• Overview of OSHA air monitoring standards
• Personal sampling equipment
• Direct- and indirect-reading instruments
• Sampling instruments: theory and operation
• Laboratory analytical procedures
• Instrument calibration methods and equipment
• Interpretation of sampling results
• Workplace air sampling strategies and methods
• Basic analysis of sampling statistics

• Toxicological terms, concepts and definitions
• The dose-response relationship
• Local vs systemic poisoning
• Acute vs chronic poisoning
• Toxicological testing
• Explanation of TLV, PELs and RELs
• Using the NIOSH Registry of Effects of Toxic Substances
• Using the NIOSH Pocket Guide

• Hazard identification
• Lockout-tagout for confined spaces
• Isolation methods and techniques
• Ventilation methods and techniques
• Air sampling instruments
• Entry permits
• Respiratory protection in confined spaces
• Confined space training requirements
• Rescue plans and procedures

• Requirements of OSHA's proposed BBP standards
• Overview of BBP epidemiology
• BBP work practices and engineering controls
• Establishing and infection control plan
• Vaccination and post-exposure follow-up
• Employee training and information
• Record keeping requirements

• Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory tract
• Respirator selection and NIOSH decision logic
• Types of respirators: advantages and disadvantages
• Fit-testing: qualitative and quantitative
• Establishing a respirator protection program
• Air purifying respirators
• Air supplied respirators
• NFPA and OSHA regulatory requirements
• Types of finishing processes
• Spray finishing health hazards
• Spray finishing fire hazard
• Case histories of fires
• Fixed and portable fire protection
• Storage of flammable liquids
• Spray finishing health hazards
• Ventilation requirements for spray finishing processes
• Requirements for electrical installations in spray areas

• Overview of OSHA electrical standards
• Case studies of electrical fatalities
• Ohms law and why it is important to know
• Effects of contact with energized conductors
• Ground-fault circuit interrupters: how and why they work
• Recognition and control of electrical hazards
• Selection and use of basic electrical test equipment

• Overview of hazard communication requirements
• Seven step process for developing HAZCOM program
• Understanding material safety data sheets
• Labeling requirements
• Trade secret provisions
• Training employees on hazardous chemicals
• Record keeping and access to records

• Overview of OSHA fall protection requirements
• Case histories of fall fatalities
• Skylight protection
• Roof protection
• Ladder protection
• Scaffold protection
• Open-sided floor protection
• Personnel platform protection

• Definitions
• Floor and wall holes and openings
• Guardrails
• Skylight protection
• Portable ladders
• Fixed ladders
• Scaffolds

• Physiology and anatomy of the ear
• Noise measurement techniques and methods
• Noise measuring instruments
• Requirements of OSHA noise standard
• Audiometric testing
• Hearing conservation
• Selection of appropriate ear protection
• Engineering controls

• Requirements of OSHA's lab standard
• How to write a chemical hygiene plan
• Laboratory work practices
• Compressed gas handling
• Storage of flammable liquids
• Segregation of incompatible chemicals
• Emergency procedure in the laboratory
• Disposal of chemical wastes
• Laboratory fire protection

• Overview of the standard's requirements
• Preparing a written compliance plan
• Exposure determination
• Selection of protective equipment
• Medical surveillance programs
• Engineering controls for lead exposure

• General information
• Relevant ANSI requirements
• Types of protection: eye, head, foot, etc.
• Chemical protective clothing
• Selection of protective equipment
• Fall protection (belts, harnesses and life lines)
• Maintenance and inspection of PPE
• Employee training and information
• Developing a comprehensive PPE program

• OSHA and NFPA regulatory requirements
• Case histories of major flammable liquid fire
• Chemistry and physics of fire
• Flammable liquid classes
• Sources of ignition
• Factors governing flame spread
• Bonding and grounding
• Requirements of fire rated building construction
• Portable containers
• Above- and below-ground tank storage
• Electrical wiring for hazardous locations
• Industrial operations and storage
• Warehouse storage

• Overview of OSHA's lockout-tagout standard
• Case studies: lockout-tagout fatalities
• Equipment and hardware
• Forms of hazardous energy
• Establishing a lockout-tagout program
• Lockout-tagout methods and techniques
• Employee information and training
• Audit procedures

• Requirements of OSHA standards
• Types of welding process
• Safety hazards in welding
• Welding fire hazards
• Compressed gas handling
• Heath hazards in welding
• Control of welding hazards
• Protective clothing and equipment

• Machine guarding hazards
• General guarding requirements
• Methods of employee protection
• Mechanical guards
• Presence sensing devices
• Two hand controls
• Guarding by location
• Automation and robotics
• Power transmission guarding
• Wood working tools
• Metal working tools

• General principles
• Floor and wall holes
• Stairways and ladders
• Scaffolds
• Welding hazards
• Construction site fire protection
• Electrical hazards
• Flammable liquids
• Construction health hazards
• Personal protective equipment
• Trenching and excavating
• Fall protection

• Overview of the OSHA standard's requirements
• Fatal accident case histories
• Competent person
• Daily and routine inspection
• Visual and manual test for identifying soil types
• Protective systems: sloping, shoring, shielding

• Plan elements
• Fire alarm systems
• System maintenance
• System testing
• Employee training
• Fire prevention plans
• Training requirements
• Fundamental principles for exits

• General requirements
• Selection and distribution of extinguishers
• Inspection and maintenance of extinguishers
• Employee training and education

• Wet pipe systems
• Dry pipe systems
• Pre-action systems
• Deluge systems
• Water spray systems
• Gaseous agents: CO2, Halon
• Water spray
• Dry chemical
• Explosion suppression systems

• Hazardous locations defined
• Classes of locations
• Groups within classes
• Divisions within classes
• Establishing the limits of locations
• Requirements of OSHA and The National Electrical
• Wiring methods
• Motors
• Lighting
• Switches and circuit breakers
• Receptacles
• Standards with hazardous location provisions

• Ventilation concepts and principles
• Pros and cons: ventilation vs respiratory protection
• Ventilation planning considerations
• General ventilation: advantages and disadvantages
• Local exhaust: advantages and disadvantages
• Components of local exhaust systems
• Principles of ventilation design
• Capture and duct velocity
• Testing ventilation systems
• Fans and blowers
• Air cleaning equipment
• Stacks and exhausts

• OSHA requirements
• Hand tool hazards
• Proper tool selection
• Use of hand tools
• Inspection
• Protective equipment

• Competent person requirements
• General scaffold requirements
• Guard rail requirements
• Planking and decking
• Tubular frame scaffolds
• Rolling tower scaffolds
• System scaffolds
• Outrigger
• Pump-jack
• Tube-and-coupler
• Swing-stage
• Scaffold planking
• Masons' scaffolds

• General ladder requirements
• Step ladder
• Portable ladders
• Rolling ladders
• Fixed ladders
• Ladder cage requirements
• Landing platform requirements
• Well ladder requirements
• Ladder climbing devices
• Ladder inspection
• Good and bad work practices
• Employee training

• General requirements for power tools
• Electric powered tools
• Fuel powered tools
• Pneumatic tools
• Hydraulic tools
• Power tool hazards
• Power tool inspection
• Use of protective equipment

• Inspection procedures
• Pro and cons of requiring warrant
• Employers' rights and responsibilities
• Inspectors' rights and responsibilities
• Accompanying the inspector on a walk-around
• Citations, penalties and the appeal process

• Sources of IAQ complaints
• Sick building syndrome
• Building-related illnesses
• Resolving IAQ problems
• Effective communication
• Developing an IAQ profiles
• Identifying IAQ problems
• Evaluating HVAC systems
• Testing and monitoring equipment
• Preventing IAQ problems

• Introduction to toxicology
• Industrial processes and their hazards
• Selection and use of air sampling equipment
• Noise measurement, evaluation and control
• Respiratory protection: selection and use
• Principles of industrial ventilation
• Right-to-Know

• Introduction and overview
• Walking and working surfaces
• Exits and means of egress
• Fire safety and exits
• OSHA laboratory safety requirements
• Bloodborne pathogens
• OSHA TB compliance directives
• Flammable liquid safety
• Right-to-know for hospital personnel

• Construction air contaminants
• Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
• Construction noise
• Respiratory protection
• Job site ventilation
• Confined spaces

• Methods of heat transfer
• Principles of thermoregulation
• Environmental factors influencing heat stress
• Metabolic factors influencing heat stress
• Adverse effects of heat exposure
• Heat cramps
• Heat exhaustion
• Heat stroke
• Personal protective equipment
• Administrative controls
• Engineering controls

• Blaster qualifications
• Transportation of explosives
• Storage of explosives and blasting agents
• Loading of explosives and blasting agent
• Use of safety fuse and detonating cord
• Safety in firing the blast
• Inspection after blasting
• Handling misfires

• Accident case histories
• Types of compressed gases
• Compressed gas health hazards
• Compressed gas safety hazards
• Marking of cylinders
• Storage requirements
• Compressed Gas Association notices

• Classes of flammable liquids
• Construction requirements
• Types of storage tanks
• Siting of storage tanks
• Diking requirements
• Normal and emergency venting

• Means of egress
• Walking and working surfaces
• Portabel fire protection
• Materials storage handling
• Electrical hazards
• Chemical hazards
• Ergonomics and VDTs

• The business case for ergonomics
• Ergonometric hazards
• Basic principles of ergonomics
• Understanding cumulative trauma
• Human factors
• Strategic issues and trends
• A guide to workplace programs

• Types of lifts
• Driver qualifications
• Inspection and maintenance
• Battery charging station requirements
• Use in hazardous locations