OSHA #500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Construction

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Harvey McGill
Seats Available: 10

OSHA #7415 OSHA Construction Industry Requirements (Major Hazards and Prevention)

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Course credits: 1.2

This course provides pertinent information regarding OSHA requirements and guidelines applicable to construction industry activities and operations.

Instructor(s): Mr. Richard Gleason
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #503 Update for General Industry Outreach Trainers

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 1.8

This course is for OSHA Outreach Training Program general industry trainers who have completed OSHA #501 and whose trainer authorization has not expired before the first day of class. Provides an update on OSHA general industry standards, policies, and regulations. Trainers are required to attend this course (or OSHA #501) once every four years to maintain their authorized trainer status.

Prerequisites: OSHA #501 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health for General Industry

Instructor(s): Gina Facca
Seats Available: 19

OSHA #7400 Occupational Noise Exposure Hazards

Post Falls, ID
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Course credits: 0.75

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Jesse Michaletz
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #7410 Managing Excavation/Trenching Operations

Post Falls, ID
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Course credits: 0.7

This course focuses on OSHA’s excavation standard (CFR 1926 Subpart P) with explanations of competent person responsibilities, inspection requirements, soil analysis, use of protective systems, and emergency response procedures for excavation work (cave-in).

Instructor(s): Ms. Dalena Tripplet
Seats Available: 37

OSHA #5602 Update for Disaster Site Worker Trainer Course

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Cost: $195
Course credits: 0.75

For individuals who have completed OSHA #5600 and whose trainer authorization has not expired before the first day of class. This course provides an update of new technical and regulatory information related to disaster response. Participants will have the opportunity to share lessons learned and refresh their knowledge about various topics covered previously in the OSHA #5600 trainer course. Trainers are required to attend this course (or OSHA #5600) once every four years to maintain their authorized trainer status.

Prerequisite: OSHA #5600 Disaster Site Worker Trainer Course

Instructor(s): Edward Woodford
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #7300 Understanding OSHA's Permit-Required Confined Space Standard

Post Falls, ID
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Free! – Registration required
Course credits: 0.7

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Jesse Michaletz
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #7215 Silica in Construction, Maritime, and General Industries

Post Falls, ID
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Course credits: 0.7

This course covers the development and implementation of controls and strategies to prevent or mitigate silica exposures in construction, maritime, and general industries.

Instructor(s): Ms. Dalena Tripplet
Seats Available: 37

OSHA #7405 Fall Hazard Awareness for the Construction Industry

Post Falls, ID
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Course credits: 0.5

This one day course is designed to teach to students how to identify fall hazards and methods to control and abate the hazards.

Instructor(s): Mr. Jesse Michaletz
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar

Post Falls, ID
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Free! – Registration required
Course credits: 0.4

This 4-hour course is designated to assist employers in identifying and fulfilling their responsibilities for posting certain records, maintaining records of illness and injuries, and reporting specific cases to OSHA. Several practice sessions are included.

Instructor(s): Ms. Dalena Tripplet
Seats Available: 37

OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Edward Woodford
Seats Available: 12

OSHA #3115 Fall Protection

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.0

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Jesse Michaletz
Seats Available: 14

OSHA #502 Update for Construction Industry Outreach Trainers

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 1.8

This course is for OSHA Outreach Training Program construction industry trainers who have completed OSHA #500 and whose trainer authorization has not expired before the first day of class. Provides an update on OSHA construction standards, policies, and regulations. Trainers are required to attend this course (or OSHA #500) once every four years to maintain their authorized trainer status.

Prerequisites: OSHA #500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health for Construction

Instructor(s): Mr. Harvey McGill
Seats Available: 16

OSHA #503 Update for General Industry Outreach Trainers

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 1.8

This course is for OSHA Outreach Training Program general industry trainers who have completed OSHA #501 and whose trainer authorization has not expired before the first day of class. Provides an update on OSHA general industry standards, policies, and regulations. Trainers are required to attend this course (or OSHA #501) once every four years to maintain their authorized trainer status.

Prerequisites: OSHA #501 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health for General Industry

Instructor(s): Mr. Harvey McGill
Seats Available: 19

OSHA #3015 Excavation, Trenching and Soil Mechanics

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.0

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. David Baker
Seats Available: 26

OSHA #521 OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Stephanie Carter, Mr. Martin Cohen, Mr. Gerry Croteau, Allison Crollard
Seats Available: 18

Supervisory Safety & Health Duties

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.0
This course covers general safety and health requirements from the standpoint of supervising, training, administering, and organizing safety and health programs. It includes regulatory requirements and specific applications for written program requirements, documentation, discipline, hazard evaluation, and control and compliance.
Instructor(s): Mr. Harvey McGill
Seats Available: 18

OSHA #2225 Respiratory Protection

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

This course covers the requirements for the establishment, maintenance, and monitoring of a respirator program. Topics include OSHA and ANSI standards, NIOSH certifications, and medical evaluation recommendations. Course includes a discussion of both quantitative and qualitative respirator fit testing.

Instructor(s): Gina Facca
Seats Available: 25

OSHA #511 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Ms. Ann Lindsey
Seats Available: 30

OSHA #7500 Introduction to Safety and Health Management

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Cost: $195
Course credits: 0.55

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Richard Gleason
Seats Available: 26

Fostering Psychological Capital & Emotional Effectiveness

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Live virtual sessions: March 11, 18, and 25, 2025 3pm-5:30pm PT
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Cost: $499 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 1.0

Effective Emotions and Psychological Capital in the Workplace

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.

Instructor(s): Molly Breysse Cox
Seats Available: 45

Advancing Methods for Worker Exposure Evaluation and Judgements

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March 11 AND 13, 2025 8:30am-12:00pm PT
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Cost: $300 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 0.65

The occupational and environmental health and safety professional uses personal judgement, qualitative information and quantitative data to evaluate worker exposures to airborne contaminants, and other agents. New tools and strategies are emerging to improve professional judgment in health-related exposure assessments. This course will explain why and how it is feasible to apply multiple approaches and new tools to make judgments with a higher degree of precision and accuracy.  The instructors have developed curriculum to augment and expand the concepts identified in the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s course entitled “Improving Exposure Judgements: An Introduction to Industrial Hygiene Statistics.” 


OSHA #7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar

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Cost: $145
Course credits: 0.4

This 4-hour course is designated to assist employers in identifying and fulfilling their responsibilities for posting certain records, maintaining records of illness and injuries, and reporting specific cases to OSHA. Several practice sessions are included.

Instructor(s): Mr. Richard Gleason
Seats Available: 30

OSHA #2264 Permit-Required Confined Space Entry

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.0
This course covers the recognition of confined space hazards, use of instrumentation to evaluate atmospheric hazards, ventilation techniques, and confined space program elements. The requirements for a permit, non-permit and alternate procedures confined space are also covered. Specific duties of entrants, attendants, supervisors and rescue are discussed.
Instructor(s): Mr. Bruce Millies
Seats Available: 20

OSHA #511 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Edward Woodford
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #501 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry

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Cost: $795 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.6

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Troy Corbin
Seats Available: 17

OSHA #3115 Fall Protection

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 1.8

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.

Instructor(s): Mr. Jesse Michaletz
Seats Available: 21

OSHA #6005 Collateral Duty Course for Other Federal Agencies

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Cost: $695 – Some discounts available
Course credits: 2.25

This course enables participants to recognize basic safety and health hazards in the workplace, learn abatement methods for selected safety and health hazards, learn workplace inspection procedures consistent with established OSHA policies, procedures, and directives, learn the OSH Act, 29 CFR 1960, 29 CFR 1910, and major provisions of Executive Order 12196, and conduct a mock inspection of a government facility.

Instructor(s): Mr. Harvey McGill
Seats Available: 26

OSHA #7105 Evacuation and Emergency Planning

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Course credits: 0.4

This course covers OSHA requirements for emergency action and fire protection plans and includes workshops pertaining to the development of emergency action plans. Upon course completion students will have the ability to list the elements of an emergency action plan and emergency evacuation floor plans, recognize violations of OSHA exit route requirements, determine whether their organization requires an emergency action plan, and develop and implement workplace emergency action and fire protection plans.

Instructor(s): Mr. Richard Gleason
Seats Available: 0


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.

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