WEL 1070 - Core Book Orientation and Safety

1. Explain the idea of a safety culture and its importance in the construction crafts.
2. Identify causes of accidents and the impact of accident costs.
3. Explain the role of OSHA in job-site safety.
4. Explain OSHA’s General Duty Clause and 1926 CFR Subpart C.
5. Recognize hazard recognition and risk assessment techniques.
6. Explain fall protections, ladder, stair, and scaffold procedures and requirements.
7. Identify struck-by-hazards and demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements.
8. Identify caught-in-between hazards and demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements.
9. Define safe work procedures to use around electrical hazards.
10. Demonstrate the use and care of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
11. Explain the importance of hazard communications (HazCom) and material safety data sheets (MSDSs).
12. Identify other construction hazards on your job site, including hazardous material exposures, environmental elements, welding and cutting hazards, confined spaces, and fires.
13. Add, Subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, with and without a calculator.
14. Use standard ruler, a metric ruler, and a measuring tape to measure.
15. Add, subtract, multiply, divide fractions.
16. Add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals, with and without a calculator.
17. Convert decimals to percentages to fractions
18. Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
19. Explain what the metric system is and how it is important in the construction trade.
20. Recognize and use metric units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.
21. Recognize some of the basic shapes used in the construction industry and apply basic geometry to measure them.
22. Recognize and identify some of the basic hand tools and their proper uses in the construction trade.
23. Visually inspect hand tools to determine if they are safe to use.
24. Safely use hand tools.
25. Identify power tools commonly used in the construction trades.
26. Use power tools safely.
27. Explain how to maintain power tools properly.
28. Recognize and identify basic construction drawing terms, components, and symbols.
29. Relate information on construction drawings to actual locations on the print.
30. Recognize different classifications of construction drawings.
31. Interpret and use drawing dimensions.
32. Identify and describe the use of slings and common rigging hardware.
33. Describe basic inspection of techniques and rejection criteria used for slings and hardware.
34. Describe basic hitch configurations and their proper connections.
35. Describe basic load-handling safety practices.
36. Demonstrate proper use of American society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) hand signals.
37. Interpret information and instructions presents in both verbal and written form.
38. Communicate effectively in on-the-job situations using verbal and written skills.
39. Communicate effectively on the job using electronic communication devices.
40. Explain the role of an employee in the construction industry.
41. Demonstrate critical thinking skills and the ability to solve problems using those skills.
42. Demonstrate knowledge of computer systems and explain common used for computer sin the construction industry.
43. Define effective relationship skills.
44. Recognize workplace issue such as sexual harassment, stress, and substance abuse.
45. Define a load.
46. Establish a pre-task plan prior to moving a load.
47. Use proper materials-handling techniques.
48. Choose appropriate materials-handling equipment for the task.
49. Recognize hazards and follow safety procedures required for materials handling.