Audience: manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, food processing, cold storage, facilities maintenance, utilities, healthcare-support operations, and any employer working under Title 8 Subchapter 7 (General Industry Safety Orders). Programs are bilingual and can be delivered on-site at the facility.
Qualified-person training for electricians, plant maintenance technicians, and facility electrical staff exposed to arc flash hazards on energized equipment. We cover incident energy, working distance, arc-rated PPE selection from the NFPA 70E tables, energized work permits, the boundary system (limited approach, restricted approach, arc flash), and the requirements that drive the employer’s energized electrical work program.
Title 8 §2320.1 (Electrical Safety Orders); NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace).
Initial before qualified electrical work; refresher at least every 3 years per NFPA 70E, sooner when procedures or worker performance indicate retraining is needed.
Awareness-level training for general industry workers who may encounter confined spaces — tanks, vessels, silos, sumps, boilers, HVAC plenums, machine pits, and any space with limited entry, limited egress, and the potential for atmospheric hazards. Covers recognition of permit-required spaces, atmospheric and engulfment hazards, and when to stop and call a qualified entry team.
Title 8 §5157 (Permit-Required Confined Spaces); 29 CFR 1910.146.
Initial at assignment; refresher when procedures or work conditions change. Annual refresher recommended.
Driver-safety training for facility staff who operate company vehicles — sales, service, logistics, route drivers, and parts runners. Covers pre-trip inspections, hazard anticipation, fatigue, distracted driving, route planning, and the unique exposures of operating between facilities and customer sites in mixed urban/highway traffic.
Title 8 §3203 (IIPP); California Vehicle Code; 49 CFR Part 390 for DOT-regulated vehicles.
Initial at assignment of driving duties; annual refresher is best practice and is required by most commercial insurers.
Awareness training for non-electrical general-industry workers exposed to electrical hazards — production crews near energized equipment, maintenance helpers, warehouse workers using powered equipment, and any worker using extension cords and portable tools. Covers safe approach distances, GFCI protection, damaged equipment recognition, lockout basics, and when to stop and call a qualified electrician.
Title 8 §2320 series (Low-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders); §2940 series (High-Voltage); NFPA 70E.
Initial at assignment; refresher when new equipment or procedures are introduced.
Ergonomics training for production lines, packing operations, warehousing, cold storage, and clerical-adjacent industrial roles. Covers repetitive-motion injury prevention on assembly and sorting lines, safe lifting and lowering, sustained reaching, workstation height and reach, vibration exposure, and how supervisors should set up stations to reduce strain across a shift.
Title 8 §5110 (Repetitive Motion Injuries); §3203 (IIPP).
Triggered when repetitive-motion injuries occur or job tasks change; annual refresher is best practice.
Competent Person training for facility maintenance leads, utility supervisors, and project managers responsible for daily inspection of excavations on or around the property. Covers soil classification with visual and manual tests, sloping and benching, shoring and shield system selection, tabulated data, atmospheric testing, daily inspection documentation, and the authority the Competent Person carries to suspend work.
Title 8 §1541 (Excavations) — Competent Person designation; 29 CFR 1926 Subpart P.
Initial designation; refresher when duties, procedures, or site conditions change. Annual refresher is recommended.
Competent Person training for facility maintenance leads, utility supervisors, and project managers responsible for daily inspection of excavations on or around the property. Covers soil classification with visual and manual tests, sloping and benching, shoring and shield system selection, tabulated data, atmospheric testing, daily inspection documentation, and the authority the Competent Person carries to suspend work.
Title 8 §1541 (Excavations) — Competent Person designation; 29 CFR 1926 Subpart P.
Initial designation; refresher when duties, procedures, or site conditions change. Annual refresher is recommended.
Two-year certification course for designated facility first-aid responders — production supervisors, warehouse leads, safety committee members. Covers adult CPR, AED use, choking response, severe-bleeding control, fractures, chemical exposure first aid, and the response realities of a multi-acre facility where the responder may be five minutes from the affected worker.
29 CFR 1910.151 (Medical Services and First Aid); ANSI Z308.1; ASHI / AHA / American Red Cross curriculum.
Initial certification valid 2 years; refresher every 2 years.
IVES-certified operator training for sit-down counterbalance, stand-up reach, narrow-aisle, and rough-terrain forklifts, plus scissor lifts and boom lifts (MEWPs). Training includes formal instruction, hands-on practical, and a workplace evaluation on the operator’s actual equipment. Operators receive a wallet card and the employer receives the documentation package needed for a Cal/OSHA audit.
Title 8 §3668 (Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training); 29 CFR 1910.178(l); ANSI/SAIA A92.22 and A92.24 for MEWPs.
Initial before solo operation; operator evaluation every 3 years, or sooner upon incident, near-miss, equipment change, or unsafe operation.
HazCom training built around the chemicals used in general industry — solvents and degreasers, lubricants and metalworking fluids, sanitizers and cleaning chemicals, refrigerants, welding gases, and process chemicals specific to your operation. Covers SDS, GHS labels and pictograms, secondary container labeling, the written hazard communication program, and how to brief temporary and contractor workers.
Title 8 §5194 (Hazard Communication / GHS); 29 CFR 1910.1200.
Initial at assignment and whenever a new hazardous chemical is introduced; annual refresher is recommended.
Hazardous materials training for general-industry workers who handle, store, ship, or respond to chemical releases — chemical storage rooms, drum-handling areas, shipping and receiving for regulated goods, and any operation with an Emergency Action Plan that includes spill response. Course scope is matched to role: HAZWOPER awareness, operations level, or technician level, with DOT shipping training as an add-on.
Title 8 §5192 (HAZWOPER); §5194 (HazCom); 29 CFR 1910.120; 49 CFR Parts 172–177 (DOT HazMat).
Initial scoped to role; 8-hour HAZWOPER refresher annually; DOT shipping training every 3 years. Records retained 3 years.
Combined outdoor and indoor heat illness training. Covers the long-standing outdoor rule (§3395) — shade, water, rest, acclimatization, high-heat procedures — and the newer indoor heat rule (§3396) effective 2024, which applies to indoor work areas at or above 82°F and adds cooling-area, written-plan, and assessment requirements. Both employees and supervisors are trained.
Title 8 §3395 (Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention) and §3396 (Indoor Heat Illness Prevention — effective 2024).
Initial before exposure and annually thereafter, for both employees and supervisors.
LOTO training for authorized and affected workers servicing production machinery, conveyors, HVAC, electrical panels, hydraulic systems, and stored-energy systems. Covers energy identification, isolation, lockout devices and tags, group lockout, machine-specific procedures, and the annual procedure inspection required of every employer with a LOTO program.
Title 8 §3314 (Control of Hazardous Energy); §2320.4 (Electrical LOTO); 29 CFR 1910.147.
Initial before authorized work; whenever procedures change. Procedure inspection required at least annually.
Qualitative fit testing for N95 filtering facepiece respirators used in facility operations — particulate exposure in manufacturing, food-processing dust, healthcare-support work, and wildfire-smoke events. Includes donning training, seal-check practice, and the saccharin or Bitrex qualitative fit test, with documentation for the employee file and the respiratory protection program.
Title 8 §5144 (Respiratory Protection); 29 CFR 1910.134, Appendix A; California wildfire-smoke rule §5141.1.
Initial before respirator use; fit test repeated annually and when facial structure or respirator model changes.
General industry night work spans a wide range of environments — cold-storage and food-processing facilities on overnight production runs, warehouses with second and third shifts, utilities running emergency repairs after dark, and manufacturing plants that operate 24 hours. Each setting has distinct lighting and visibility requirements under California law. This course covers the illumination minimums required by Title 8 §3317 (Table IL-1: 5 foot-candles minimum for general areas, aisles, passageways, and warehousing; 10 foot-candles for general manufacturing areas and workbenches; 30 foot-candles for fine work and close inspection; 50 foot-candles for extra fine bench work); the employer’s duty to provide adequate and suitable natural or artificial lighting for a reasonably safe workplace; portable and emergency lighting requirements for areas where permanent lighting may fail; high-visibility apparel for workers in forklift-traffic zones on overnight shifts; fatigue management for second and third-shift workers including circadian-rhythm effects, microsleep risks, and how supervisors should monitor shift workers for impairment that looks different at 3 AM than at 10 AM; after-dark security exposure and the interface between night operations and the SB 553 Workplace Violence Prevention Plan; and cold-work considerations for overnight cold-storage workers. Supervisors are trained on the before-shift lighting walk-through, fatigue observation, and emergency response when visibility is limited.
Title 8 §3317 (Illumination — General Industry, Table IL-1); 29 CFR 1910.303(b)(2) (electrical equipment room lighting); §3380 (PPE — high-visibility apparel); §3203 (IIPP); §3395/§3396 (heat illness — indoor night operations in warm facilities); NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 78 (Health and Safety Risks for Workers Who Sleep at Unusual Times).
Initial before first night-shift assignment; annual refresher recommended and aligns with the IIPP annual review cycle. Supervisor fatigue observation training aligned with Reasonable Suspicion refresher cycle.
PPE training matched to general-industry hazards — eye and face protection for grinding and chemical handling, hearing protection in production areas, cut-resistant gloves for food and material processing, chemical-resistant gloves and aprons, foot protection, and high-visibility apparel for forklift-traffic zones. Covers the written hazard assessment that drives PPE selection.
Title 8 §3380 (PPE General Requirements); 29 CFR 1910.132.
Initial at assignment and whenever PPE type or workplace hazard changes; annual refresher is best practice.
Supervisor training to recognize and document the objective signs of impairment in a facility setting. Covers behavioral, physical, and performance indicators of drug and alcohol impairment, how to document observations without making medical conclusions, how to handle the conversation with the employee, and how to coordinate testing or removal from safety-sensitive duties.
Title 8 §3203 (IIPP); 49 CFR Part 40 for any DOT-regulated supervisors; California DIR guidance.
Initial before supervisor designation; refresher every 5 years is recommended best practice. DOT-regulated supervisors require 2 hours.
Full respiratory protection program training for general industry workers using N95s, half-mask cartridge respirators, full-face APRs, or supplied-air systems — welding fume, paint and coating vapors, particulate exposures, chemical handling, and confined-space monitoring. Covers respirator selection, medical evaluation, fit testing, user seal checks, cartridge change-out, and the program-administrator duties the employer must own.
Title 8 §5144 (Respiratory Protection); 29 CFR 1910.134
nitial before respirator use; annual training and fit test; whenever conditions or respirator type change.
California-mandated harassment prevention training for general-industry workforces — production crews, shift teams, supervisors, and remote and hybrid office staff supporting field operations. Covers the legal framework, bystander intervention, abusive conduct, gender identity and expression, and the 1-hour non-supervisor and 2-hour supervisor versions, in English and Spanish.
California Government Code §12950.1 (FEHA), implementing AB 1825, SB 1343, AB 2053; enforced by the Civil Rights Department (CRD).
Within 6 months of hire or promotion; refresher every 2 years. Required for all CA employers with 5 or more employees.
Safety training for the maintenance shop, tool room, and repair bay attached to almost every general-industry facility. Covers machine guarding on grinders, drill presses, band saws, and welders, hot-work and welding fume control, oxygen and acetylene cylinder storage, used-oil and solvent handling, fire prevention, lockout before maintenance, and housekeeping standards that keep the shop audit-ready.
Title 8 §3203 (IIPP); §4002 (machine guarding); §3314 (LOTO); §3441 (general operations)
Initial at assignment; annual refresher is recommended.
Flagger and traffic-control training for utility and municipal crews and for facility operations that periodically work on or near public roads — emergency repairs, large equipment moves, after-hours deliveries. Covers work-zone setup, taper and buffer distances, sign and cone placement, high-visibility apparel, hand-signaling, and the California MUTCD requirements.
Title 8 §1598; California MUTCD; ATSSA flagger curriculum.
Initial before exposure to live traffic; ATSSA flagger certification recommended every 2 years.
SB 553 training tied to the facility’s written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan — public-facing operations, retail and customer-service interactions, parking lot and after-hours exposure, internal conflict and supervisor-worker disputes, and isolated work in production or warehousing. Covers the four types of workplace violence, the Violent Incident Log, hazard reporting, de-escalation basics, and incident response.
California Labor Code §6401.9 (SB 553) — effective July 1, 2024. Cal/OSHA general-industry WVPP regulation expected by December 31, 2026. Note: Title 8 §3342 is the separate healthcare WVPP standard.
nitial when the WVPP is implemented, and annually thereafter; additional training when new hazards are identified or the plan changes.
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