OSHA 10 Hour Construction or the General Industry Card?
Same programme, different syllabus. The right one follows the standard the work falls under, and a card in the wrong discipline will not be accepted on site.
- OSHA 10 Hour Construction. The page you are on. 29 CFR 1926 hazards across seventeen modules, ending in the Department of Labor card.
- OSHA 10 Hour Construction in Spanish. The same course and the same card, delivered in Spanish. View the OSHA 10 Hour Construction in Spanish
- OSHA 10 Hour General Industry. The 29 CFR 1910 syllabus, for work outside construction, maritime and agriculture. View the OSHA 10 Hour General Industry
- Introduction to OSHA. The first mandatory hour on its own, for anyone who needs rights and responsibilities without a card. View the Introduction to OSHA
Take Construction for work that builds, alters or repairs under 29 CFR 1926. Take General Industry for manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare, retail and utilities.
What the OSHA 10 Hour Construction Card Proves
Widely required and widely misread. It is worth being clear about what the card is, and about what it is not.
- Outreach, not compliance. The Outreach Training Program is voluntary awareness training. Asked whether its classes meet the training requirements in OSHA standards, OSHA answers no, and says employers remain responsible for training workers on the specific hazards of their job.
- Awareness, not competence. What it does give a new starter is the orientation a site expects them to arrive with: worker rights, employer duties, how a complaint is filed, and the four hazards that the syllabus treats as the ones worth the most time.
- A DOL card. The card itself is issued by an OSHA authorised trainer. Under OSHA's Outreach Training Program Requirements, trainers issue student course completion cards within 90 calendar days of the course end date.
- No expiry date. OSHA states that Construction student course completion cards carry no expiration date. A replacement is only available if the class was taken within the last five years, and only one replacement per student per class.
Several states and most general contractors now want it before anyone steps on site.
