Safety Leadership for Site Supervisors
The supervisor's legal and practical role in preventing injuries on a construction site: employer duties under the OSH Act, the multi-employer citation policy and controlling employers, competent persons under 29 CFR 1926, reasonable care, specific records, graduated enforcement and OSHA inspections, citations and contests, the site-specific safety plan and emergency response with fall rescue, orientations, training records and subcontractor prequalification, job hazard analyses and pre-task plans with serious injury and fatality potential and the hierarchy of controls, toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting, layered inspections and corrective action, OSHA reporting and recordkeeping and incident investigation, working at heights, excavation, cranes and rigging, mobile equipment, electrical work, silica, heat and fatigue, leading indicators, just culture and worker participation, and a capstone safety leadership plan, following one six-story mixed-use building in Boise.
CON-355 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 3 h 47 min
Offered by HSM University · Construction Management
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the employer duties under the OSH Act that supervisors carry out, the controlling employer's role under the multi-employer policy, and the competent person requirements of the construction standards.
- Show reasonable care through specific, timely records, graduated and consistent enforcement, and correct conduct during an OSHA inspection, including the citation and contest process.
- Prepare and maintain a site-specific safety plan with a hazard register by phase, an emergency response plan with rescue, first aid and welfare provisions, and traffic and public protection.
- Run site orientations, task briefings and support for new workers, manage training records, and prequalify and manage subcontractors for safety.
- Prepare job hazard analyses and field-level hazard assessments, rate risk with attention to serious injury and fatality potential, and choose controls using the hierarchy of controls.
- Lead effective toolbox talks, make the stop-work authority real and build near-miss reporting that is easy, blame-free and answered.
- Plan layered inspections, rank findings, and manage corrective actions to verified closure, using observations to find the causes of risky practices.
- Report and record incidents under OSHA's rules, investigate promptly, find causes beyond the individual, and choose effective corrective actions.
- Plan and supervise work at heights, including the fall protection hierarchy, anchors, fall clearance, guardrails, ladders, scaffolds and aerial platforms.
- Supervise excavation, crane and rigging, mobile equipment and electrical work, and control silica, heat, impairment and fatigue.
- Build a safety culture with leading indicators, a focus on serious injury and fatality potential, psychological safety, just culture and worker participation.
- Prepare a safety leadership plan for a new project from lessons learned, with roles, routines, life-saving rules, critical controls and measures.
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 47 min total · final exam
- 1 Supervisor duties under OSHA and state plans 19 min · quiz
- 2 Due diligence, records and working with regulators 18 min · quiz
- 3 Site safety plans and emergency response 18 min · quiz
- 4 Orientations, training and subcontractor safety 18 min · quiz
- 5 Hazard assessments and the hierarchy of controls 21 min · quiz
- 6 Toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting 19 min · quiz
- 7 Inspections and corrective action 19 min · quiz
- 8 Incident reporting and investigation 18 min · quiz
- 9 High-risk work I: working at heights 19 min · quiz
- 10 High-risk work II: excavation, lifting, electrical and health hazards 18 min · quiz
- 11 Building a safety culture 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a safety leadership plan for a new project 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
The supervisor's legal and practical role in preventing injuries on a construction site: employer duties under the OSH Act, the multi-employer citation policy and controlling employers, competent persons under 29 CFR 1926, reasonable care, specific records, graduated enforcement and OSHA inspections, citations and contests, the site-specific safety plan and emergency response with fall rescue, orientations, training records and subcontractor prequalification, job hazard analyses and pre-task plans with serious injury and fatality potential and the hierarchy of controls, toolbox talks, stop-work authority and near-miss reporting, layered inspections and corrective action, OSHA reporting and recordkeeping and incident investigation, working at heights, excavation, cranes and rigging, mobile equipment, electrical work, silica, heat and fatigue, leading indicators, just culture and worker participation, and a capstone safety leadership plan, following one six-story mixed-use building in Boise.
Part of the Construction Management stream, typically taken in year 3.