Seminars
Each year, we're proud to offer our series of Seminars in Safety Training.
View schedule and registration information. Learn about our Webinars.
Basic First Aid/CPR
This course meets the most recent Guidelines for Basic First Aid & CPR. Standard First Aid Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting Yourself from Blood borne Pathogens, Prioritizing Care, Sudden Illnesses, Wounds, Injuries to Muscles/Bones/Joints, and Heat/Cold Emergencies. Adult CPR Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting You, Prioritizing Care, and Cardiac Emergencies. The course is great for First Providers in the workplace.
CPR Refresher
This course is the annual review for those certified in CPR. The course reviews: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting Yourself, Prioritizing Care, Rescue Breathing, and Cardiac Emergencies.
30 Hour Occupational Safety and Health for the Construction Industry
This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA construction standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. Upon successful course completion, the student will receive an OSHA construction safety and health 30-hour course completion card.
10-Hour Health & Safety in Construction
This course covers mandated policies, procedures, and standards, as well as safety and health principles. Topics include scope and application of the construction standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous, using the standards as a guide. Upon successful course completion, the student will receive an OSHA construction safety and health 10-hour completion certificate card.
Safety Programs for Small Businesses
This seminar focuses on the four core elements of an effective safety and health management system: management leadership and employee involvement; worksite analysis; hazard prevention and control; and safety and health training. The goal of the seminar is to review the standards as they relate to your business, relate to how to train your staff on the pertinent information, and understand the benefits of implementing a safety and health management system in the workplace.
Machine Guarding Webinar
This 1½ hour webinar will discuss the OSHA standards regarding various forms of guarding, such as point of operation guards, guards at nip points, or moving points. We will show and discuss the various materials you can use to build guards and the types of guards that make sense for various applications.
Backs 101
This class will educate individuals on various forms of injuries from strains and sprains, to ruptures and herniated discs. We will pay particular attention to these injuries within the workplace, discussing how to remove risk factors as well as how to mitigate them if the risk can not be avoided. This class is good for supervisors, managers, or anyone wanting more information on how to avoid back injuries in the workplace. Please bring photos in electronic format of examples (of risk factors at your organization) for discussion.
Hiring Subs & Your Responsibilities
This course is ideal for supervisors and management. Anyone that hires a Subcontractor acts as a General Contractor, in some form. Do you know you have obligations under the OSHA Act for the subcontractors to be safe in your workplace or your jobsite? The course focuses on Creating Employer, Exposing Employer, Correcting Employer, Controlling Employer, Construction Management, and Multiple Roles as a General Contractor and/or Subcontractor and how the roles differ. A review of different safety contract components will be reviewed, as well as the mandated standards and where the exposures exist.
MSHA 8 Hour Refresher
Join us for the mandated refresher, topics to include: the Statutory Rights, Hazard Communication Part 47, Tool Safety, Personal Protective Equipment, Ladder Safety, Site Specifics in your workplace, machine guarding, emergency planning, electrical safety, fire prevention and more.
The Focus "4" Hazards for Construction
This course is specifically designed for business owners, managers, or employees with the task of implementing safety initiatives. In this course you will learn: Knowledge & skills required to recognize hazards; OSHA-identified focus four hazard areas which include Falls, Electrocution, Excavation & Trenching and Strucky-by; Prevention strategies;
Recognize risk taking behaviors & the importance of identifying, controlling, and eliminating common construction hazards.
Ergonomic Strategies Part 1 & 2
This course is an ergonomic workshop designed as a 2-Part Series. Not only will you gain a better understanding of body mechanics, the physiology of body muscular skeletal Injuries, but you will have a chance to make a change in one or more areas of your current work environment. At the end of Part I, you will have enough information go back to your work environment and choose an area to evaluate and change for better ergonomic positioning. When you return to the second part of the class, you will discuss with the class your findings and thoughts. The class will work as a team to support each other’s work and make any additionally suggestions if needed.
Introduction to Safety and Health Management
This seminar focuses on the four core elements of an effective safety and health management system: management leadership and employee involvement; worksite analysis; hazard prevention and control; and safety and health training.
30 Hour Occupational Safety and Health for General Industry
This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as General Industry safety and health principles. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA construction standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. Upon successful course completion, the student will receive an OSHA safety and health 30-hour course completion card.
Workplace Violence Webinar
The Workplace Violence Webinar teaches employees practical skills to prevent and respond properly to threats, abuse, and violent behavior that employees may face from coworkers, customers, vendors, or strangers in their workplace. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), there are 2 million assaults and threats of violence against Americans at work annually. In addition to assaults and threats, a substantial number of employees report being bullied or harassed on the job. This webinar will cover how to communicate your organization's commitment to employee health and safety, as well as give employees practical skills for preventing, responding to, and reporting incidents of workplace violence.
Responsibilities of a Competent Person
Who is a Competent Person? A Competent Person is someone who, through training and/or experience, is knowledgeable of the various OSHA standards that apply to their workplace, is capable of identifying workplace hazards relating to their specific operations, and has the authority invested in him or her by their employer to correct the hazards to protect workers. Therefore, it is the responsibility of Employers to determine who the Competent Person(s) for their particular construction sites is. This seminar helps you identify what areas you need a Competent Person in and what training and resources you will need for them to be a resourceful Competent Person.
Analyzing Strains and Sprains in the Workplace
This class will discuss ergonomic injuries due to repetitive motion. We will look at various methods to help remove the risk, such as engineering controls, process controls, or administrative controls. This is a workshop based class, so please bring either some video footage or electronic pictures of high risk areas in your workplace. This will allow each group to work as a team brainstorming options to help reduce the risk.
Blood Born Pathogens
This 1-hour course is designed to fulfill the annual requirement for blood born pathogens. This course discusses diseases in the blood such as hepatitis and HIV and the ways they can be transferred to others if not protected. It covers personal hygiene, the personal protection requirement, spill cleanup, the post exposure program and more.
Hazard Communications
This 1-hour course is designed to fulfill the annual requirement for Hazard Communication. This course covers Chemical Safety, Chemical Labeling, Material Safety data sheets, Inventory requirements, Routes of entry, Acute vs. Chronic Symptoms, and much more.
Fall Prevention & Protection
This course is designed for workers and supervisors to apply recognized control measures to eliminate or reduce hazards. Various standards will be covered as well as workshop on the use of fall arrest equipment and hazard analysis of various fall potentials on the job before they occur-pre planning the job.
Body Mechanics
This course is ideal for supervisors and management. Statistics say that 20% of injuries are caused from poor ergonomic equipment. The balances, or 80% of injuries, are due to poor body mechanics. Some of the injuries you may be familiar with are: carpel tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, and rotator cuff injuries to name a few. This class will teach you some of the reasons for these injuries, show you ways to make changes and help prevent and reduce the risk of MSDs or Muscular Skeletal Disorders. This seminar is great for HR professionals, safety professionals, design engineers and supervisors.
10-Hour General Industry Course
This course is ideal for supervisors and employees. The course focuses on specific mandated areas to discuss: Introduction to OSHA, the General Duty Clause, Hazard Communication, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, Electrical/Lockout Tagout, Stairways/Ladders, Confined Spaces and Fire Protection/Welding, Machine Guarding, Ergonomics, and Means of Egress. Upon successful course completion, each attendee receives an OSHA wallet card.
General Contractor & Subcontractor Responsibilities
This course is ideal for supervisors and management. The course focuses on Creating Employer, Exposing Employer, Correcting Employer, Controlling Employer, Construction Management, and Multiple Roles as a General Contractor and/or Subcontractor and how the roles differ. A review of different safety contract components will be reviewed. As well as the mandated standards and where the exposures exist.
Defensive Driving (Webinar)
This 1-hour course is designed to counter bad driving habits. This course covers the proactive driver versus the reactive driver, safe backing & parking, vehicle positioning, cushion of safety, the distracted driver, road rage, handling blind spots, weather conditions, tailgating, and more.
Defensive Driving (Seminar)
This 3-hour course is designed to refresh the driver on safe habits. The course focuses on the Distracted Driver-and what we now encounter on the road, The Aggressive Driver, Safe Backing & Parking, Vehicle Positioning, Cushion of Safety, Right-turn Procedures, Scanning, Blind spots, Safety Devices, Handling Blind Spots, Weather Conditions, Vehicle Inspection, Speeding, Weather Conditions, Tailgating, and Driving in Commercial/Retail Areas.
New Employee Orientation
This seminar is excellent for anyone responsibly for the orientation process in the workplace. The seminar will cover: How to setup a formal program; What will work best for your company; How to maintain the Orientation Program and Important Ideas to Include; General Safety Rules & Policies; hazard Communication & Chemical Safety Procedures; Control of blood borne pathogens; and Procedures for safety violations, accidents and near-misses.
The Aging Workforce Webinar
The workforce is aging now more than ever due to the largest generation, the baby boomers, moving into their 50’s and 60’s. What does this mean for overall safety and productivity? How can you as an HR, safety professional or supervisor prepare for this? What are things you need to know so that you can help prevent injuries in the aging workforce? The Aging Workforce Webinar will be based on the most recent research from several sources. We will identify what the needs are of the aging workforce, as well as ways to help prevent injury to one of your most valuable assets, the older worker.
Maintaining Effective Safety Committees
This course is ideal for supervisors and any member of the safety committee, including the committee chair. Many safety committees struggle with keeping the committee active and interesting. This seminar is designed to offer tips to assist current committees in keeping their committees thriving. Time will also be spent on how to set up an effective committee, who should be on the committee, ideas for committee meetings, committee responsibilities and committee incentives.
Safety Incentive Programs Webinar
What is the best way to incentivize for safety? What are the best incentive programs out there and why? How do you know that incentives are really working, when indeed they could be causing employees not to report injuries? All this and more will be discussed in this Webinar that is good for any supervisor, manager, or HR person.
Health Hazards in Construction
This seminar introduces the practical concepts and principles of industrial hygiene with an emphasis on health hazards found in the construction environment. Coverage will include general industrial hygiene concepts (i.e., anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control), as well as construction-specific health hazards such as silica, asbestos, heavy metals, nuisance dust and noise.
Defensive Driving Update
This 3-hour course is designed to refresh the driver on safe habits. The Course Focuses on the Distracted Driver-and what we now encounter on the road, The Aggressive Driver, Safe Backing & Parking, Vehicle Positioning, Cushion of Safety, Right-turn Procedures, Scanning, Blind spots, Safety Devices, Handling Blind Spots, Weather Conditions, Vehicle Inspection, Speeding, Weather Conditions, Tailgating, and Driving in Commercial/Retail Areas.
Keeping Workers Healthy in the Workplace
Whether you are running a business yourself, working for one, or doing both, you may think the last thing you need to worry about is health at work. How will you keep your workers healthy this winter season? This course will answer
that as well as teach other ways to keep your workers healthy and on the job.We're proud to partner with GUARD Insurange Group to provide this seminar.
Building a Safety Committee Webinar
Where do you start when building a safety committee? In this webinar, we will discuss the various types of safety committees, what the “best practices” are, and who the members are. We will look at types of safety committee(s), roles and duties of each respective committee, and discuss which may be best for your organization.
10-Hour Construction Course
This course is ideal for supervisors, foremen, employees, and sometimes even Project Managers. The course focuses on 10 areas to discuss: Introduction to OSHA, the Competent Person, the General Duty Clause, Hazard Communication, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, Excavation/Trenching, Scaffolding, Fall Protection, Electrical/Lockout Tagout, Stairways/Ladders, Confined Spaces and Fire Protection/Welding. Upon successful course completion, each attendee receives an OSHA wallet card.
“OSHA” Update
This seminar offers the cost-effective solutions you need to keep your people safe-and to assist in audits. You'll get a comprehensive update on the very latest in OSHA's requirements. You'll gain an understanding of the basics of OSHA record-keeping, review the top 10 most common OSHA violations, get tips for using proactive safety audit tools and discover smart ways to prevent accidents from happening.
Standard First Aid/CPR
This course meets the most recent Guidelines for Basic First Aid & CPR. Standard First Aid Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting Yourself from Blood borne Pathogens, Prioritizing Care, Sudden Illnesses, Wounds, Injuries to Muscles/Bones/Joints, and Heat/Cold Emergencies. Adult CPR Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting You, Prioritizing Care, and Cardiac Emergencies. The course is great for First Providers in the workplace.
