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OSHA Certification

STT — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:21:56 +0000

OSHA certification is one of those broad based terms that encompasses a wide array of training and testing programs that are designed to ensure good safety practices in a variety of environments. OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is the primary department in the U.S. government that oversees, and enforces safety regulations and compliance in the workplace throughout the United States.

Virtual Instruction With Online Safety Training

STT — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:30:10 +0000

Once upon a time, the Internet was considered “the way of the future.” Most people agree that the future has now arrived, and the Internet has changed the way society does business. You’d be hard-pressed to find an American home that doesn’t have at least one computer in it, and as a result, our vast world is smaller than ever before. Businesses and non-profit organizations alike have embraced the computer age and now routinely include a website as part of their business. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the United States is no exception. OSHA is the organization whose mandate it is to write and enforce policy regarding workplace safety and accident/illness prevention. Formed in 1970, OSHA protects nearly every worker in most every sector in the U.S.

Before the computer age, the only way to take an OSHA course was through its training institute, to attend a seminar, or to bring a trainer into ones own workplace. While these types of training still exist, OSHA now offers many of its courses, seminars, and workshops via virtual school online. These web-based courses include its most popular course, the Outreach Training Program (which covers topics applicable to most every industry, such as risk assessment, fire prevention and safety, rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, etc.), first aid training, Department of Transportation driver safety, Hazpower (pollution and environmental clean-up), health care industry safety, and many more.

OSHA Safety Training Keeps Pace

STT — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:54:53 +0000

OSHA (The Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has a mammoth task, considering there are millions of employers and businesses in the United States. Since OSHA’s mandate is to govern the safety and protection of every worker in the U.S. from workplace accidents, it must find effective ways of communicating with employers and employees alike and making its resources readily available and easily accessible. With new technologies emerging every year, OHSA must constantly evaluate the market and identify what it takes to keep America’s workers safe.