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August NewsletterNew mandatory OSHA training for contractors and their employees working on public work projects becomes effective August 29, 2009. Public works is described as all fixed works constructed for public use or benefit, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds. The contractor to whom the contract is awarded shall be required to ensure that all on-site employees complete the 10 hour OSHA Construction Training Course. The contractor shall forfeit, as a penalty to the public body on whose behalf the contract is made or awarded, two thousand five hundred dollars plus one hundred dollars for each employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor, for each calendar day, or portion thereof, such employee is employed without the required training. This 10 Hour OSHA Construction Course requirement will be enforced by the Missouri Attorney General. OSHA has a very effective referral system in place now where the OSHA Compliance Officer can refer this matter to the Attorney General for action without leaving his desk. Look for enforcement in this area. The means is in place and the state needs the money. All of Brittney’s OSHA consultants are trained and licensed to present these courses to the contractors, as well as the 30 Hour OSHA Training Course. We can train in our classroom or at your facility. Just call our office for pricing and scheduling. Many contractors are already moving ahead with this training requirement by assuring their employees are OSHA trained and certified. Our clients have experienced some strange accidents this past month. One contractor contacted a live overhead power line with the handle on a bull float. The old timers used to tell me that electric shock was good for your arthritis, I didn’t buy it then and I don’t buy it now. Post a sign warning of the danger anytime you are working in the near vicinity of live power lines. The second accident occurred when a wooden frame wall was be raised by employees. Before the wall was secured, the wall fell back on the nine men holding the wall frame. My only advice is making sure you have a means to immediately secure the wall once it is raised. OSHA’s emphasis at this time seems to be on industrial clients with a means to cause amputations. If you have machinery such as saws, presses, shears, and punches, just to name a few, you are subject to the inspection under the Amputation Special Emphasis Program. Every Monday morning at 7:00 AM we offer New Employee Safety Training for our industrial clients. The same training is offered each Friday at 7:00 AM for our construction clients. This training is free to our clients. This is mandatory training according to OSHA for all new employees. Fail to accomplish this training, and the employee is injured, and OSHA investigates the accident, you have several serious violations and some larger penalties to settle with the U.S. Department of Labor. When this happens, there is little anyone can do for you. An OSHA 10-Hour Construction Training Course is scheduled for Friday, August 15, 2008 here in the Brittney classroom from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Cost is $150.00 per person. Call Brittney for reservations in this class. A similar course will be held at Tri-State Contractors classroom on Monday, August 25, 2008. Call Christy for reservations in the Joplin classroom at 417-627-9392. First Aid Training will be offered here in our Springfield classroom on Monday, August 18, 2008 from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Total cost for this training is $67.00 per person. Call Brittney for reservations in this class. First Aid Training will be offered in the Tri-State Contractors classroom at 7:00 AM on Monday, August 25, 2008. Call Christy in Joplin for reservations. If you do not have a drug testing policy and plan, let me very strongly recommend you implement one today. The cost is very nominal and is very confidential. You only have to call ABC Drug Testing at 866-8320 and they will come to you, do the plan and paper work, and confidentially do the testing right on site. Then, periodically, you randomly test a small number of your employees, unannounced, and do post accident testing. You will be very pleasantly surprised how unexplained accidents were caused to happen. When we conduct OSHA training courses at your location, we price the course by the hour, not the number of students. You can train 50 employees on the OSHA 10 hour course for the same price as 6. Think about that as you plan your training needs to meet the new job safety standards. The following is a list of Special Emphasis Programs in effect in OSHA Region VII. It is an indication of what OSHA is using to justify inspections of your business. - Amputations – Region-wide - Auto Body Shops – St. Louis and Kansas City - Electrical Hazards in General Industry Establishments – St. Louis - Falls, Scaffolds, and Electrocution from Overhead Power Lines – Region-wide - Federal Agency Establishments – Region-wide - Grain Handling – St. Louis and Omaha - High Hazard Workplaces without an OSHA Inspection since 1996 – Omaha and Wichita - Logging and Sawmills – St. Louis - Powered Industrial Trucks in Construction and General Industry – Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, and Wichita - Residential Construction – St. Louis (St. Charles and Jefferson Counties) - Demolition Work – St. Louis - Oil & Gas – Wichita - Maritime Employers – Des Moines - Mechanical Hazards in the Cotton Gin Industry – St. Louis - Servicing Multi-Piece and Single-Piece Rim Wheels – Wichita
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