On-Demand Courses
Total Worker Health®: Workshop
– Anchorage, AKLearn more
Total Worker Health® (TWH) is a comprehensive approach that ensures that policies, programs, and practices are well-integrated in an organization to protect workers from different work-related safety and health hazards and to promote worker well-being. This workshop will demonstrate the importance of implementing TWH in the Construction Industry and beyond.
OEM Grand Rounds: Occupational Foot & Ankle Injuries: A Guide to Diagnosis, Imaging, Treatment, and When to Ask for Help
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Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.
Total Worker Health®: Advancing Well-Being in the Workplace
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This course serves as the key required course for individuals enrolling in the joint UW DEOHS CE/OHWCTotal Worker Health® (TWH) Certificate Program. Individuals not seeking the TWH Certificate may enroll and attend this introductory course as a standalone. This course is offered in collaboration with the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center and Portland State University Occupational Health Psychology and Total Worker Health Program.
NIOSH-Approved 2-Day Initial Spirometry Training Course
to – Seattle, WALearn more
NIOSH-Approved Spirometry Training courses offered at the University of Washington (UW) incorporate the most recent American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) spirometry testing procedures and interpretation standards. The ATS is the leading medical professional society in the United States that provides evidence based statements for pulmonary function laboratory standards, testing procedures, and the interpretation of test results.
This course is designed for technicians who have never taken the NIOSH Spirometry certification course, or with certificates more than 5 years old. This class is appropriate for novice as well as highly experienced spirometry technicians.
OSHA #7500 Introduction to Safety and Health Management
– Anchorage, AKRegistration ends on
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Using interactive assignments and thought-provoking group projects, students of this one day workshop come away with a strong understanding of the benefits in implementing a safety and health management system in the workplace.
OSHA #7400 Occupational Noise Exposure Hazards
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This course focuses on describing noise hazards in the workplace. Upon completion, students will have the ability to describe sound properties and their relationship to noise-induced hearing loss, hearing protection usage, and using a sound level meter.
OSHA #2225 Respiratory Protection
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OSHA #511 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry
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Federal and state policies, procedures, and standards, as well as general industry safety and health principles. Emphasis on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide.
Fostering Positive Psychological Capital & Emotional Effectiveness
to – Online, Instructor LedLive sessions: Apr 30, May 7, and 14, 2024 3pm-5:30pm PT
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Fostering Positive Psychological Capital & Emotional Effectiveness
People, and how they feel about their work, can have a very significant impact on how they emotionally engage in the workplace each and every day.
Today’s safety leaders need to understand stress, and emotions in the workplace in order to design a healthy work environment for the 21st century. This course will provide opportunities to examine, explore, and practice positive approaches for increasing individual and group levels of motivation, inclusivity and emotional effectiveness with the ultimate goal of fostering a safe work environment.
Past participants have shared the importance of learning about psychological capital, hope, efficacy, resiliency and optimism, as a resource in themselves and in others, in order to prepare the people they lead to effectively cope with stress and to effectively manage their emotions.
Participants will complete an online self-survey to discover what constitutes their positive psychological strengths and potential areas for development.
Root Cause Analysis System for Incident Investigation - Advanced
to – Seattle, WALearn more
This 3-day course explores the principles, methods and tools for digging into the root causes of a workplace injury or fatality. The course begins with a basic introduction to the root cause analysis system for incident investigation and continues with a more in-depth look that will include detailed case scenarios and interactive exercises led by a dynamic and engaging instructor. Course participants will obtain data collection and analysis skills that will equip them to conduct incident investigations and to implement appropriate corrective actions. Health and safety professionals, supervisors and workers with an interest in safety and accident investigation should attend.
OSHA #2045 Machinery and Machine Guarding Standards
to – Seattle, WALearn more
Focus on common machinery types and related safety standards, hazards associated with various types of machinery, and control of hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout).
OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
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Federal and state policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Emphasis on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide.
OSHA #521 OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene
to – Portland, ORRegistration ends on
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Permissible exposure limits, OSHA health standards, regulations and procedures, respiratory protection, engineering controls, hazard communication, sampling instrumentation, workplace health program elements, and other industrial hygiene topics. Workshops in health hazard recognition, OSHA health standards, and safety and health programs.
OSHA #7225 Transitioning to Safer Chemicals
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This course will provide participants with information about and hands-on experience with the process for transitioning to safer chemicals, as well as the key methods, tools, and databases that can assist in this process.
OSHA #500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Construction
to – Anchorage, AKOSHA #5410 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Maritime Industry
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OSHA #500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Construction
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Students who successfully complete this course will be authorized to conduct 10- and 30-hour Construction Outreach classes. This is a trainer course so enrollees will give a presentation on an assigned OSHA Construction Outreach Training Program topic and must successfully pass a written exam at the end of the course.
Prerequisites: Five years of construction safety and health work experience and successful completion of the OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry course within the past 7 years.
OSHA #3015 Excavation, Trenching and Soil Mechanics
to – Seattle, WALearn more
Focus on OSHA standards and on the safety aspects of excavation and trenching. Introduction to practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored slopes and walls of excavation.
OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
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Federal and state policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Emphasis on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide.
OSHA #7405 Fall Hazard Awareness for the Construction Industry
– Idaho Falls, IDLearn more
OSHA #7405 Reconocer los Peligros de Caídas en la Industria de la Construcción (Idioma Español)
– Idaho Falls, IDLearn more
This one day course is designed to teach to students how to identify fall hazards and methods to control and abate the hazards.
OSHA #7300 Understanding OSHA's Permit-Required Confined Space Standard
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This course covers the requirements of the OSHA Permit-Required Confined Space Standard. Course topics include safety and health hazards associated with confined space entry, and the evaluation, prevention, and abatement of these hazards.
OSHA #3015 Excavation, Trenching and Soil Mechanics
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OSHA #501 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry
to – Seattle, WALearn more
Students who successfully complete this course will be authorized to conduct 10- and 30-hour General Industry Outreach classes. This is a trainer course so enrollees will give a presentation on an assigned OSHA General Industry Outreach Training Program topic and must successfully pass a written exam at the end of the course.
Prerequisites: Five years of construction safety and health work experience and successful completion of the OSHA #511 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry course within the past 7 years.
OEM Grand Rounds: Occupational Foot & Ankle Injuries: A Guide to Diagnosis, Imaging, Treatment, and When to Ask for Help
– UW Medicine South Lake Union - E130 A&BLearn more
Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.
OSHA #521 OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene
to – Online Virtual ClassroomRegistration ends on
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Permissible exposure limits, OSHA health standards, regulations and procedures, respiratory protection, engineering controls, hazard communication, sampling instrumentation, workplace health program elements, and other industrial hygiene topics. Workshops in health hazard recognition, OSHA health standards, and safety and health programs.
OSHA #2055 Cranes in Construction
to – Seattle, WALearn more
This course covers the requirements for operation of cranes in the construction industry using the OSHA construction Cranes and Derricks Standard as a guide.
OSHA #3115 Fall Protection
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This course provides an overview of state-of-the-art technology for fall protection. Topics covered include the principles of fall protection, the components of fall arrest systems, the limitations of fall arrest equipment, and OSHA policies regarding fall protection.
OSHA #2015 Hazardous Materials
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OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
to – Seattle, WALearn more
Federal and state policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Emphasis on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide.
The Continuing Education programs offered by the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences provide workplace safety and health training for the fields of general industry, construction, agriculture and the maritime industries.
We serve four states—Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Idaho—with monthly in-person courses, as well as on-demand programs and online virtual instruction led by our expert instructors.
We are the home of the Pacific Northwest OSHA Education Center—the only training facility authorized by OSHA in our region—offering continuing education courses on federal and state safety and health regulations.
We are also home to the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety (NWCOHS). NWCOHS prepares graduate students for careers in occupational health and safety through training programs in occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, industrial hygiene, safety, hazardous materials management, leadership, green chemistry and related disciplines. The NWCOHS Continuing Education Programs provide professional development opportunities for health and safety professionals.