This course covers several topics within six class dates to prepare construction supervisors for a variety of issues that may arise on a jobsite involving physical and/or psychological safety.
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Course Descriptions
The Role of OSHA (1 session)
Taught by David Webb, Director of Safety & Training, American Steel & Precast Erectors
This course covers the supervisor’s role in jobsite safety, the true cost of accidents, and how to train and involve all employees in job safety. Topics will include:
- OSHA record keeping
- Explain safety responsibilities of project supervisors.
- Learn how to conduct a job safety analysis – a procedure for identifying and documenting safety hazards before they occur, and recommending control measures to prevent them
- Determine the real cost of accidents, including direct and indirect costs.
- Identify the basic components of a safety program.
- Explain how to conduct a safety inspection and employee observation.
- Describe how to address a worker who was observed performing an unsafe act.
- Explain how to perform an accident investigation and complete the necessary report forms.
- Identify the components of effective safety meetings.
- Define qualified person and competent person.
- Learn how to manage OSHA safety inspections.
Preconstruction Planning (2 sessions)
Taught by Donald Olesen, Principle Consultant at NuTera Safety Solutions
Proper construction pre-planning can mean the difference between a job that comes in on time and under budget and one that negatively impacts your reputation as a contractor. It can also mean the difference between a safe job and one that suffers serious accidents. This course addresses many concepts that will assist in protecting workers, protecting the company and significantly assisting in compliance efforts. In this 4-hour course, the instructor will provide a guide to be used in effective construction project pre-planning. More details
Secure Construction (1 session)
Taught by BlueU Defense
Part 1 - Surviving the Life or Death Gap
This course is typically provided as a foundational level course to all levels of the corporate environment. Successfully surviving a sudden incident of violence is 90% mental and 10% physical skill. This course focuses on the 90% mental while concurrently providing skills to survive the 10% physical, as a last resort. During this live training, the primary focus will be on the “Life or Death Gap”. The “Life or Death Gap” is the period of time that you know and understand that you are in danger, and it expands to the time that you are no longer in any danger and the situation is over. It is during this time that there is no one there to save you and the decisions you make may mean the difference between survival or not.
Our Surviving an Incident of Violence Course provides a solid foundation for gaining the skills necessary to prepare for “making good decisions in fractions of a second”. This is what is required to survive – the skill to be able to make “Good Decisions in Fractions of a Second”. This course brings critical general skills in mastering the decision-making process by bringing students a solid understanding of “the bad guy”.
We also cover Practical Personal Defense designed to keep your employees safe while away from work via preparation for an incident of violence primarily through awareness, avoidance, and mental strength building. If your people are your most important asset, they are just as important while they are away from work as they are while at work. This material includes 100% practical, highly effective tactics and techniques that do not require practice or thought training
Part 2 - Recognizing & Understanding Substance Abuse in the Workplace and Home
Drugs and addiction are potentially the most dangerous threat to our society. No matter how large or small the organization, the state the organization is located in, or the type of industry, it is likely you have a substance abuse problem at your workplace, today! How drugs are impacting business, family, and society in general is critical to dealing effectively with “The Life or Death Gap”. When it comes to drug addiction, there is a “Life or Death Gap”. The problem is that understanding and knowing when it starts can be key to saving lives. Additionally, we have found that most people have no idea what drug addiction looks like and, as a result, we typically miss the signs that “The Life or Death Gap” has been initiated in an employee, student, or loved one. If you are someone who thinks – “not my kid” – Think Again!
This problem has no boundaries when it comes to social status, financial status, or religious status. It doesn’t matter how good your kids are now, how good they been in the past, how good and loving your family unit is, educational success, etc. This danger can impact anyone regardless!
The key is understanding what this problem looks like, knowing and understanding the signs and symptoms, and how to deal with an addiction problem both as a business and as a family unit.
The Blue-U Defense Drugs in the Workplace and Family Course has been called “the most impactful training I’ve ever experienced”. It is critical to the safety and security of your business, your employees, and your families. In this course, you will learn about and see the signs and symptoms of use, peak high, withdrawal, paraphernalia, current drugs, and current trends.
Construction Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention (1 session)
Taught by Jennifer Landon, Vice President of Education and Workforce Development at ABC NH/VT
Part 1 – Mental Health Awareness
Mental health is a significant concern for workers in the construction industry. Participants will discover a variety reasons why mental health disorders are so prevalent in the construction industry, learn the difference between mental health challenges and mental illness, and gain a better understanding of the impact of grief in the workplace.
Part 2 – Construction Suicide Prevention
The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that men working in construction have one of the highest suicide rates by population: their rate of suicide is about four times higher than the general population and is the second-highest rate of all workplace industries at 45 per 100,000. This topic includes videos, group discussions/exercises, and roleplays to create a better understanding of your role in suicide prevention in the construction industry:
• Design: Learn the importance of talking about suicide in the construction industry
• Bid: Identify risk factors and warning signs
• Build: Practice conversations around suicide
Goals of this training are to promote critical thinking about suicide prevention, create an open dialogue about mental health and promote help-seeking and help-giving behaviors. After the training, participants feel knowledgeable about suicide prevention, confident talking about suicide and getting help and are likely to apply what they have learned.
Crisis Management: When Disaster Strikes (1 session)
Offered by Hinkley Allen