When to Train
Initial training: Employees must be trained before they begin tasks that could expose them to fall hazards or before they use fall-protection systems.
Retraining: Employees must be retrained when you have reason to believe they don't recognize fall hazards, when they don't follow safe practices for using fall-protection systems, and when changes at the construction worksite or in the fall-protection systems used make their previous training obsolete.
Certification
OSHA expects safety training that includes potentially hazardous procedures and practices to include hands-on practice, demonstration, and evaluation to ensure the employee has gained adequate knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) and is qualified to use the fall protection equipment and complete tasks in the work environment.
Before the employer can certify an employee as "fully qualified," the employee should be evaluated as follows:
- Initial qualification: To be initially qualified, the employee must be evaluated by the trainer for adequate KSAs in the learning environment; and
- Full qualification: To be fully qualified, the employee must be evaluated by a competent person for adequate KSAs in the work environment.
The employer should develop a written certification record to document any training that requires employees to know and use procedures and practices for dangerous tasks. See sample certification record.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
7-4. Since fall protection training includes potentially hazardous procedures and practices, OSHA expects it to include _____.
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