Hi, and welcome to the course. This course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of occupational safety and health, and how you can be an proactive member of your workplace safety program.
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Have fun and study hard. To start, just click on "Introduction" above.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 does not specifically address the responsibility of
employers to provide health and safety information and instruction to employees, although Section 5(a)(2) does require that each employer ". . . shall comply with occupational safety and health standards promulgated under this Act."In addition, more than 100 of the Act's current standards contain training requirements. This course is designed to help students gain a greater understanding of the basic of OSH training. |
This course is included in OSHAcademy's Train-The-Trainer Series. This series includes:
Information within this course is intended to apply to a broad range of safety training and training programs. Ultimately, the goal of this course and others is to help you prevent accidents. With this goal in mind, have fun and study hard on this informative online training course. Remember, if you have questions please feel free to send an email.
To begin your online training, click on the "Modules" tab above. To study offline, go to your student dashboard and download the course study guide. The study guide is for your personal use only, and cannot be used for commercial purposes
To begin your training, click on the module links below. If you are just starting this course, you should start with module 1.
OSHAcademy course final exams are designed to help ensure students demonstrate a sufficient understanding of the content covered within each course. To help demonstrate this understanding, students must achieve a minimum score of 80% on final exams. It is OSHAcademy’s policy to protect the integrity of our exams, as a result, we do not provide missed questions to students.
After you have studied all of the course material and taken the module quizzes, you can take the final exam. The module quizzes are optional, but we highly recommend you take each quiz, as the questions are similar to those on the final exam.
This is an open book exam. As you are taking the exam, if you find a question you are unsure of, you should use the course study guide or course web pages to research the correct answer. Don't worry, if you fail the exam, you can study and retake the exam when you are ready.
If you have already paid for your certificates, your exam score will be displayed in your student dashboard. You will also be able to view or print the course PDF certificate if you purchased this option. Your PDF transcript will also be automatically updated to include the course.
After each exam, you will automatically receive an email with pass/fail results. We do not provide exact exam scores unless you purchase a course or program certificate. You are welcome to take all of our courses for free. We only charge a fee if you want certificates to document your training.
Course 703 Study Guide. You can save this study guide to your computer for offline studying, or print the study guide if you prefer.