This 10-hour General Industry course is intended to provide entry level general industry workers information about their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint as well as how to identify, abate, avoid, and prevent job related hazards on a job site. Training should emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, not OSHA standards. OSHA student completion cards are awarded to participants upon successful completion of the training. The training covers a variety of general industry safety and health hazards which a worker may encounter.
Voluntary Program. This training program is voluntary. It does not meet training requirements in any OSHA standard. Even though some jurisdictions, employers, and unions require General Industry outreach training to work on job sites and to fulfill their safety training goals, OSHA still considers the program voluntary. Workers must receive additional training on hazards specific to their job.
