International Operating Engineer - Winter 2018

HAZMAT
IUOE Safety and Health Instructors Take
Advantage of Courses Around the Country
HAZWOPER Train-the-Trainer (TTT)
Twenty-five instructors from 16 IUOE Locals attended
the HAZWOPER Train-the-Trainer course held in June at
Local 66’s training site in New Alexandria, PA. Successful
completion of this course allows the instructor to teach
the 40-, 24-, 16-, and 8-hour HAZWOPER courses, and the
8-hour HAZWOPER Supervisor course.
The instructors gained knowledge in the basic concepts of
the HAZWOPER standards, teaching techniques, industrial
hygiene and toxicology, hazard communication (includes
GHS), respirators and respiratory protection, personal
protective equipment, instrumentation and monitoring,
confined space, medical monitoring, radiation, heat/cold
stress, emergency response, decontamination, work zones,
and drum handling. At the end of the course the students
participate in a large-scale, hands-on Hazmat site cleanup
simulation exercise that incorporates what they have learned
in the course.
OSHA 2264 Permit-Required Confined Space
Six instructors from five IUOE Locals attended the OSHA
2264 Permit-Required Confined Space course held in June
at Local 513’s training site in Silex, MO. The instructors
gained knowledge in topics such as identifying a permitrequired
confined space, hazards of confined spaces, safe
confined space entry including proper air monitoring and
upper and lower explosive limits. Instructors participated
in a demonstration of air movement in a confined space and
several simulated confined space entries.
Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) Training
Workshop (Part 48)
Fourteen instructors from seven IUOE Locals attended
MSHA Training Workshops held in June and September at
the MSHA Safety and Health Training Academy in Beaver,
WV. IUOE instructors must compete this course to apply
to become MSHA instructors and be able to train members
to work jobs under MSHA jurisdiction. Once an instructor
receives his/her MSHA teaching credential they can then
teach the 24-hour New Miner and 8-hour Miner Refresher
classes.
[above] HAZWOPER Train-the-Trainer
[below] OSHA 2264 Permit-Required Confined Space
[above] Rigging Safety/Signaling Safety Trainer Course
[above] OSHA 510 Standards and OSHA 500 Trainer Course
[below] OSHA 510 Standards and OSHA 500 Trainer Course
Rigging Safety/Signaling Safety Trainer
Twenty instructors from 12 IUOE Locals attended the Rigging
Safety/Signaling Safety Trainer course held in July at Local
14’s training site in Montrose, NY. The instructors gained
knowledge in topics such as slings and rigging hardware,
sling configurations, rigging plans, rigger qualification
criteria and protocol, and signal person qualification criteria
and protocol for issuing cards as qualified rigger and/or
qualified signal person evaluator. Exercises included cable
seizing, Christmas tree rigging, and effective weight among
others.
OSHA 502 Update for Construction Industry
Outreach Trainers
Thirty-nine instructors from 25 IUOE Locals attended the
OSHA 502 class held in July at Local 478’s training site in
Meriden, CT. The course used the new format of facilitating
discussion instead of requiring instructors to prepare and
give a presentation. This format is very informative and
provides them with more materials they could use in their
own classes.
OSHA 510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for
the Construction Industry and OSHA 500 Trainer Course
in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the
Construction Industry
Twenty-five instructors from 13 IUOE Locals attended the
OSHA 510 standards course, and 23 instructors attended the
OSHA 500 Trainer course. Both classes were held in August
at Local 49’s training site in Hinckley, MN. The instructors
gained knowledge in the OSHA construction standards,
policies and procedures, and how to use and read the 29
CFR 1926 standards during the OSHA 510. The OSHA 500
requires instructors to give an OSHA presentation with
special emphasis placed on those topics that are required in
the 10- and 30-hour Construction Outreach courses as well
as applicable topics that are the most hazardous to Operating
Engineers. Completion of this course allows instructors to
teach the 10- and 30-hour OSHA Construction Industry
Outreach courses.
An additional OSHA 510 standards course and OSHA 500
Trainer course were held at the Maritime Center in Baltimore,
MD in October/November. Twenty-nine instructors from 13
IUOE Locals attended the 510 course and 34 instructors from
nine IUOE Locals attended the 500 course.
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