Courses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a health and safety professional, your needs for effectively managing change are complex. You often need to influence others without having positional authority.

Evidence-based models, frameworks, and practical experience come together in a course designed to develop and foster change management practices as a leader, supervisor, and individual. This course will provide frameworks to apply as you navigate through this course and beyond with clients, employees, and organizations that are not ready for or are resistant to change. 

Participants will learn strategies to foster effective change. You'll also build on your network of peers as you share real experiences and challenges. This includes discussions designed to challenge your assumptions and to provide specific ways of thinking that you can employ when addressing real-life interactions.

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.

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.

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.

Transformational Leadership Development

Leadership that drives lasting change goes beyond position and authority, it connects to how people think, feel, and act every day.

This course focuses on the three positive styles of the Full Range Leadership model and the four core components within each style. You will be invited to explore how authentic, transactional, and transformational capabilities influence day-to-day actions, leadership effectiveness, and the impact you have on others.

Through reflection, dialogue, and practical application, you will deepen your awareness of the leadership capabilities that build trust, motivation, and commitment—capabilities essential for creating healthy, safe, and high-performing work environments.

Past participants consistently report that understanding how these leadership styles have strengthened their ability to lead meaningful, positive change across their organizations.

As part of the course, participants will complete a self-assessment to identify leadership strengths and opportunities for growth. This will provide a powerful foundation for developing greater leadership effectiveness in health and safety roles and in the complex, real-world contexts leaders face every day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Accelerating Leadership Development 

Safety improves when motivation is strong.

This course is relevant to leaders at every level because workplace safety is shaped by more than formal authority. Executives and managers influence priorities, resources, and organizational culture, supervisors and team leads translate expectations into daily practices, and frontline employees influence outcomes through communication, peer support, reporting, and modeling safe behaviors. Whether participants are new to leadership, developing their skills, or leading organizational change, the course provides practical insight into how motivation, trust, and positive influence can strengthen safety performance.

Motivation influences whether workers follow procedures, raise concerns, and stay engaged when conditions are challenging. When motivation declines, compliance becomes unreliable and accidents become more likely. Motivation does not stand alone, it is shaped by four core capabilities that determine how leaders grow their capacity to lead in complexity.

This course provides practical insight into the theories, capabilities, and motivational drivers that accelerate leadership effectiveness and strengthen safety performance at every level of an organization.

Past participants include health and safety professionals seeking to improve safety compliance and lead the adoption of rapidly changing workplace requirements. As part of the course, participants complete an online self-survey to examine their motivation and leadership capacity and learn how to activate positive leadership capabilities—referred to as leader developmental readiness.

About the Instructor:

Molly Breysse Cox, MA, PhD, U.W. NW Center for Occupational Health & Safety

Dr. Breysse Cox has over 25 years of change management work experience with Fortune 500 companies. This includes leadership positions in IT, Operations, Customer Service, Product Management, and Marketing. She joined the U.W. Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking in the Foster School of Business in 2014 as a faculty and leadership associate for undergraduate and graduate. Dr. Breysse Cox has experience in transformational change projects, including designing and deploying new technology, organizational change, and leadership development. Her work is focused on fostering trust and psychological safety in education and the workplace. In addition, she was chosen in 2008 as the recipient of Women in Technology International’s Leadership Award for leadership in support of women in IT.

Featured Content Advisor: Bruce Avolio, Executive Director of CLST, UW Foster School of Business; Professor of Management, Mark Pigott Chair in Business Strategic Leadership.

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.

As a health and safety professional, your needs for effectively managing change are complex. You often need to influence others without having positional authority.

Evidence-based models, frameworks, and practical experience come together in a course designed to develop and foster change management practices as a leader, supervisor, and individual. This course will provide frameworks to apply as you navigate through this course and beyond with clients, employees, and organizations that are not ready for or are resistant to change. 

Participants will learn strategies to foster effective change. You'll also build on your network of peers as you share real experiences and challenges. This includes discussions designed to challenge your assumptions and to provide specific ways of thinking that you can employ when addressing real-life interactions.

Transformational Leadership Development

Leadership that drives lasting change goes beyond position and authority, it connects to how people think, feel, and act every day.

This course focuses on the three positive styles of the Full Range Leadership model and the four core components within each style. You will be invited to explore how authentic, transactional, and transformational capabilities influence day-to-day actions, leadership effectiveness, and the impact you have on others.

Through reflection, dialogue, and practical application, you will deepen your awareness of the leadership capabilities that build trust, motivation, and commitment—capabilities essential for creating healthy, safe, and high-performing work environments.

Past participants consistently report that understanding how these leadership styles have strengthened their ability to lead meaningful, positive change across their organizations.

As part of the course, participants will complete a self-assessment to identify leadership strengths and opportunities for growth. This will provide a powerful foundation for developing greater leadership effectiveness in health and safety roles and in the complex, real-world contexts leaders face every day.