• The State of Alabama, Department of Industrial Relations, State Program’s Division, www.dir.state.al.us/ does not appear to have any occupational health and safety training programs listed on their website.

Alaska

• The State of Alaska, Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Labor Standards and Safety Division, Occupational Safety and Health Section www.labor.state.ak.us/lss/oshhome.htm offers training to public and private sector employees and employers. Classes are offered free to the public. Completion of the class does not qualify the participant as "a certified, qualified and or a competent person.
  
  Class subjects include:

o Lockout/Tagout
o Forklift Operator Awareness
o Confined Space Entry
o Hazard Analysis for PPE*
o Needlestick Regulations
o Hazard Communication*
o Overview of the Alaska Department of Labor
o Blood Borne Pathogens*
o Elements of a Forklift Training Program*
o Alaska Teen Safety in the Workplace*
o Respiratory Protection
o Hearing Conservation
o Review of OSHA’s New 300 Log
o Fire Protection – Suppression.

                                Courses with asterisks denote Train the Trainer programs.

• The State of Arizona, Industrial Commission of Arizona, AZ Occupational Safety & Health (ADOSH), www.ica.state.az.us/ADOSH/oshatop.htm presents training programs at no charge to businesses and organizations.
  
  Course topics include:

o Construction Safety Management
o OSHA Recordkeeping
o Excavation Safety Awareness
o Confined Space Entry
o Forklift Train-the-Trainer
o Safety Management
o Lockout/Tagout
o Respiratory Protection
o Back Injury Prevention
o Hazard Communication
o Fall Protection

ADOSH also maintains a film library to provide films to businesses and organizations regarding safety and health issues.

Arkansas

• The State of Arkansas, Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, Education and Training Section, www.awcc.state.ar.us/safed.html provides training and educational materials. The website lists currently available literature under subject headings:

o  Health and Safety Program Management (10 subjects)
o Safety (14 subjects)
o Industrial Hygiene (5 subjects)
o 5-Minute Safety Talks (21 subjects)
o Tool Kits (5 subjects)

The website does not specify available training but offers phone, fax and email contacts for the Commission.

California

• The State of California, Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) www.dir.ca.gov/DOSH/dosh1.html has numerous publications that can be downloaded or ordered online. Orders are limited to ten (10) copies per title or up to fifty (50) copies for multiple titles.
  
  Publications are categorized as follows:

o General Information
o Job Safety Pamphlets
o Agriculture
o Bloodborne Pathogens
o Confined Space
o Construction
o Construction Ergonomics
o Consultation
o Electrical
o Environmental Tobacco Smoke
o Ergonomics
o Fact Sheets
o Hazard Alerts
o Hazard Communication
o Injury and Illness Prevention Program
o Lockout/Blockout
o Posters
o Recordkeeping
o Respiratory Protection
o Stress
o Tailgate/Toolbox Topics
o Workplace Security
o Young Workers

• The University of California at Berkeley, Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/ is a community outreach program that provide health and safety publications, training programs, a free library and a telephone reference service.

LOHP, in conjunction with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC), AFL-CIO, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Construction_Safety/construction_safety.html , are recipients of a federal OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grant to establish a "train the trainer" construction safety course in both English and Spanish. The curriculum, entitled "Tailgate Training for California Construction Workers" is available for purchase from LOHP in English and Spanish. LOHP and SBCTC intend to train 45-60 labor and management representatives and apprenticeship instructors on ergonomic injuries and construction fatalities. It is expected that theses trained individuals will then train their co-workers through classroom instruction.

In addition, LOHP, in conjunction with SBCTC, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Ergonomics/ergonomics.html presents ergonomics classes to "train the trainer" with union members. LOHP, has, in addition, conducted ergonomics workshops for home health care workers in Alameda County who are member of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 616 and University of California, Berkeley office workers.

LOHP, through its Hazardous Waste Project, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Hazardous_Waste/hazardous_waste.html provides both an 8-hour Annual Refresher and 24-hour Treatment, Storage, and Disposal (TSD) class for hazardous waste workers. Classes are given in English and Spanish and meet both federal OSHA and Cal OSHA training requirements. Class fees are $90 per person per day for English private sector employees and $70 per person per day for English public sector employees. Spanish classes are $70 per person per day for both private and public sector employees.

Class topics include:

o Emergency response
o Hazard Identification
o Legal rights and regulations
o Air monitoring
o Personal protective equipment

LOHP also offers, free of charge, a two-hour Hazardous Awareness class that complies with Cal OSHA Hazard Communication and Injury and Illness Prevention Program Standards. This course is designed for employees who handle toxic chemicals at small facilities. Classes are provided upon request, in English or Spanish, for a minimum of fifteen employees. Over 4,000 workers have been trained through this program since 1987.

LOHP, in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), Continuing Education, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~coehce/ offers accredited courses for practicing health and safety professionals. COEH is one of sixteen regional Education and Research Centers (ERCs) designated by NIOSH. In California, programs are located at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco and Davis. Upcoming courses at UC Berkeley include:

o   Advanced Office Ergonomics I, II and III Certificate Series (Northern California & Southern California)

o   Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders: Job and Worker Considerations for Preventing Disability

     o Comprehensive Review of Industrial Hygiene

o   2003 COEH Spring Symposium – Environmental and Occupational Health Policy: Getting Outcomes Right

     o Physical Assessment for Occupational Health Nurses
      
       o Fundamentals of Workplace Safety

o   Ergonomics of Occupational Whole-Body & Hand-Arm Vibration (NIOSH 596)

     o Respiratory Protection: Overview/Update

o   Workers’ Compensation: Overview/Update for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals

     o Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene

     o Core Curriculum in Environmental Health: Train the Trainer Workshop

o   Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) Course: Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Work Disabilities

     o Applied Industrial Ventilation: Local Exhaust and Indoor Aid Quality

     o Summer Institute Ergonomics Course

LOHP’s Environmental Justice Project, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Environmental_Justice/environmental_justice.html   works in partnership with the Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Projects are intended to help local communities that are excessively affected by air and water pollution, hazardous wastes and toxic chemicals. LOHP supports the Just Transition Alliance curriculum team with technical assistance. The Alliance provides training to community residents and employees who have been affected by facilities that pollute or create hazardous wastes. LOHP is planning training in environmental and workplace issues in the Summer 2003, in English, Spanish and other languages determined by class enrollment to environmental justice organizations.

LOHP’s HIV/AIDS Project, has been ongoing since the 1980’s. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/HIV_AIDS_Projects/hiv_aids_projects.html LOHP, with the AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies, has developed a training program entitled: AIDS in the Workplace. The printed curriculum, HIV/AIDS Manual for Union Leaders includes complete lesson plans, overheads, student handouts and a resource section. This curriculum can be purchased through the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, www.georgemeany.org.

LOHP has developed and published a Human Factors Curriculum for Refinery Workers, in conjunction with Contra Costa County’s Industrial Safety Ordinance, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Human_Factors/human_factors.html .  The course lasts a half-day, uses interactive teach methods, with small group exercises and class brainstorming and introduces employees to human factors concepts. Although this course has been used to train refinery workers, it can also be used with many other industries. The curriculum, including lesson plans, overheads and student handouts, may be purchased from LOHP for $20. Human factors "training of trainer" classes, presented by LOHP staff, are available for union members, employers, labor-management groups and others.

LOHP’s Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition (WISH), with funding from the University of California at Berkeley’s, Institute for Labor and Employment and the State of California, Department of Health Services, Occupational Health Branch, holds quarterly meetings to (Taken from website):

o   Identify and share strategies to protect the health and safety of immigrant workers.

o   Develop a policy briefing paper with recommendations regarding education and advocacy strategies to reduce the risk of job-related injury and illness among immigrant workers.

     o Involve workers and community groups in developing recommendations.

o   Sponsor a conference to disseminate the findings to policy makers, labor unions, workers, management, researchers, advocacy groups, and other potential partners.

o   Begin developing a network of organizations to provide training and support for immigrant workers regarding health and safety in the workplace.

LOHP’s Labor Services, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Labor_Services/labor_services.html provides upon request, training and assistance to unions and labor-management groups. LOHP is working with Kaiser Permanente Hospitals in a joint labor-management partnership "to develop a training program for worksite health and safety teams" (Quotation taken from website). LOHP is also assisting the California Nurses Association (CNA), University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE/CWA) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) with the provision of training for health and safety committees.

LOHP’s Lead-Safe Schools Project, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Lead-Safe_Schools/lead-safe_schools.html provides training, publications and a free telephone hotline for California school district maintenance and operations staff. LOHP has developed a Lead-Safe Schools Curriculum and provides "training of trainers" at no charge to representatives from school districts. The trained representatives can then use the curriculum to train maintenance employees through workshops. Publications included in LOHP’s Lead-Safe Schools Kit include:

o Lead Safety and School Modernization
o Working in a Lead-Safe School
o Lead-Safe Schools Curriculum
o Lead-Safe Schools Guide

LOHP is a member of the California Resource Network for Young Worker Health and Safety, www.youngworkers.org a coalition of government agencies, and statewide organizations that represent educators, job trainers, parents, employers and unions. The Resource Network works to educate and protect young workers with:

o Educational materials
o Training
o Technical assistance
o A resource library
o Annual Safe Jobs for Youth Month

The Network also maintains a telephone young worker hotline available in English and Spanish.

In addition to all of the above, LOHP offers training to unions on how to assist workers who have been injured on the job and a Training of Trainers course on workplace violence prevention for union members and management. The violence prevention training was made possible with funding from federal OSHA. LOHP has published a book entitled Violence on the Job – A Guidebook for Labor and Management, available for purchase for $15.

LOHP has publications available that can be downloaded online Publications can be accessed at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Publications/Factsheets_And_More/factsheets_and_more.html.

Available publications categories are:

o LOHP Flyer
o Young Worker Factsheets
o Lead-Safe Schools Materials
o Workers’ Compensation Factsheets
o Workers’ Compensation Research Reports
o Young Agricultural Workers Research Report
o HIV/AIDS and Bloodborne Pathogens Booklet
o Tailgate Training for Construction Workers (with topics in English and Spanish that include):

§ Backs & Lifting
§ Fall Protection
§ Guardrails
§ Hand-Arm Vibration
§ Hand Tools
§ High Voltage Lines
§ Housekeeping
§ Portable Ladders
§ Portable Power Tools
§ Scaffolds
§ Temporary Power
§ Trenches & Excavations
§ Underground Service Alert
§ Vehicles & Heavy Equipment

There are many other publications available for purchase through LOHP's Bookshop. The Bookshop can be accessed at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Publications/publications.html

o   Unit I: Introduction to Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs: Using Case Studies as Learning Tools
o   Unit II: Healthy Communities (a five-session environmental health unit)
o   Unit III: Safe Jobs for Youth (a ten-session learner-centered unit that discusses young worker rights)
o   Unit IV: Peer Education (a fifteen-session unit)
o   Unit V: Conclusion – Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs: REFLECTIONS and NEXT STEPS for Making a Difference! (a two-session unit)

This curriculum and an 8-minute promotional video designed for teachers, community-based organizations and youth training programs that assists with implementation of the above referenced program can be purchased through UCLA-LOSH.

UCLA-LOSH also sells a customized "Train the Trainer" workshop for educators and community based organizations. This program also includes a technical assistance forum to assist with the Healthy Communities curriculum.

UCLA-LOSH, in conjunction with other organizations, provides a US-Mexico Border Heath and Safety Training Project for workers in maquiladoras. Maquiladoras are manufacturing plants operating in Mexico, just south of the border of the United States. UCLA-LOSH presents regional health and safety train-the-trainer classes for workers and their organizations using popular education techniques.

UCLA-LOSH sells videos, training kits, books, pamphlets and slide shows to assist with health and safety for workers.


Videos include:

o   Refinery Safety: It’s Everybody’s Business
o   It’s Your Right To Be Safe
o   Standing Your Ground on Safety
o    Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Decontamination: Field Procedures for Hazardous Waste Workers.
o    Training: Key To a Safer Workplace

         UCLA-LOSH Training Kits include:

o   Making Your Illness/Injury Program Work: At Training Manual
o   The VDT’s Trainer’s Kit: A Complete Course on Computer Terminal Health and Safety
o   A Trainer’s Kit on Machine Guarding

A slide show entitled: A Beginner’s Guide to Industrial Hygiene, including a written script, audiotape and discussion booklet can also be purchased from UCLA-LOSH.

UCLA-LOSH operates a Spanish Resource Library with Spanish language occupational safety and health training materials for workers, trainers, employers and health professionals. UCLA-LOSH has produced a Workers’ Sourcebook /La Fuente Obrera, in conjunction with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This book can be downloaded in its entirety or by selected categories. There are 46 categories of safety related information included in the Sourcebook:

o Union Health and Safety Activity
o Agriculture
o Pesticides
o Arts
o Automotive Industry
o Heat and Cold
o Health and Safety Committees
o Workers’ Compensation
o Construction
o Control of Hazards
o Rights and Responsibilities
o Electricity
o Electronics
o Occupational Diseases
o Personal Protective Equipment
o Ergonomics
o Tools
o Industrial Hygiene
o Fire
o Engineering
o Laws and Regulations
o Metals
o Mining
o Women Workers
o OSHA Health Administration
o Skin
o Plastics
o Dust and Fibers
o First Aid
o Recognition of Hazards
o Hazardous Waste
o Biological Risks
o Noise
o Health and Safety
o Sanitation
o Safety
o Forestry
o Reproductive System
o Respiratory System
o Welding
o  Toxics
o  Stress
o  Textile
o  Office Workers
o  Health Care
o  Domestic Work
o  Miscellaneous

• Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety & Health (SCCOSH), Program Division www.sccosh.org/projects.htm has two components: the HEALTH WATCH (Workers Acting Together for Change) and the WE LeaP! (Working Women's Leadership Project).

HEALTH WATCH is an organization of low wage workers headed by a multi-ethnic board. It recommends topics to SCCOSH for discussion, areas for training and issues for action, relative to worker self-reliance for occupational safety and health. WE LeaP! takes the training ideas recommended by HEALTH WATCH and implements them. It is geared to women workers and young workers, because of the changing demographics of the Silicon Valley labor force and to ensure support and training in both the workplace and at home. Entire families do a significant portion of assembling motherboards, paid by piece work contracts, at home, as a way of supplementing income. SCCOSH’s programs integrate occupational safety and health issues with ethnic and diversity issues. SCCOSH provides comprehensive support and training to workers. In the past two years, approximately 800 workers have completed SCCOSH's occupational safety and health training.

SCCOSH also has projects entitled:

o   The In-Visible Storybook Project, that takes workers’ accounts of their background, work experience, ambitions, dreams, etc. and puts these into a study book for use in further training.

o   The In-Visible Mural Making Workshop, offered in four sessions and is designed to teach the basics of composition and mural creation to worker trainees.

o   The In-Visible Videomaking Workshop teaches basics of video documentation to worker trainees based on the themes of occupational safety and health, worker empowerment, and environmental justice.

o   The In-Visible Street Theater that dramatizes dangers of chemical hazards and serves to educate workers and the general public.

There were no specific details about how to participate in WE-Leap events, training program costs or specific details about the occupational safety and health aspects of the training program. However, telephone, fax and email addresses are provided on the website.

 

• AgSafe, Coalition for Health & Safety in Agriculture, www.agsafe.org is a membership based, non-profit coalition of groups and organizations dedicated to the reduction of injuries, illness, and fatalities in California agriculture," (quotation taken from NASD website). AgSafe has developed safety training materials in conjunction with the Safety Center, Inc., a Chapter of the National Safety Council, and the Farm Employers Labor Service (FELS), a subsidiary of California Farm Bureau Federation, www.fels.org. Materials are considered under the public domain and are available for any group or organization involved in agricultural work to use or distribute. Twelve safety modules are presented, both in English and Spanish. The modules are to be used as a refresher in safety awareness and not to substitute actual job training or proper equipment usage.
  
  The modules include:

o Safely Working Around Agricultural Machinery
o Protective Clothing
o Safely Handling Pesticides
o Basic First Aid
o Working Safely With and Around Electricity
o Working Safely in the Farm/Ranch Shop
o Back Injury Prevention
o Defensive Driving
o Preventing Slips and Trips
o Proper Use of a Respirator
o Safely Working With and Around Farm/Ranch Animals
o Safely Working Around Tractors

AgSafe sponsors an annual two-day Agricultural Health and Safety Conference with professional development seminars, training and workshops, speakers, a reception and time to network with other safety professionals.

Agsafe also sponsors a California Agricultural Safety Certificate Program that includes twenty hours of professional development training in health and safety.

Modules include:

o Introduction to Safety Laws and Regulations
o Managing Workplace Safety and Workers’ Compensation Insurance Costs
o Effective Tools for Preventing Injuries and Illnesses in the Workplace
o Conducting Effective Health and Safety Training
o Practical Application Workshop

Students who successfully complete the program are recognized at the annual Agricultural Health and Safety Conference.

• The National Safety Council’s (NSC’s) San Francisco Chapter, www.sanfrancisco.nsc.org offers courses locally, as follows: an Advanced Safety Certificate with courses in:

o Principles of Occupational Safety & Health
o Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene
o Safety Management Techniques
o Safety Training Methods

          Courses in Safety Management Skills include:

o Accident (Incident) Investigation
o Job Safety Analysis
o Safety Inspections and Team Safety

          Regulatory Compliance courses include:

o Lift Truck Train-the-Trainer
o On-site Emergency Response Planning
o OSHA Construction: 10-Hour
o OSHA General Industry: 10-Hour
o OSHA Recordkeeping

Five Driver Safety classes are offered as well as eight Haz Woper courses and one course devoted to Flagger Instructor Development.

The National Safety Council’s Sacramento Chapter, Safety Center, Incorporated, www.safetycenter.org/ presents required OSHA training and other safety training programs.

Required OSHA training consists of:

o Forklift Instructor
o Forklift Instructor – Recertification
o Aerial Lift Instructor
o Skid Steer Loader/Front-End Loader Instructor
o Rough Terrain Lift Truck Instructor
o Confined Space Awareness: Train-the-Trainer
o DDC-4 (Defensive Driving) Instruction
o CPR/FA Instructor
o Flagger Instructor Training

            Other safety training programs include:

o Competent Person Excavation
o Competent Person Fall Protection
o Defensive Driving Course
o Confined Space Entry/Rescue
o Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response Refresher 8-Hour
o Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response General Course 24-Hour
o Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response General Course 40-Hour
o Flagger and Traffic Control
o Forklift Operator Certification
o Cal-OSHA/New Recordkeeping Rule Seminar

The NSC, Sacramento based Safety Center, Incorporated also offers Certificate Programs through their Professional Safety Institute, www.safetycenter.org/safety_training/profsafetyinst.htm .  Five certificate programs are available. They include:

o Basic Safety Certificate
o Intermediate Safety Certificate
o Senior Safety Certificate
o Safety Trainer Certificate
o Advanced Safety Specialist Certificate

The Basic Safety Certificate courses include: Introduction to Safety, Introduction to Industrial Hygiene and Introduction to Selling Safety. In order to participate in the Intermediate Safety Certificate program, the student must first complete and receive the Basic Safety Certificate. Intermediate Safety Certificate courses include: How to Comply with OSHA Record Keeping Requirements, How to Conduct Safety Inspections and How to Conduct Accident Investigations. To participate in the Senior Safety Certificate program, one must complete the Basic Safety Certificate. Senior Safety Certificate courses include: How to Control Risk, How to Make Safety Performance Matter and How to Solve Safety Problems. To participate in the Safety Trainer Certificate program, one must complete the Basic Safety Certificate. The Safety Trainer Certificate course is entitled: Safety Presentations/Train the Trainer. The Advanced Safety Specialist Certificate courses include: When Cal-OSHA Knocks, Workplace Stress and Advanced Accident Investigation. The Center provides one General Safety Training course entitled: Bio and Chemical Terrorism: Strategies for Corporate Preparedness and Response.

All courses offered charge a fee for non-members with a reduced price for members.

· Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, http://agcenter.ucdavis.edu/home.php is affiliated with the University of California, Davis Medical School and Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine. This Center was established in cooperation with NIOSH to protect and improve the health and safety of United States farmers, farm workers and consumers. The Center provides videos, audiotapes, slide sets, games and publications. Videos may be borrowed or purchased. Various videos are available in English, Spanish, Hmong and Japanese. The Slide Set is a Pesticide Application Compendium. The game is entitled: La Loteria de los Pesitcidas. It is an innovative teaching tool, played like bingo, designed to make training sessions more interesting and enjoyable. In addition, it assists employees in retaining more of what they have learned. The content includes sixteen game boards, a deck of 54 cards and instructions in both English and Spanish. The cards include information on farm worker pesticide use and safety concerns. The game may be purchased for $15.00. Numerous publications are available from UC Davis’ Integrated Pest Management Pesticide Education Program.

Colorado

· No occupational health and safety training found.

Connecticut

· The State of Connecticut, under the Connecticut Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health (CONN-OSHA), www.ctdol.state.ct.us/osha/osha.htm only applies to state and municipal employees. They provide consultation services at no charge to any employer. In addition, their website lists a section entitled OSHA Calendar of Events that includes training classes in construction safety, safety and health management planning and information sessions about CONN-OSHA and the Connecticut Labor Department, Division of Wage and Workplace Standards. CONN-OSHA also has a lending library that includes training videos, slide shows and CDs that may be borrowed.

Delaware

· The State of Delaware, Division of Industrial Affairs, Office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Consultation Service, www.delawareworks.com/divisions/industaffairs/occu.safety.htm offers safety and health training free of charge. The website does not specify available training but provides a telephone number to contact the Consultation Service.

Florida

· The State of Florida, Division of Safety no longer exists. Effective June 30, 2000, seventeen offices of the Division were closed. Federal OSHA has jurisdiction over Florida’s private sector.

· The University of Southern Florida Consultation Program, www.safetyflorida.usf.edu/ , established summer, 2000 provides occupational safety and health educational outreach and services to small business within Florida. Services offered are at no cost to the employer. The program is funded 90% through the Federal Government and 10% with State resources. This program offers training to business groups to address concerns with safety and health issues. Seminars are held in conjunction with OSHA’s new Safety and Health Small Business Partnership.

· The Florida Partnership for Safety and Health, Inc., is a not-for-profit all volunteer public sector safety and health corporation. Their website, www.fpsh.net/ is currently under construction.

Georgia

· Project Safe Georgia, www.projectsafegeorgia.org is a public/private partnership of business, government and academic professionals. This is a membership-based program that provides health and safety information to small businesses and individuals from members who have large, formal safety and health programs. This organization holds an annual safety health and environmental conference.

· Georgia Tech, Safety & Health Consultation Program, www.oshainfo.gatech.edu/index.html proffers videos, web courses, free one-day seminars, PowerPoint presentations, and a Spanish language video about OSHA.

Georgia Tech Research Institute, OSHA Training Institute Education Center, www.oshainfo.gatech.edu/2003catalog.pdf presents continuing education classes and an onsite program service.

Georgia Tech, Certificate Programs in Occupational Safety and Health, www.conted.gatech.edu/programs/certificates/osh_cert.html offers two Certificates: Construction Safety and Health and Industrial Safety and Health. Both certificates require the completion of core and elective courses.

Hawaii

· The State of Hawaii, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, Occupational Safety and Health Division (HIOSH), Consultation and Training Branch, www.hawaii.gov/dlir/hiosh/train.htm presents four-hour employer workshops for management and supervisors. The cost is $5.00 per person in order to cover costs of training materials. Currently, courses are being offered in: Effective Safety & Health Supervision, New Recordkeeping Requirements and Developing & Implementing a Safety & Health Program that Works. HIOSH also offers a MS PowerPoint program to assist employer in their training needs, a Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Division Reference Library and audio-visual catalogue.

Idaho

· No occupational health and safety training found.

Illinois

· The State of Illinois, Department of Labor, Safety Inspection and Education Division, www.state.il.us/agency/idol/safety/forms/training.pdf co-sponsors safety and health seminars requested by employers or employee organizations.

Topics may include:

o Asbestos Awareness
o Back Injury Prevention
o Bloodborne Pathogens/TB
o Confined Spaces
o Electrical Safety
o Fire Protection
o Forklift Operations
o General Safety and Health
o Hazard Communication
o Laboratory Safety
o Machine Guarding
o Material Handling and Storage
o Personal Protection Equipment
o Trenching and Excavation
o Welding Safety
o Work Zone Safety
o Other programs designed for the employer

 

Indiana

· The State of Indiana, Department of Labor, Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Division (IOSHA), www.in.gov/labor/iosha/ does not appear to have any health and safety training programs listed on their website.

Iowa

· The State of Iowa, OSHA Consultation & Education (IOSH), www.iowaworkforce.org/labor/iosh/consultation/index.htm operates a borrowing library of safety education videos and a free training entitled, 10-hour Voluntary Compliance OSHA Certificate Course for General Industry or Construction. IOSH provides one set of course materials to the employer to be copied for all attendees.

· The National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS), www.nsc.org/necas/agabout.htm is a partnership between the National Safety Council and the Northeast Iowa Community College. Their mission, as taken from their website, "is to reduce the level of preventable illnesses, injuries and deaths among farmers, ranchers, their families, and their employees." The Center provides Train the Trainer Programs for farmers and ranchers, high school students, medical service personnel and information providers, ie. farm implement and seed corn dealers.

Training courses include:

o Forklift Operator Training Course
o Farm Family First Aid
o Farm Business Management Class
o ATSSA Traffic Control Technician Training
o Flagging Certification Class
o Farmedic Provider Class
o Farmedic Provider Recertification Class
o CPR for Farm Families
o Northeast Iowa Fire EMS School
o Anhydrous Ammonia
o Hunter Safety Class
o Surviving Summer Safety Field Trip for 1^st through 6^th Grade
o Progressive Farmer Safety Day Camp
o Ag Teachers Safety Training Institute
o FFA Fall Harvest Safety Day
o National Farm Safety and Health Week

Kansas

· No occupational health and safety training found.

Kentucky

· The State of Kentucky, Labor Cabinet, KY Occupational Safety & Health Program, www.labor.ky.gov/osh/training/index.htm has instituted a program entitled Population Center Training. This is a series of training course at major population centers within Kentucky. Courses are categorized as Safety Courses and Health Courses.

        Safety Courses include:

o Abrasive Wheel Machinery
o Accident Investigation
o Back Care Program
o Crane Safety for Construction Industry
o Crane Safety for General Industry
o Cumulative Trauma Disorders
o Electrical Hazards
o Electrical Safety for Construction
o Excavations
o Fire Safety and Protection
o Flammable and Combustible Liquids
o Handling and Storage of Explosives
o Injury and Illness Recordkeeping
o Kitchen Safety
o Lockout/Tagout
o Mechanical Power Press Safety
o Mowing Machine Safety
o Office Safety
o Personal Protective Equipment in General Industry
o Portable Hand and Powered Tool
o Powered Industrial Truck Safety
o Process Safety Management
o Scaffolds and Ladders
o Slips, Trips and Falls
o Traffic Control Safety
o Welding
o Cutting and Brazing
o Woodworking Machinery Safety.

Health Courses include:

o Air Contaminants and Respiratory Protection
o Asbestos
o Bloodborne Pathogens
o Confined Space
o Emergency Response – 1910.120
o Employee Hearing Conservation Training
o Hazard Communication
o Health Hazard Recognition
o Indoor Air Quality
o Introduction to Safety and Health
o Laboratory Safety and Health
o Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
o Noise and Hearing Conservation
o Respiratory Protective Equipment
o Tuberculosis Guidelines.

Training is also provided upon request to groups and associations. Theses trainings are developed by the Program and consist of technical topics specifically designed to meet training needs of a particular group. All courses are free of charge. The State’s Division of Education and Training has a training van that can be used to provide training on construction sites. The training vans seats twelve (12), and is equipped with a video player, movie projector, portable generator and air conditioning/heating.

Louisiana

· The State of Louisiana, Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration, http://www.laworks.net/bus_owca.asp furnishes free workplace safety training services.

Course topics include:

o Blood Borne Pathogens
o Confined Space
o Electrical Hazards
o Ergonomics
o Fall Protection
o First Aid/CPR
o Forklift
o Hazard Communication
o Machine Guarding
o Personal Protection Equipment
o Record Keeping
o Violence in the Workplace

Maine

· The State of Maine, Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards has instituted a program entitled Safety Works!, www.state.me.us/labor/bls/saftwkrs.htm that gives training classes free of charge. Classes are limited to two people per company per class.

Classes are offered in:

o Occupational Safety & Health Standards for General Industries
o Video Display Terminal Train-the-Trainer
o Fire Extinguisher/Emergency Action Plan
o Child Labor Laws
o OSHA Update
o Using Your Data to Improve Safety
o Occupational Safety & Health Standards for Construction – 10 hour
o Bloodborne Pathogens for General Industries
o Occupational Safety & Health for General Industries – 10 hour
o OSHA Recordkeeping I & II
o Scaffolding/Fall Protection for the Construction Industry
o Machine Guarding
o Workplace Response to Domestic Violence
o Safety Management for Supervisors
o Permit Required Confined Space Procedures
o Excavating and Trenching
o Accident Investigation

Arrangements can be made to provide on-site training. Maine’s SafetyWorks! also provides a PowerPoint presentation on video display terminals, a video library, publications and a newsletter.

Maryland

· The State of Maryland, Department of Labor, Division of Labor and Industry, Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH), Training and Education www.dllr.state.md.us/labor/train.html offers seminars, publications and speakers free of charge to employers and employers regarding the State’s health and safety requirements. Seminars are offered in partnership with the Maryland Center for Environmental Training (MCET), www.mcet.org through a training outreach program that addresses employee health and safety. College Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available to attendees.

Courses include:

o Accident Investigation
o Bloodborne Pathogens
o Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan
o Compliance Auditing
o Confined Spaces
o Approaching Permit-Required and Permit Required
o Construction Site Safety
o Developing a Safety and Health Program
o Emergency Response and Disaster Preparedness
o Ergonomics in the Construction Industry
o Excavation Safety
o Fall Protection
o Injury and Illness Recordkeeping
o Introduction to Industrial Hygiene for the Non-Industrial Hygienist
o Introduction to Safety and Health for Supervisors (2-Day Program)
o Job Safety Analysis
o Lockout/Tagout
o Mobile Crane Safety
o Office Ergonomics
o Powered Industrial Truck Safety
o Respiratory Protection
o Right-to-Know
o Personal Protective Equipment
o This is MOSH
o Workplace Hazard Assessment
o Workplace Violence Prevention.

MOSH also provides speakers for employer and employee organizations, professional and trade associations and other groups. In addition, safety and health publications and audiovisual materials are available and can be ordered online or downloaded in MSWord.

Categories include:

o Brochures & Fact Sheets (14 publications
o Information for Employers/Employees (9 publications)
o Laws/Regulations/Standards (9 publications)
o Machinery/Equipment (8 publications)
o Maryland Fatal Facts (13 publications)
o MOSH Compliance Services/Required Postings (8 publications)
o Respiratory Hazards (8 publications)
o Workplace (9 publications)

Audio-visual materials are also available from the MOSH Library.

Subjects include:

o Accident investigation
o Confined spaces
o Construction
o Electrical safety
o Ergonomics
o Excavations
o Fall protection
o Ladder safety
o Fire protection
o Hazardous and toxic substances
o Health/occupational
o Machinery and equipment
o Occupations/other specific
o OSHA
o Personal protective equipment
o Safety and health (general)
o Scaffolds
o Violence in the workplace
o Welding

Massachusetts

· The State of Massachusetts, Department of Labor, Division of Occupational Safety http://www.mass.gov/dos, provides safety and health training http://www.mass.gov/dos/training/.