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Information for our Customers, Clients,
and Subcontractors

OSHA 10 Safety Information

Effective July 1, 2006, Massachusetts enforced a law that required all contractors, subcontractors and employees thereof be trained in an OSHA approved 10 hour training program as follows:

“The Employer has to furnish documentation that all employees have to have completed the course at the time they begin to work. Section 2 of the law states that, "Any person submitting a bid for, or signing a contract to work on, the construction, re-construction, alteration, remodeling or repair of any public work by the commonwealth, or political subdivision thereof, or by any county, city, town, district, or housing authority, and estimated by the awarding authority to cost more than $10,000, and any person submitting a bid for, or signing a contract to work on, the construction, reconstruction, installation, demolition, maintenance or repair of any building by a public agency estimated to cost more than $10,000, shall certify on the bid, or contract, under penalties of perjury, as follows: " .... (2) that all employees to be employed at the worksite will have successfully completed a course in construction safety and health approved by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration that is at least 10 hours in duration at the time the employee begins work and who shall furnish documentation of successful completion of said course with the first certified payroll report for each employee"

The Contractor and all its subcontractors shall furnish to the Owner, with the first certified payroll report, documentation indicating that each employee has successfully completed 10 hours of a course in construction safety and health. This course must be approved by the United States Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)”

We have found two reliable sources to obtain training and would like to pass along that information to you for your employees

We have found the OSHA-accredited website www.360training.com to be a convenient and economical way to obtain your certification. Once on the 360training website, click on the OSHA 10-hour course that is for the construction industry. The website allows you to choose a user i.d. and password so that you can log on and off if sitting in front of the computer for the duration of the course is not possible. The course is a power point presentation with quizzes at the end of each topic that must be passed with a 70% or better before you can proceed to the next segment.

Once the online course is completed, a certificate will be ready for printing. You will also receive a yellow OSHA card within two months of completing the on-line course. You must carry this card at all times when you are on any Waterline jobsite.

We have also found AGC Safety and Construction Services located in Wellesley, Massachusetts to be an additional source of “live” training for those who may not be computer savvy or who would just rather attend a one day seminar to achieve their certification. Log onto www.agcmass.org and click on events to find dates for OSHA ten hour training.