What are the Advantages of Getting My OSHA Card?

OSHA cards are available as compact, wallet-sized cards you can keep on hand. In short, they simply come from completing an OSHA 10-hour or a 30-hour course.

OSHA cards are not considered a certification of any type by OSHA. Instead, the cards are your employer’s evidence that you have participated in training.

OSHA cards are occasionally referred to as “DOL cards.” Typically, this is the case if you earn your OSHA card via the OSHA Outreach Training Program.

Do I Need an OSHA Card?

OSHA does not require you to have an OSHA card to begin working. An OSHA card may or may not be required by your employer to get started.

OSHA cards are not a license to work. They just demonstrate that you took a class that informed you about workplace hazards and safety precautions so as to avoid injury or death.

Construction Workers First up you’re going to want are currently at a construction job site or applying for one, the majority of employers will require entry level workers have an OSHA card, it’s likely that this means they need to complete the OSHA 10 Construction course. It’s because the risk factor in construction industry is so high. Other dangerous working environments, such as factories, may ask you to earn an OSHA card through the completion of an OSHA 10 General Industry class.

How Can I Get an OSHA Card?

An OSHA 10 or 30 course grants an OSHA card. These are available from a number of third-party instructors, such as this Albuquerque-based safety training company called Safety Counseliing.

We have several OSHA 10-hour construction classes and several OSHA 30-hour construction a month, in fact we have them all year long. This is OSHA Aligned course.

Included in the courses are ten or thirty physical training hours, course material (whether you choose to take an OSHA 10-hour or OSHA 30 course), quizzes, a final exam, and a practical exam.

OSHA 10 and 30 Courses

OSHA 10-hour courses are aimed at entry-level workers who may have limited exposure to a workplace’s hazards. This course features basic safety practices, common workplace hazards and danger signs, how to eliminate or prevent workplace dangers, and workers’ rights.

OSHA 30-hour classes are for administrators and workers with job site safety supervisory responsibilities. More extensive and more centered on safety responsibilities than the OSHA 10 training.

There is also an OSHA 10 and 30 course for the marine, general and the construction trades. No other career fields or subject matter offers OSHA 10 and 30 courses or cards upon completion.

Does OSHA Have Training Requirements?

All employers are required by OSHA to create a place of employment that is free of hazards. Sometimes that includes the requirement to give their staff enough training in safety so they can work safely. Preparation for all training should be arranged and compensated for by the employer.

There are very few training obligations, other than those prescribed directly by OSHA. This is only working in special conditions or being certified to work some machines.

But many employers opt for requiring their employees to take an OSHA 10 course anyhow so that they are better equipped to respond and comply with workplace hazards, and are more amenable to safety practices.

Do OSHA Cards Expire?

OSHA cards do not expire. (However, there are some scenarios when you would be required to retake the corresponding OSHA 10 or 30-hour classes.) Your employer may ask that you take refresher training at an interval of 1-3 years. What’s more, if you lose the card, you have to retake the course — unless it’s before five years of when you first took the course.

How Do I Replace a Lost OSHA Card?

If you need to replace an OSHA card when you took the OSHA course that was done through the Outreach Program, then be sure to contact your instructor or the provider aligned under OSHA.

Once they have this information, the Outreach trainer will call their OSHA Education Center and make arrangements for a replacement person on your behalf.

One replacement OSHA card only is allowed, and there is a $45 charge for the replacement card. If you lose your card again after that, it must be repeated with the OSHA Outreach Training course associated with this particular card.

It is much easier to replace an OSHA card that was obtained through a Safety Counseling course. You only have to pull out your wallet card again and you are good to go.

What Are the Advantages of OSHA Card?

There are three significant advantages to having an OSHA card. These three benefits are:

• Enhanced safety across the company – Completing OSHA 10 or 30-hour training means you’re a safer employee. In these programs, you discover several safety practices that keep employees safe and reduces the chances of injury as well as accidents.
• Better employment opportunities – Completing one of both of these trainings makes you a stronger applicant than someone who does not have the training.
• Inexpensive – When you are a safer employee, it’s less likely that you will get into accidents on the job and cost yourself and company more money.

All of those individual cards also come with their own perks. For instance, the OSHA 10 card tells employers that you have successfully passed the course. You receive credentials that demonstrate you have knowledge and skills specific to the industry that can help prevent injuries and keep the job site safe and productive.

Supervisors and safety experts holding a OSHA 30-hour card have extensive knowledge of hazards in the workplace. It says that they have completed 30 hours of specialized training in avoiding on-the-job hazards. It also demonstrates that they are ready to take a leading role in developing an occupational safety culture.

Where Can I Find OSHA 10-Hour Training?

You’ve read about all the certifications and training requirements, but then you scratch your head and think: where do I even begin?

Well, you’re in luck.

You see, things are a little different around here at Safety Counseling where our staffs wake up every day with just one thing on their minds: How can I make the best training classes be even better and more affordable to you!

Our Description of Safety Classes

At Safety Counseling, our mission is about providing easy and economical access to safety training. What we envision is to enable orgs to prevent accidents and deaths by unyielding thorough training. Our training content is updated which allows us to provide the most effective options for OSHA Your way Today!

OSHA Aligned Courses

All of our classes follow OSHA Guidelines and include everything you need for the best protection. We do have OSHA 10-Hour Construction and OSHA 30-Hour Construction safety training!

Our Courses

We have in-personed classes at classrooms only right now!

For OSHA 10 and 30-hour courses, you also have the option of getting a wallet card for your certificate, if employee’s needs to take it wherever they go.

Here’s Your Sign

This is your sign to get OSHA certified now. There are several good reasons to take an OSHA 10 or 30-hour class, as both the employee and employer (or company) benefit in numerous way. Contact our customer service team to become OSHA certified TODAY!

Official OSHA Outreach Cards

For starters, an OSHA card is just short for the 10 and 30 hour safety training courses offered as part of the OSHA Outreach Training Program. After you finish one of the courses above, an OSHA-authorized provider gives you a card that says you completed it.

Which Card Do You Need?

“The 30-hour course is for supervisors or workers with some safety responsibility,” and “The 10-hour course is for entry-level people. Army of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs you will pick which class best meets the needs of your industry and employer. Discuss the best option for you with your employer.

Why Get an OSHA Card?

Enhanced Company Safety: If you are safety trained, you are safer. You learn some safe practices that will help prevent your injury or accident at the job site in OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour courses. Think of how much safer it would be if everyone at your company got the safety training they needed.

• Better Job Opportunities: Although OSHA doesn’t mandate you take a 10 or 30-hour course, some employers, states and unions/job sites do require this training. The fact that you have received job specific training demonstrates that you likely know how to work safely on a job site. Then, why not take the OSHA 10-hour or 30-hour class? That training makes you a better candidate than someone else who hasn’t been trained.
• Additional Savings: This one is less quantifiable, but you are saving yourself and your company money by being a safer employee who does not have accidents on the job. From equipment failure to medical bills, getting hurt at work is very expensive for you and your employer. And because you’ll know how to avoid accidents, that means you won’t have to worry about those costs in the future.

There you have it! Employers and employees both profit from OSHA cards.

If you are interested in a formal OSHA 10 or OSHA 30, we are working to be able to provide you with the ability to take these courses. To get first notice when they become available, think about taking it one step further by timing your visit with our availability dates on our website or fill out the Contact Us Form here and we will email you or call you as soon as they are available.