This Trenching and Excavation Safety online safety training course is convenient and easy to use. Individual employees can train at a time that is convenient for them, at their own pace. The system automatically tracks their progress in the course along with any completed quiz scores and bookmarks the learner’s place to make it easy to resume training if training is interrupted. Upon completion of the course, and a 100% score, the employee will then be able to print a certificate of completion.
Employers no longer need to pull large groups of employees off the job to complete their safety training.
- Meet compliance-based safety requirements
- Reduce risks of accidents and injury on and off the job
- Lower insurance premiums, workers compensation claims and lost work hours
- Improve employee morale and retention
This course covers required training on the hazards and safety principles unique to trenching and excavating including: planning factors, site assessment, different excavation methods, confined space requirements, general safety principles, causes of excavation and trenching related fatalities, cave-ins, and recognizing hazards present during trenching and excavation work.
- Identify the health and safety concerns unique to trenching and excavation
- Identify the applicable confined space requirements associated with trenching and excavation
- Specify trenching and excavation safety principles
- Identify the purpose of the site assessment
- Identify the causes of excavation and trenching related fatalities
- Identify causes and preventive actions associated with excavation cave-in accidents using the Deaths and Injuries from Excavation Cave-ins
- NIOSH ALERT
Employees involved with trenching and excavation operations at the workplace.
- OSHA 29 CFR 1926.650 Subpart P, Excavations
