SAFETY SEMINARS
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- Silica Hazard Awareness Seminar
- The 2-Hour Silica Hazard Awareness Seminar is appropriate for individuals who may be exposed to respirable crystalline silica in the course of construction activities. Occupational exposure occurs when cutting, sawing, drilling, and crushing of concrete, brick, ceramic tiles, rock, and stone products. The course will review the fundamentals of Silica and respirable crystalline silica, basic health hazards and risks related to exposure, PPE, engineering controls and safe work practices.
- Lead Awareness Training
- Following OSHA standards for lead in construction, attendees will learn what is required to prevent exposure to lead in the construction industry. This course includes an overview of Lead Paint, Hazards and OSHA Regulations.
- Asbestos Awareness Training
- The purpose of this awareness training is to provide workers with background information on asbestos in workplace, the dangers of asbestos fibers in buildings, methods of recognizing and preventing exposure to asbestos as well as how to comply with OSHA’s asbestos safety standards.
- Hazard Communication Standard Update Seminar
- In this seminar, students will learn the information presented to employees through the written mediums of labels and safety data sheets, and will learn how to apply this information in their workplace. The seminar will include topics such as: the history of the GHS, effective transition dates for GHS adaptation, differences between old Hazard Communication Standard and GHS, detailed explanation on how to identify new…
WORKSITE SAFETY
- 4-Hour Aerial Lift Awareness
- An aerial lift is a device that enables access to hard-to-reach places by lifting a platform into the air. Cherry pickers and bucket trucks are examples of aerials lifts typically used by utility or construction workers to temporarily gain access to otherwise inaccessible locations. This course reviews and explains the basic safety rules associated with aerial lifts to help workers avoid accidents and injuries while working on or around aerial lifts.
- 4-Hour Flagging Training
- During this 4-hour course students will be introduced to Federal and New York State policies, procedures and standards. Training will review general work zone safety principles covered in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) book, with concentration on recognition and prevent of hazardous conditions, and the topics discussed in this course provide a thorough understanding of the proper signals and safe flagging techniques specific to New York regulations, flagging procedures and proper use of required equipment, and how to coordinate traffic movement through the work zone.
- CPR/AED/First Aid Program
- This training meets OSHA Guidelines for First Aid Programs and combines lecture, interactive video demonstration and hands-on training to teach participants lifesaving skills. In this course, attendees will learn how to recognize and provide basic treatment for medical conditions like cardiac arrest, stroke, seizures, allergic reactions, asthma, and shock.
- 8-Hour Confined Space Entry/Attendant/Supervisor Training
- The Confined Space Operations course is designed to educate students in the safe practices and responsibilities of the entrant, entry attendant, and supervisor when working with confined spaces. Key topics include general requirements of the OSHA standard, employer’s responsibility to individuals working in confined spaces…
DEPT. OF HEALTH-APPROVED ASBESTOS
- Allied Trades Initial Training
- This course includes topics such as safety hazards, work practices, decontamination system, and regulatory overview specific to asbestos abatement activities they intend to conduct.
- Allied Trades Refresher Training
- The 4 Hour Allied Trades Refresher Course is required annually for recertification of the Initial Allied Trades license. This training will refresh the participant’s knowledge of the proper procedures of abatement activities and much more.
- Asbestos Abatement Worker/Handler Initial Training
- This training is designed to give each student a thorough understanding of the different removal processes as well as the importance of public protection and potential health effects. This course includes topics such as personal hygiene, work area preparation, engineering control, personal protective equipment, work practices, and safety hazards…
- Asbestos Abatement Worker/Handler Refresher Training
- This training covers the renewal process which attendees will have to complete to renew their certification. Students receive a user manual containing images and important facts covered during course. The topics covered consist of a review of federal and state regulations, engineering controls and decontamination systems.
- Asbestos Abatement Contractor/Supervisor Initial Training
- The training offers practical instruction on all facets of asbestos removal to include project planning, work practices, protection of workers, and project close-out procedures. Other topics include supervisory techniques, insurance and liability considerations, PPE, and overview of federal and state regulations.
- Asbestos Abatement Contractor/Supervisor Refresher Training
- This course will refresh the individual’s knowledge of the materials that were covered in the initial 40 hours of training such as how to properly provide supervision and direction to workers engaged in asbestos abatement activities and/or individuals who operate in abatement business. It will also cover any revised or updated information.
FALL PROTECTION
- 8-Hour Fall Protection Training
- This 8-hour course is intended to educate workers on how to avoid accidents and injuries while working on roofs, leading edges, ladders or scaffolds by defining the regulations and safety rules associated with fall hazards on construction sites.
- Fall Protection Awareness
- This course covers topics such as the cause and nature of fall hazards at the work place, the correct procedures for erecting, maintaining, disassembling, inspecting fall protection systems, the use/operation of guardrail systems, personal fall protection systems, safety net systems, warning line systems, fall protection plans, safety monitor system, and falling object hazards…
OTHER TRAINING COURSES
- Forklift Operations Training
- Forklift safety training teaches employees how to identify specific health and safety hazards in the workplace associated with operating a powered industrial lift truck. This safety training includes a combination of formal classroom instruction, demonstrations and practical exercises performed by the trainee, and an evaluation of the operator’s performance.
- Qualified Rigger Training
- Regulations discussed in this course are ASME B30.5, ASME B30.9, and OSHA 29 CFR Part 1926.1400. This course includes topics such as basic rigging principles, rigging component identification, mathematical calculations, sling selection, rigging inspection, wire rope and chain design, and proper rigging techniques.
- Certified Signal Person Training
- The course includes discussions on different types of signals used and practical scenarios to prepare students for a practical and written examination that is administered at the end of the course. This course includes topics such, crane components, proper use of the ANSI hand signals, crane characteristics and dynamics, signal person requirements per OSHA 1926.1419-1926.1422, working near power lines, and voice signals.
- Defensive Driving Course: Point & Insurance Reduction Program
- This course includes applicable New York state traffic laws that help drivers use safer driving techniques to avoid and prevent accidents. This course covers topics such as maintaining proper speed, signaling when turning or changing lanes, leaving enough space, in distance and time, between you and other vehicles, wearing your seat belt, maintaining your vehicle, improper driving conditions and much more.
- Excavation Safety Training
- This course provides an overall understanding of excavation and its hazards, and details the general and specific requirements when excavating and trenching in accordance with OSHA construction regulations. This course includes topics such as defining types of cave-in protection, recognizing the general safety requirements to work at…
- Safety T-Strap Training
- The Safety T-Strap Training is a 2 hour course for workers who use Safety T-Straps at the work site. We’ll show you how Safe-T-Straps work, how to fit them, and how to use the features of your particular travel restraint/fall arrest system. TSCTA is the only training provider in New York that offers this course.
- Basic Suspended Scaffold Review Seminar
- This Seminar will review the essentials of basics suspended scaffolds and cover such topics as: tying knots, overview of scaffold rules and regulations set forth in the NYC Building Codes, review Best Practices, how to prepare inspection checklists and practicing calculations.
- Confined Space Awareness Training
- The Confined Space Awareness course is designed to educate students’ working in the vicinity of confined spaces on key safety hazards, methods of controlling those hazards, elements of confined space programs, emergency procedures and training requirements.
- RRP Lead Safety Initial Training
- This EPA approved course explains how to comply with the new RRP Rule. This course will teach students lead-safe work practices & how to successfully implement them. This course includes topics such as regulatory authority: 40 CFR 745.90(a)(1) & 40 CFR Subpart L, health effects and how to prevent them, lead safe work practices, containment, cleaning & record keeping, tools & personal protective equipment. This certificate will allow the individual to perform renovations in any State area.
- RRP Lead Safety Refresher
- This course will refresh the participant’s knowledge of how to properly perform lead-safe practices and how to successfully implement them. Topics covered include regulatory authority: 40 CFR 745.90(a)(1) & 40 CFR Subpart L, health effects and how to prevent them, lead safe work practices, containment, cleaning & record keeping, tools & personal protective equipment.
SECURITY GUARD
- 8 Hour Pre-Assignment Training Course
- This general introductory course is the initial training required for individuals seeking to obtain a Security Guard Registration Card, and ultimately become employed as security guards in NY State. This 8-hour course provides students with a general overview of the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, and access control.
- Security Guard 16 Hour On-the-Job Training
- This training will provide the student with detailed information on the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics covered include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, ethics and conduct, incident command system, and terrorism.
- 8 Hour Annual In-Service Training
- The course is structured to provide the student with updated and enhanced information on the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, and ethics and conduct.