OSHA Safety Pro: Trenching Excavation & Soil Mechanics

Return home to the one's who love you in the same manner, if not better, than when you left for work. Understand the employer's requirements as well as each individuals responsibilities that will ensure lives are saved.

In this lecture we will discuss basic definitions that will give you a solid baseline for completing this course successfully. 

Understand the requirements that will keep you safe and alive. We will also discuss the difference between a trench and an excavation.

Apply life saving skills to a job site. Use your enhanced 'eye' for safety to impact a job and be the hero through prevention.

Your family needs you. This lecture is about the safe working conditions your employer owes you and your responsibility to follow your employer's safety guidelines.

Get those cognitive juices flowing. Lets do a preliminary job site inspection and get our minds ready to tackle the rest of this course. 

In this lecture we will discuss the hazards that exist and how to identify them. We will learn how these hazards are caused, what causes cave-ins, and how to avoid them.

Understand, and enable life saving skills, through proper identification of a confined space. 

Increase your expertise and correlate how confined spaces relate to trenches and excavations, and the hazards that a confined space creates. We will identify various examples of a confined space and the dangers that lurk within due to the hazardous atmospheres they cause and then wrap up with other examples of trench hazards and  job site inspection. 

Conduct an inspection of a job site. We will learn to identify evidence that a cave-in is imminent. We will discuss other safety issues and standards related to the job site, and how to protect and safeguard yourself and your fellow workers. 

This lecture is an introduction to safety techniques and procedures to be used now that we know that work must be done inside of a trench or an excavation. Identify who the Competent Person is, and his or her role and responsibilities to the team.  We will discuss planning skills that will keep you and your colleagues safe and help you shine as an exemplary employee giving your management a reason to move you up!

After this lecture you will prove that you have the knowledge and expertise as a safe employee or Health and Safety Officer by demonstrating your ability to perform a field soil analysis. 

Gain the "safety tools" required to use the resources available to you to perform a proper soil analysis and use the soil to work for you, not against you.

Creating a plan before you dig will avoid accidents and costly (or deadly) mistakes. Learn how your plan, along with pre-staged equipment, will enable you to save a life by preventing an accident or properly respond to one. 

Understand the importance of locating, identifying, and supporting underground utilities.

Identify and utilize specific forms of trench protection and know what soil conditions to use them in. Your almost to the finish line...SPRINT!!

Impress your boss with your knowledge of appropriate protection while in the trench. Understand what to do to prevent a trench cave-in and how to be the hero through prevention. Use these tips to save lives and level up!

Thank You! Here are some words of motivation for you to help you get out there and be that humble super hero you can be by saving a life and preventing accidents. 

There is more glory for the hero in silence, than for the one who wears a costume. -me