MWS 1010 - Orientation and Safety
Clock Hours: 12
Delivery Mode
on-ground
Prerequisites: MWS 0001Worker Characteristics
Course Description:
The Orientation class is required to each student related to the safety and understanding of course design and organization and to prepare students for online learning.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Course Competencies:
Upon completion of this module, you will be able to
- Explain the idea of a safety culture and its importance in the construction crafts.
- Identify causes of accidents and the impact of accident costs.
- Explain the role of OSHA in job-site safety.
- Explain OSHA’s General Duty Clause and 1926 CFR Subpart C.
- Recognize hazard recognition and risk assessment techniques.
- Explain fall protection, ladder, stair, and scaffold procedures and requirements.
- Identify struck-by hazards and demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements.
- Identify caught-in-between hazards and demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements.
- Define safe work procedures to use around electrical hazards.
- Demonstrate the use and care of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Explain the importance of hazard communications (HazCom) and material safety data sheets (MSDSs).
- Identify other construction hazards on your job site, including hazardous material exposures, environmental elements, welding and cutting hazards, confined spaces, and fires.
- Inspect PPE to determine if it is safe to use (PPE should include safety goggles, hard hat, gloves, safety harness, and safety shoes).
- Properly don and remove PPE (safety goggles, hard hat, and personal fall protection).
- Demonstrate safe lifting procedures.
- Set up an extension ladder properly.
- Demonstrate three-point contact on a ladder.
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