OSHA Outreach training

The domain page explains what these cards are — completion cards from a voluntary OSHA program, earned by attending, with no OSHA exam and no passing score. This page compares the two courses. The ten-hour course is an orientation for entry-level workers: hazard recognition, avoidance and prevention across the topics OSHA mandates and the ones the trainer selects, plus workers' rights and how to file a complaint. The thirty-hour course is for supervisors and workers with safety responsibility: the same mandatory core with far more elective and optional depth, on hazard management, safety programs and the supervisor's role.

Both come in construction and general-industry versions under OSHA's procedures, both must be delivered by an OSHA-authorised trainer in person or an OSHA-authorised online provider, and both cards are issued by the trainer's Authorizing Training Organization within a set period after the class. Trainers who teach the thirty-hour construction course must themselves have substantial construction safety experience.

The curriculum is the practical difference. The ten-hour construction course spends its mandatory time on the focus-four hazards — falls, electrocution, struck-by and caught-in-or-between — plus personal protective equipment and health hazards, with a few elective and optional topics. The thirty-hour course keeps those and adds managing safety and health, hazard communication, scaffolds, excavations, cranes, confined spaces and more, chosen by the trainer from OSHA's elective list. General-industry versions swap the focus-four for walking-working surfaces, exit routes, electrical, PPE and hazard communication.

How to use this family page: confirm the version and course required, enrol with an authorised trainer or online provider, and use the practice sets after each module to make the material stick. There is no OSHA exam to pass, so the sets are a review tool for the course and for the site orientations that follow it.

Which first: OSHA 10 for workers, OSHA 30 for supervisors — and the thirty-hour card is not required to hold the ten-hour one first. Workers moving into supervision take the thirty-hour course as a new course, not as a top-up.