Occupational safety training is a valuable and informative way to enhance the safe environment of the campus community. The Environmental Health & Safety Department offers training throughout the year. We invite you to read the training course descriptions and if you'd like more information, please call EHS at Extension 7 5 1 7 9 or e-mail ehs@csusb.edu.
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The campus Safety Training Policy
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All training takes place in ES 107 (EHS Building) unless otherwise noted.
The purpose of the Arc Flash Safety Program is to establish minimum standards to prevent hazardous electrical exposures to personnel and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to electrical systems. The program is designed to help ensure that energized electrical work at CSUSB is performed safely by authorized employees, who are trained and provided with the appropriate safe work procedures, protective equipment and other controls. The program is intended to ensure that employees are protected against electrical shock, burns and other potential electrical safety hazards as well as comply with regulatory requirements.
Audience: Mandatory for Facilities Services Building Service Engineers and Electricians.
Asbestos awareness provides answers to questions like what is asbestos, what are the hazards, should I be worried about exposure to asbestos while at work. This training session will answer your questions and more.
Audience: Mandatory annual training for all employees who are likely to be exposed to asbestos containing materials.
Sitting, carrying, standing, bending, lifting, pushing, or pulling can all affect the back in different ways. We will teach the proper procedures for performing these activities based on the currently accepted orthopedic and ergonomic research.
Audience: Open to the campus community.
The nature of certain job classifications and tasks may have the potential for exposing some personnel to potentially infectious bodily fluids this session covers prudent practices and the universal precautions approach when dealing with bodily fluids.
Audience: Mandatory annual training for Health Center, University Police, Facilities Services and other areas that have this exposure potential.
To maintain proficiency and to learn of changes in the regulations for making a Confined Space Entry a refresher and update training is being offered.
Audience: All persons previously trained in Confined Space Entry.
An American Red Cross certified trainer will cover Adult CPR, Automated External Defibrillator, and First Aid in this six hour course. To receive certification for the American Red Cross CPR/AED and First Aid Training, participants must demonstrate skills taught in the practice sessions on a manikin. You must be able to complete 5 full cycles of rescue breaths and chest compressions in a 2 minute period on a manikin placed on the floor. If you have concerns about these certification requirements, or need to discuss any physical limitations, please call Catherine Schinhofen at extension 7 3 0 9 2.
Audience: Open to all Facilities Services employees. Mandatory for qualified electrical workers.
Ergonomics can help reduce overuse and repetitive motion and the disorders that straining your body can cause. One-third of all occupational injuries and illnesses occur when people strain their bodies beyond safe limits or when they do the same thing over and over without allowing time for their bodies to recover. Once you attend an ergonomic training session, you may request a workstation evaluation, which is primarily used to find solutions to prevent injuries, and make your workstation more comfortable.
Audience: Open to the campus community.
Falls are the third highest cause of workplace fatalities, behind homicides and motor vehicle deaths. The proper use of personal fall protection equipment could prevent these losses, but often workers fail to use the equipment they have or use it in the wrong way. All workers must be trained on each specific aerial lift work platform used to complete their tasks.
Audience: Mandatory for Facilities Services Staff any anyone intending to use an aerial work platform.
There is no second chance when it comes to fire. Work-related fires have taken the lives of hundreds of people and injured countless others. But fires are tragedies that don't have to happen. In this Fire Safety Training course you'll learn:
Come join us (weather permitting) with this hands-on training on a live fire. Mandatory for ALL employees.
As a component to material handling, this training is required for the safe operation of forklifts.
Audience: Mandatory for all previously certified employees and anyone intending to use a forklift.
The Hearing Conservation Program is established to conserve employees' hearing and protect employees from excessive industrial noise. Topics discussed include:
Your workplace can contain hazards. To be safe, you are required to wear the right personal protective equipment (PPE) whenever you work in a potentially hazardous situation. EHS can help you choose the right PPE for your job and train you in the following areas:
Audience: Facilities Services Staff
Heat Illness is a serious medical condition resulting from the body’s inability to cope with a particular heat load, and includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat stroke. The session covers risk factors, procedures for identifying, evaluating, and controlling exposure, importance of frequent consumption of water, signs and symptoms of heat illness, and procedures for responding to heat illness.
Audience: Mandatory for Facilities Services Staff and campus community personnel who work outdoors and their supervisors.
When you work with chemicals in a laboratory, you must: understand the hazards, follow safe work practices, and know how to protect yourself during normal operations and in emergencies. CSUSB provides tools and equipment to work safely and spells out safe operating procedures in the Chemical Hygiene Plan. This course teaches you that by following proper procedures and using your tools and equipment correctly, you can work safely with even the most hazardous chemicals.
Audience: Laboratory workers
Lead Awareness training provides individuals with information on what to look for, how to identify possible hazards and what to do if an exposure is suspected.
Audience: Mandatory for Facilities Services staff.
Energy appears in the workplace in the form of electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and thermal energy (e.g. chemical, water, gaseous, steam). This training covers procedures to prevent the unexpected energization, start up or release of stored energy that could cause injury to employees.
Audience: Mandatory for BMC, HAC and Facilities Services Leads and Supervisors.
The California Labor Code and Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations both require the development and enforcement of a policy, such as an "Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP)." The university has developed a program in the form of the "Environmental Health and Safety Policy." This Policy addresses many issues and clearly identifies: the responsibilities of managers; communication procedures; identifying and evaluating hazards; inventorying and labeling requirements; hazard investigation and mitigation; training; and record keeping requirements. Each of these items is presented and discussed in the training given to all employees.
There is no second chance when it comes to fire. Work-related fires have taken the lives of hundreds of people and injured countless others. But fires are tragedies that don't have to happen. In this Fire Safety Training course you'll learn:
Audience: Mandatory for all new staff employees.
The selection, use, and care of proper respiratory protection is a vital component in preventing an injury, illness or even life saving. The answers to when and why respiratory protection is needed are provided in this program. Audience: Mandatory for all respirator users.
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