OSHA Training
This training webpage is USC Upstate’s new primary means of employee safety training. This campus-wide resource is intended for use by all USC Upstate employees to facilitate and promote safety, health and environmental management.
USC Upstate uses two primary methods of training employees to meet the OSHA requirements- online training and face-to-face seminar type training. The online training can be accessed at any time from any computer on campus or off campus. The face-to-face seminar training will be offered at least twice per year and the calendar of training will be published in advance.
The OSHA trainings that are required for employees at USC Upstate are categorized by occupational designations, e.g. faculty, administrators and administrative assistants is one category of occupational designation. Each employee should determine which occupational category is the best fit for their occupation, select the link for that occupational category, and complete all of the training required for the category. Online safety training for each occupational category consists of three sections: Online Training, Self-Paced Training, and Audio Enhanced Training. You must follow the instructions listed above each section to correctly document the completion of each safety component. To ensure adequate competency, a short quiz is included at the end of each training component. Each year, once all required trainings are completed with quiz scores of 80% or higher, you will receive a certificate documenting your achievment (example).
Why Should I Participate?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) believes that training is an essential part of every employer’s safety and health program for protecting workers from injuries and illnesses. That’s why OSHA training standards require employers to instruct employees in the safety and health aspects of their jobs. Other OSHA training standards make it employers’ responsibility to limit certain job assignments to only those employees who are “certified,” “competent,” or “qualified”—meaning that the employees have already had appropriate training, inside or outside the workplace.
Many OSHA training standards state that employers must provide refresher training at specific intervals, and keep records of all safety and health training they have provided. Records can provide evidence of the employer’s good faith and compliance with OSHA standards. Documentation allows companies to be able to assure OSHA accident investigators that they had, indeed, provided the proper safety training to employees who were injured on the job. For a record of all trainings previously documented, please contact Jeanette Reeves at ext. 5990 or jreeves@uscupstate.edu.
*NOTE: The following online safety training is general information to cover all employees of USC Upstate. For more detailed safety information pertaining to your specific position and duties, contact your department head or Mike Bruce at ext. 5905 / mbruce@uscupstate.edu.
For help with this site, please contact Jeanette Reeves (jreeves@uscupstate.edu).
This webpage is a work in progress. Please send us your comments and feedback so this new safety training system can continue to improve!
Instructions:
- Click on the category below corresponding to your position/department to download a PDF document
- Using your computer's internet connection, click on the safety training components per the instructions at the top of the document
- Print the PDF document to check off components as you complete the safety training - *Note: the quizzes will automatically be sent to the training department.
- Send only the completed, printed document via campus mail to Jeanette Reeves in the Rampey Center
*All administrative personnel, please click on "Faculty, Administrators, Assistants/Clerical"
*Training is up-to-date as of 06/2009
(Note: In order to view PDF files, Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on your computer. This program is FREE and can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.)
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