About This Course: Working with OSHA as a Manager

This course is for managers, health, safety and environment (HSE) managers and business owners whose workplaces in the United States fall under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It is about the relationship between your organization and the agency: how its rules are made and read, how an inspection runs, what happens after one, how to respond to a citation, and how to work with OSHA through its cooperative programs.

The level is intermediate. You are expected to apply the rules, choose between options and handle situations that go wrong, not only to recognize terms. Module 1 is a short recap of the OSH Act system; if it is new to you, take the OSHA General Industry Safety Awareness (29 CFR 1910) course first.

What this course leaves to other courses

Injury and illness records are taught in the OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping course. The technical general industry standards are in the OSHA General Industry Safety Awareness (29 CFR 1910) course, and construction rules in the OSHA Construction Safety Awareness (29 CFR 1926) course. This course mentions those subjects only where an inspection or a citation touches them.

The examples use invented companies: Quorvale Logistics (warehouses), Brenlow Engineering (fabrication), Sarnet Process Services (a maintenance contractor) and Varnoth Energy (an operator). Any figures in the examples are invented for practice unless a source is named.