Final Matrix Certificate Program General-Industry
Final Matrix Certificate Program General-Industry
Final Matrix Certificate Program General-Industry
of 68 contact
hours of training to earn the certificate in Safety & Health Fundamentals for General Industry.
Participants must complete the 3 required courses listed below for a minimum of 39 contact hours of training.
Participants must complete a minimum of 4 elective courses listed below that include a minimum of 29 contact hours of training.
Required Courses
Minimum
Course Number and Title Course Description
Contact Hours
This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as general industry
OSHA #511 Occupational Safety and Health safety and health principles. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA general
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Standards for the General Industry industry standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous,
using OSHA standards as a guide.
Using interactive assignments and thought-provoking group projects, students of this one-
OSHA #7500 Introduction to Safety and Health
day workshop come away with a strong understanding of the benefits in implementing a 5.5
Management
safety and health management system in the workplace.
Introduction to accident investigation provides an introduction to basic accident
investigation procedures and describes accident analysis techniques. The goal of the
OSHA #7505 Introduction to Incident (Accident) course is to help participants gain the basic skills necessary to conduct an effective
7.5
Investigation accident investigation at their workplace. The target audience is the employer, manager,
employee or employee representative who, as part of a firm's safety and health system,
would be involved in conducting accident and/or near-miss investigations.
TOTAL HOURS 39
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Elective Courses for General Industry
Course Minimum
Course Name and Title
Description Contact Hours
This course covers industrial hygiene practices and related OSHA regulations and
procedures. Course topics include recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical,
physical, biological and ergonomic hazards, Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL), OSHA
health standards, respiratory protection, engineering controls, OSHA sampling protocols
and strategies, and workplace health program elements. The course features workshops in
OSHA #521 OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene 26
health hazard recognition, OSHA health standards, and use of sampling equipment. Upon
course completion students will have the ability to recognize basic industrial hygiene
principles and practices, identify characteristics of common air contaminants, locate
PELs, perform basic industrial hygiene calculations, and determine methods for hazard
control and abatement.
This course covers the requirements for the establishment, maintenance, and monitoring
of a respiratory protection program. Course topics include terminology, OSHA
Respiratory Protection Standards, NIOSH certification, respiratory protection programs,
and medical evaluation requirements. Program highlights include workshops on respirator
OSHA #2225 Respiratory Protection selection, qualitative and quantitative fit testing, and the use of respiratory protection and 26
support equipment. Upon course completion students will have the ability to identify and
describe the elements of a respiratory protection program, the proper selection, use, and
inspection of respiratory protection, protection factors, and evaluate compliance with
OSHA Standards.
This course covers the use of ergonomic principles to recognize, evaluate, and control
workplace conditions that cause or contribute to musculoskeletal and nerve disorders.
Course topics include work physiology, anthropometry, musculoskeletal disorders, use of
video display terminals, and risk factors such as vibration, temperature, material handling,
repetition, and lifting and patient transfers in health care. Course emphasis is on industrial
OSHA #2255 Principles of Ergonomics 18
case studies covering analysis and design of workstations and equipment workshops in
manual lifting, and coverage of current OSHA compliance policies and guidelines. Upon
course completion, students will have the ability to recognize work-related
musculoskeletal and nerve disorders, assess employer's ergonomic programs, and conduct
ergonomic evaluations.
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Elective Courses for General Industry
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Elective Courses for General Industry
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5
Elective Courses for General Industry
Minimum
Course Name and Title Course Description
Contact Hours
This course provides an introduction to common health hazards that are encountered
in the workplace. These health hazards will include exposure to chemicals, asbestos,
silica and lead. The course will feature these topics: identification of hazard; sources
OSHA #7205 Health Hazard Awareness of exposure; health hazard information; evaluation of exposure; and engineering and 6
work practice controls. The course materials will include an instructor and student
manual; workshops and group activities; and PowerPoint presentations. The course is
designed as an awareness course for employers and employees.
This course covers recognition of hazards and risks associated with a pandemic illness
event and development of strategies to assist a business, community, or family with
realistic preparation for a pandemic event. Course topics include potential impact of a
pandemic illness event on a business and community, critical elements of a preparedness
OSHA #7210 Pandemic Illness Preparedness plan, and realistic strategies for supporting continuity of operations. This course offers
5.5
information on strategies that can be used to control the spread of the illness,
minimization of exposure to employees and family, and resources available from OSHA
and other government agencies. The intended audience is the business leader and
members of their management team who may be integral to preparedness planning.
This course covers the development and implementation of controls and strategies to
prevent or mitigate silica exposures in construction, maritime, and general industries.
OSHA #7215 Silica in Construction, Maritime, Course topics include describing the requirements of OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline
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and General Industries Silica standards and recognizing the hazards and risks, assessment options, and exposure
control measures associated with silica exposure.
This course covers OSHA requirements for maintaining and posting records of
occupational injuries and illnesses, and reporting specific cases to OSHA. Participants
OSHA #7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar who successfully complete this course will be able to identify OSHA requirements for 4
recordkeeping, posting, reporting, and to complete new OSHA forms 300, 300A, and 301.
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Elective Courses for General Industry
Minimum
Course Name and Title Course Description
Contact Hours
This course is designed to enable students to recognize, evaluate, prevent, and abate
safety and health hazards associated with confined space entry. Technical topics include
OSHA #2264 Permit-Required Confined Space 20
the recognition of confined space hazards, basic information about instrumentation used
Entry
to evaluate atmospheric hazards, and ventilation techniques. This course features
workshops on permit entry classification and program evaluation.
OR
This course covers the requirements of the OSHA Permit-Required Confined Space Standard.
Course topics include safety and health hazards associated with confined space entry, and the
evaluation, prevention, and abatement of these hazards. The course covers OSHA
requirements; it does not feature workshops (instrumentation, control methods and testing)
OSHA #7300 Understanding OSHA’s Permit- which are included in the OSHA #2264 Permit-Required Confined Space Entry. This course
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Required Confined Space Standard is designed for small employers or a designated representative (line supervisor or manager)
with the responsibility to develop a permit-required confined space program. Upon course
completion students will have a basic understanding of confined space hazards, evaluating
and abatement of the hazards, and determining when a confined space shall be classified as a
permit-required confined space.
This course covers the various types of common machinery, machine safe guards, and
related OSHA regulations and procedures. Guidance is provided on the hazards
OSHA #2045 Machinery & Machine Guarding associated with various types of machinery and the determination of proper machine
Standards safe guards. Course topics include machinery processes, mechanical motions, points of 26
operation, control of hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout), guarding of portable
powered tools, and common OSHA machine guarding violations.
OR
The main focus of this course is to increase the participant's knowledge and skill in
proper machine safeguarding techniques, and to highlight the benefits of guarding
OSHA #7100 Introduction to Machinery and various types of machinery. It is the employer's responsibility to identify and select
Machine Safeguarding the safeguard necessary to protect employees and others in the work area, as well as 4
provide appropriate training in safe work practices. Knowing when and how to
properly safeguard machinery can reduce or eliminate the potential for accidents and
injuries.