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2010 Training Catalog

Steps to Safety Excellence through Professional Development
The National Safety Council offers 3 certificate programs that can take you from zero to Safety in no time! Begin with the Certificate of OSHA Compliance, designed to quickly provide you with the knowledge you need to be an effective safety representative, whether you've got some safety background or none at all! Continue your Safety education when you complete the Certificate in Principles of Safety Certificate, taking you to the next step in your safety career. Finally, round out your safety professional knowledge with the National Safety Council's Advanced Safety Certificate, a prestigious and highly sought after credential! Earning a National Safety Council Certificate is not only a badge of personal and professional accomplishment. It is a recognized way to be effective back at your workplace! Eliminating workplace incidents and related costs begins with knowledge. The National Safety Council's Occupational Safety and Health Certificate Training Programs help you gain that knowledge, so you can decrease your company's risks - and costs!

What are the benefits to you?

Learn OSHA compliance!
Learn to design and implement cost effective safety programs that reduce risk and costs.
Understand how improving safety improves your productivity and your profits.
Take courses that fit your needs, interests, and experience level.
Complete the programs at your own pace as your schedule allows!
Develop new skills that command professional recognition and respect from OSHA, your colleagues, and other professionals in the field.

Step One - Certificate in OSHA Compliance
The first step towards a safe workplace is compliance with OSHA 29 CFR general industry standards. Get a thorough understanding of what it takes to keep your facility in compliance and avoid fines.

How you'll earn your Certificate in OSHA Compliance:
Successfully complete the Introduction to OSHA Seminar and any five elective seminars over a three-year period, in any order you choose (it is best if you can begin with Introduction to OSHA, but not required). If you have previously completed a 1910 or 1926 OSHA 10- or 30- course, the Introduction to OSHA course requirement is waived. Choose your electives from more than a dozen titles so that you can target your specific needs. Each seminar is approximately 4 hours in length, easily fitting into your busy schedule!

Step Two - Certificate in Principles of Safety
Step up to best practices and go beyond the basics of compliance! You will learn how to help prevent injuries and their related cost, along with receiving practical information that you can use every day.

How you'll earn it:
The Certificate in Principles of Safety is earned by successfully completing the Principles of Occupational Safety and Health Course.

Step Three- Advanced Safety Certificate
The National Safety Council's most prestigious certificate, this is a credential sought after by safety professionals nationwide! Step out in front and maximize your effectiveness as a safety manager and leader! This certificate gives you a solid foundation of knowledge to meet your safety challenges. The Advanced Safety Certificate is great preparation anyone desiring to earn the CSP it rounds out the Safety Professional's education and teaches them not only important concepts in Safety, but also the all important skills of establishing a safety culture, communicating with management on their terms, and more!

This certificate program offers the safety professional flexibility, allowing you to take these courses anywhere they are offered in the country over a three year period. Of course, the best offerings are right here at home, in Omaha, at your National Safety Council, Greater Omaha Chapter!

How you'll earn it:

Complete the Principles of Occupational Safety and Health Course (this course is a pre-requisite to all Advanced Safety Certificate Courses).
Then, take a minimum of 5.4 Continuing Educational Units (CEUs) from the approved courses.

Safety & Health Compliance Specialist

Take the Next Step in Safety Training!
The Safety & Health Compliance Specialist Program consists largely of courses developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's OSHA Training Institute. It requires a minimum of 200 hours of course contact hours. The Midwest OSHA Education Center consortium of the National Safety Council, Greater Omaha Chapter, Kirkwood Community College, and St Louis School of Public Health. Individual courses are offered at each location. Choose from two tracks, either the General Industry Specialist or the Construction Industry Specialist. A minimum of 5 years experience in either construction or general industry is required for admission to the OSHA 500 or OSHA 501 trainer courses.

Why would one want to achieve the SHCS?

Increase your awareness of changing Federal Regulations
Enhance your advancement opportunities
Increased regulatory knowledge to benefit your organization
Recognition and respect of your peers
Earn CEUs

What does it take to achieve the SHCS?

No college degree required
Take 200 hours total from required and elective courses
Intro, recordkeeping, and bloodborne pathogen classes are 8 hours, all other classes are 30 hours, unless noted
This certificate is only offered by the MOEC Consortium
No application fee

Specializing in General Industries:

Required Classes:

OSHA 511 30 Hour

OSHA 501 Train the Trainer

OSHA 3095 Electrical Standards

OSHA 521A Introduction to Industrial Hygiene

Electives: One of the next four courses is necessary

OSHA 2015 Hazardous Materials

CEET 403 Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response

24 Hour Hazwoper

40 Hour Hazwoper

OSHA 2045 Machinery and Machine Safeguarding

OSHA 2225 Respiratory Protection

OSHA 2250 Principles of Ergonomics

OSHA 2264 Permit Required Confined Space

OSHA 3010 Excavation, Trenching & Shoring

OSHA 3110 Fall Arrest Systems

OSHA 7100 Intro to Machinery & Machine

OSHA 7200 Bloodborne Pathogens

OSHA 7300 Intro to Confined Spaces

OSHA 7500 Intro to Safety & Health MGMT

OSHA 7845 Recordkeeping Rules

Specializing in Construction:

Required Classes:

OSHA 510 30 Hour

OSHA 500 Train the Trainer

24 or 40 Hour Hazwoper

OSHA 3010 Excavation, Trenching & Shoring

OSHA 3110 Fall Arrest Systems

Electives:

OSHA 2015 Hazardous Materials

OSHA 2045 Machinery & Machine Safeguarding