Training Courses
OSHA Compliance & Safety Training
Asbestos | HAZWOPER | OSHA Training Courses
Point Blue provides compliance and safety training at our Kalamazoo training center with some courses available through virtual sessions. Training courses include Asbestos, HAZWOPER, and OSHA classes. A course summary is provided below, along with an on-line registration tool to make sure you get your seat in the next training course. Many of these courses can be performed at your facility if there are several employees from your company that require training.
Brad Shook, one of the Midwest's leading instructors, leads the Point Blue training center with over 30 years of industry experience. Brad is a well-respected instructor with significant and relevant professional experience that he shares with his class participants to relate to each training session. Brad is an approved Asbestos Instructor with the State of Michigan.
Training courses are listed below. Point Blue also creates client-specific training. Contact us to learn more.
Asbestos Training
Asbestos Awareness (2-Hour): All employees that might come into contact or disturb asbestos containing materials (ACM) must have awareness training annually. The initial training must be 2 hours in duration and cover the types of ACMs, health effects, state and federal regulations, and specific locations of installed asbestos in the facility. (Virtual Zoom session only)
Asbestos Contractor Supervisor Initial (40-Hour): This is a course for asbestos abatement contractors and supervisors to allow removal of regulated quantities of friable ACM. Each abatement project must have a 40-hour contractor/supervisor responsible for overall removal activities on the job site. (We are not currently scheduling this course. Check back periodically or contact Point Blue to inquire.)
Asbestos Contractor Supervisor Refresher (8-Hour): An 8-hour refresher is required to maintain the MIOSHA contractor/supervisor license. (Virtual Zoom session only)
Asbestos Inspector Initial (24-Hour): The course is required for anyone performing an asbestos building inspection to comply with EPA, OSHA or MIOSHA regulations. (We are not currently scheduling this course. Check back periodically or contact Point Blue to inquire.)
Asbestos Inspector Refresher (4-Hour): A 4-hour refresher is required to maintain the MIOSHA asbestos inspector license. (Virtual Zoom session only)
Operations & Maintenance Initial (16-Hour): The training allows employees to repair damaged ACM, clean-up ACM debris, or perform small quantity removal of materials.
Operations & Maintenance Refresher (4-Hour): A 4-hour refresher is required to maintain the asbestos O&M certification.
Asbestos Task Specific (8-Hour): Non-friable ACM can be removed by individuals with training that covers specific materials and acceptable methods for removal and extensive hands-on components.
HAZWOPER Training
HAZWOPER Initial (40-Hour): Employees participating in clean-up activities of uncontrolled hazardous materials are required to have this training. The course covers regulatory standards, health effects of hazardous materials, identification of unknown materials, personal protective equipment, control methods used in clean-up operations, victim rescue, written site plans and emergency actions.
HAZWOPER Refresher (8-Hour): The 8-hour refresher is required to maintain certification for both 40-hour HAZWOPER and 24-hour HAZMAT.
HAZWOPER Supervisor (8-Hour): Designed for individuals with 40-hour HAZWOPER training wishing to expand their skills. The supervisor course gives the individual the authority to write the site plan and supervise response operations.
HAZMAT (24-Hour): For individuals that are responsible for spill response at a facility containing hazardous materials. The course includes regulatory standards, health effects of hazardous materials, identification of unknown materials, personal protective equipment, control methods used in clean-up operations, victim rescue, written site plans and emergency actions.
Hazardous Materials Technician (24-Hour): This course is for workers that are on-site occasionally for a specific limited task (e.g. groundwater monitoring, land surveying, geophysical surveying) and who are unlikely to be exposed over permissible exposure limits and published exposure limits. These workers shall receive a minimum of 24 hours of instruction off the site, and the minimum of one day actual field experience under the direct supervision of a trained, experienced supervisor.
HAZWOPER First Responder Awareness (4-Hour): Training includes identification of the materials using DOT and NIOSH guidance documents and appropriate immediate actions in an emergency to protect people and property.
HAZWOPER Operations Level (8-Hour): For individuals responsible for directing and supervising clean-up activities of trained HAZMAT crews.
OSHA Training
10-Hour OSHA Outreach - Construction: This class is intended to provide workers with awareness of common job-related safety and health hazards. (We are not currently scheduling this course. Check back periodically or contact Point Blue to inquire.)
30-Hour OSHA Outreach - Construction: The 30-hour class is appropriate for supervisors or workers with some safety responsibility. (We are not currently scheduling this course. Check back periodically or contact Point Blue to inquire.)
Bloodborne Pathogens: Employers must provide training for employees that are expected to have an occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Confined Space Training: The training includes definitions of confined spaces, permit required confined spaces, roles of entrants, supervisors and attendants.
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lock-Out-Tag-Out): A requirement for maintenance employees working on equipment that may be exposed to hazardous energy sources.
Cranes and Rigging: OSHA requires employers to provide rigging training to their employees as stated in Subpart H.
Electrical Safety: OSHA requires employers to provide electrical safety training to their employees as stated in Subpart K Electrical.
Excavation Safety: OSHA requires employers to provide excavation training to their employees as stated in Subpart P Excavations.
Fall Protection (Construction): OSHA requires employers to provide this training to their employees as stated in Subpart M Fall Protection.
Hand and Power Tool Safety: OSHA requires employers to provide this training to their employees as stated in Subpart I Tools-Hand and Power.
Hazard Communication (Global Harmonization Standard): This class complies with the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1200.
Laboratory Safety: The course includes chemical hygiene officer, safety personnel, laboratory policies, standard operating procedures, particularly hazardous substances, master list of required training, hazardous chemical list/safety data sheets, chemical storage, exposure monitoring, records, emergency action plan, medical emergency, spill response, fire, laboratory design and ventilation and chemical waste disposal.
Lead and Cadmium Awareness: All employees that may be exposed to lead or cadmium in the workplace must have annual awareness training.
Powered Industrial Truck/Forklift: Employees operating powered industrial trucks such as forklifts are required to be trained and licensed by their employer every 3 years.
Respiratory Protection and Fit Testing: Employees required to wear respiratory protection are to be trained annually. Fit testing will be conducted if the employees have a current medical evaluation confirming ability to wear a respirator.
Scaffolding: OSHA requires employers to provide scaffold training to their employees as stated in Subpart L Scaffolding.
Stairways and Ladders: OSHA requires employers to provide ladder training to their employees as stated in Subpart X Stairways and Ladders.
Walking, Working Surfaces (Fall Protection for General Industry): Employers are required by OSHA in Subpart D to train their employees in fall hazards.
Welding and Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety: OSHA requires employers to provide training to their employees as stated in Subpart J Welding and Cutting.
*Please note that many of the above courses require written programs as well as training. Point Blue, LLC can generate the written programs required for your Corporate Safety Manual or train from your existing programs.