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OHSA has incorporated new security features into the 10 and 30 hour wallet cards issued to trainees after completing the OSHA Outreach training courses by the trainers. This is something new and OSHA had incorporated the new features quietly. Numerous states and general contractors have possession of the a 10 hour or 30 hour OSHA training card, which is mandatory for workers on certain sites but, there are quite a lot of cases where bogus cards were sold or provided to workers or their employers. The OSHA wallet-sized cards are the same in terms of its size and colors, which is gold for the construction courses and medium blue for the general industry courses. However, in the new cards, the OSHA logo will be there in the upper left hand corner with the letter ‘O’ in blue ink. Again depending on the OSHA course completed a large number ‘10’ for OSHA 10 hour training and ‘30’ for OSHA 30 hour training will be placed faintly in the front center of the OSHA cards. These two new features ar...

As always, OSHA has come out with an innovative ideas to help the workers regarding safety and health at working place. OSHA Buffalo Area Office has constituted four alliances to ensure and enhance safety and health at the working place for a cross-section of workers in western New York. Arthur Dube, OSHA's area director in Buffalo, said, "Each of these alliances is targeted to a distinct group of workers in western New York - workers in construction, general industry, health care and small business, as well as Hispanic workers. Each alliance will provide information and training on work-related hazards and safeguards, and help workers understand their rights under the Occupational Safety and Health Act." OSHA's regional administrator Robert Kulick says on this matter that they share with their alliance partners the common goal to equip the workers with the knowledge and ability so that they could identify and address workplace hazards and return home healthy and wh...

Now, OSHA Outreach training is made mandated by many states and every year more states are seen attentive to grab the opportunity. At this time, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island are the states that have accepted the OSHA Outreach training as a mandatory one. The more attractive point that the these courses offer is that they are available in many convenient ways that can completely suit you or your business. These OSHA safety training courses suit every kind of companies whether it is a larger company, mid-sized company or small sized company. For larger companies, to hire an on site instructor will make sense as he can teach an entire workforce at once. There are so many benefits of these types of learning regarding a unified environment, single instructor cost, and no cost individual fee. A mid-sized company can take the opportunity to get an on site OSHA safety training. They can prefer an online safety school that offers a...