Are you being required by a General Contractor, Insurance Carrier, State or Federal Contract or any other reason to have your employees OSHA 10 Certified?

You see most people don't realize that OSHA does't actually mandate anyone to have the OSHA 10 in Construction Certification. In fact a lot of companies leave themselves open to great RISK. If the only OSHA Training you are doing is the one time OSHA 10 for your employees, you do not meet the OSHA minimum training requirements. You see the mandate to have the OSHA 10 certification comes from a few places. One is from General Contractors & Insurance companies.

In the eyes of an insurance carrier, if your employees have OSHA 10 training than in theory you should be less RISK. The less Risk you bring to the table, the better looking you are to the insurance carriers.

In the eyes of the General Contractor, they have the right to enforce any safety standards that they see fit in addition to the OSHA minimum requirements. This means in theory that their job site should be safer, therefore they look better in the eyes of their insurance carrier and their client. Also, if a Sub-Contractor is fined by OSHA on a job site, the GC could also be fined under the multi-employer policy. The GC has overall responsibility for the job site, therefore may also be held liable.

One of the other drying forces actually come down from the tops in Washington. Part of that stimulus money that went out to help the construction industry by creating roadwork, power distribution & transmission, bridge repair & construction, new schools, hospitals..etc. Basically if a project is "publicly funded" by either Local, State & Federal money, than workers have to have the OSHA 10 certification.

So my last thought is that if you do not have a annual training program in place at your place of employment and only rely on the OSHA 10, than you are leaving yourself to SO MANY potential exposures. Contact us today to learn how to mitigate & eliminate your RISK!

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