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Well, here's an OSHA alliance that I think is one of the best ideas in a long time. The BOCES in the Finger Lakes of New York and OSHA have formed an alliance designed to train high school students in occupational safety. This will help prepare them when they take their places in the workplace and help develop a critical safety culture. In case you don't know, BOCES stands for Board of Cooperative Educational Services and it is a high school vocational school. In my home town, students from two counties could attend their "home school" for half a day and attend BOCES for the other half to learn a trade.
BOCES taught such things as mechanical trades (electrical, plumbing, etc.), carpentry, masonry, and other non-construction trades like printing, cosmetology, auto mechanics, etc. My Dad taught masonry in a BOCES school for about 30 years. So, teaching safety in BOCES (high school) has great potential to develop the safety culture for future workers. That isn't to say that vocational teachers didn't stress safety, but offering formal OSHA 10 or 30 hour construction classes, etc. will prepare future workers for the jobsite making it easier for employers to get the cooperation they need.
Congratulations BOCES & OSHA on forming a partnership that shows great promise. To read more about this alliance, click here.
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Many people bidding for some of these government funded construction projects will be left out in the cold if they do not have their OSHA training. Several states (NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, and MO) have laws requiring workers on publically-funded jobsites to take the OSHA 10 hour construction training class, like the ones available at www.osha10hourtraining.com . Without the OSHA card, they cannot get on the site. Many general contractors also have the same requirement for minimum OSHA training. So be prepared, do not wait until the last minute or you may be disqualified from getting onto the jobsite.
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ReplyDeleteWhile it is true that more and more states are requiring workers to have their OSHA 10 hour cards, the fact is that it has never been easier to get them. Online OSHA training, like that found at Easy Safety School - View Website Here, is not only easy, but it is roughly 1/3 the cost of on-site training.