduced in size, so early registration is strongly advised. Visit our website for a current class schedule.

We are back in the office and available to respond to your inquiries at otc@clpccd.org or 866-936-6742.

The OSHA Training Institute Education Center Catalog features information on our training programs, including overviews and class descriptions, enrollment policies and course delivery options. Download the OSHA Training Catalog or Request a Catalog by Mail.

The recommendations in this newsletter are advisory in nature, informational in content, and intended to assist employers in providing a safe and healthful workplace.