This training addresses the federal OSHA “Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens” standard (29 CFR 1910.1030) which prescribes safeguards to protect workers against the health hazards from exposure to blood and OPIM (other potentially infectious materials) and to reduce their risk from this exposure. 

For all employees who have the potential to be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material as a result of performing their job duties.

• Handouts

Approximately 1.5 hours in length

This program provides a detailed analysis on how to review Certificates of Insurance received from Member service providers. A review of the award winning Certificate of Insurance: What You Should Know booklet will improve participant skills in reviewing certificates to determine if a service provider is meeting the contractual insurance requirements. The participant will be able to review certificates with confidence after completing this program.

• For anyone who reviews contracts and/or Certificates of Insurance
• Handouts

Approximately 1.5 hours in length

Covers defensive driving techniques that will help operators anticipate and respond to potential driving situations, both on the road and at the work site.

• For Public Work Employees (Heavy Vehicles)
• Workbook/Video Format – Workbook from National Safety Council (NSC), will be billed to the member at a purchase price of $1.65 each

Approximately 3.5 hours in length

This training session goes through various case scenarios. The purpose of the training is to teach and reinforce the importance of working safely in confined spaces in order to prevent tragic accidents. The intention is to learn from the accident and take steps to prevent a similar accident from changing our lives.

• For all employees, supervisors and firefighters who work in and around confined spaces
• Handouts

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

Plagued by managing contractors, sub-contractors and third-party exposures from all sides? Failure to properly protect your entity’s exposure from third parties can cost millions of dollars. Transferring or accepting risk under construction contracts, leases and other business agreements requires sound understanding of many technical issues. This program will address forms of indemnity agreements, certificates of insurance, limits of coverage, pertinent insurance issues, including additional insured’s, waivers of subrogation and cross liability. Bring your contract and lease risk transfer issues for discussion.

• For employees who deal with contractors, sub-contractors and third-party exposures.
• Handouts

Approximately 1.5 hours in length.

Core 4 Program, Part I & Part II
IRMA’s Core 4 Program is an essential training for all members. The focus is on the four basic principles for managing liability and personnel risk within your organization – Accident Investigation, Root Cause Analysis, Accident Review Boards and Executive Safety Committees. These trainings include course instruction, fillable forms and templates, policy samples, and hands-on learning with case studies to practice the concepts. Build your risk management program and learn new ways to make an impact on reducing your losses.
 
Core 4, Part I: Accident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
This presentation will cover the essentials of how to conduct an accident investigation and determine a root cause of why the accident occurred.  Content includes required reporting, keys to gathering information as an investigator, and how to properly complete and submit documents for review and follow up.  Two root cause analysis techniques will be taught as well as the Deming Principle as a method to ensure corrective actions are completed and followed through. Includes course material thumb drive with all handouts and templates.
  Course Length:  1.5 hours in length
 
Intended Audience: Supervisors responsible for investigating, documenting, and reporting employee injuries, property damage, or non-employee incidents to their employer.
 
Core 4, Part I is a prerequisite and should be completed within 90 days prior to Core 4, Part II
 
 
Core 4, Part II: Accident Review Boards & Executive Safety Committees
This presentation will cover the essentials of the next steps after a supervisor completes an accident investigation and determines a root cause of why the accident occurred.  Content includes defining accident review boards and their function as well as how a safety committee should be structured.    Two root cause analysis techniques will be taught as well as the Deming Principle as a method to ensure corrective actions are completed and followed through. Includes course material thumb drive with all handouts and templates.
  Course Length:  1.5 hours in length
 
Intended Audience: Supervisors and Department heads responsible for overseeing their department and executive level safety committees.
 
Core 4, Part II should be completed within 90 days after successfully completing Core 4, Part I
 

This presentation covers common exposures any employee could face while working outdoors during the summer months. From public works and parks and recreation to public safety, employees are subject to increased risk due to summer hazards. Topics include course instruction on physical stressors, heat related illnesses, severe weather conditions, insect-born illnesses, poisonous plants, safe driving and work site safety, as well as practical solutions to managing these risks. This training includes policy samples, infographics and hands-on learning with case studies to practice the concepts.
  Course Length: 1.5 hours in length

Intended Audience: Any employee working outdoors during the summer months.

OSHA requires employees facing a higher than normal risk of electrical accident to receive Electrical Safety Training.  29 CFR 1910.331 - 1910.335 defines Safety Related Work Practices for both qualified and unqualified workers.  This program covers safety-related Work Practices including understanding and recognizing energized and deenergized parts, lockout and tagging, and minimum approach distances.  The regulations for handling, inspecting and utilizing electrical equipment will also be covered.

• For Supervisors, Material Handling Equipment Operators, Mechanics and Repairers
• Handouts/Video

Approximately 2.5 hours in length

This training educates on the use of fall protection anchorages, body support, connectors, descent and rescue.  The training also covers fall protection equipment inspection requirements and how to calculate the required clearances.  The instructor will provide guidance on proper equipment selection and effectiveness with participants that bring their personal fall protection equipment to the class.

Training Site Must Provide:

• Employee-assigned personal fall protection equipment
• General use personal fall protection equipment provided at the work site

Intended Audience:
Employees working at elevations, exposed to fall hazards, or working in areas where fall hazards may exist.

Approximately 3.0 hours in length.

This training provides National Safety Council Flagger Certification to those assigned to provide safe passage of traffic through and around work areas.   Participants will receive flagger certification cards upon successful completion of classroom education, a quiz, and practical evaluations; demonstrating understanding of flagging techniques.

Training Site Must Provide:  

• A 15’ x 30’ open space to conduct practical evaluations away from regular daily operations; 20 orange cones (minimum of 18” in height)
• 2 stop paddles 18-24” in size and 6-7’ high
• 1 red emergency stop flag 24” x 24” with a 36” handle

Workbooks from National Safety Council (IRMA will coordinate purchase of books and bill member at a purchase prices of $17.00 each) 

Intended Audience:
Employees assigned to perform flagger responsibilities in a work zone.
 

4 hours in length; maximum 12 employees.

This training is designed to assist forklift operators in understanding the key principles of forklift safety, how to prevent accidents, and safe forklift operating procedures.  The training includes 2 hours of classroom training, a quiz, and a practical evaluation (behind the wheel) for each forklift operator.

Training Site Must Provide:

• An open space to conduct operator practical evaluations away from regular daily operations
• A fully operable forklift inspected prior to training
• Material to be lifted and moved by forklift operators during the practical evaluation

Intended Audience:
Employees assigned to operate forklifts
 

Minimum 4.0 hrs. in length for up to 6-8 employees. 

Maximum of 12 employees for 8.0 hours.

This train-the-trainer style program is designed to educate your employees that operate the most common types of carts and utility vehicles while also instructing supervisors how to conduct utility vehicle safety training on their own.  The training will educate employees how to operate a utility vehicle in a variety of scenarios through classroom and hands-on evaluations .  Supervisors attending will learn how to facilitate training and conduct evaluations by the end of the course.

Training Site Must Provide:

• A 50’ x 100’ open space to conduct operator practical evaluations away from regular daily operations
• A fully operable cart or utility vehicle inspected prior to training
• For employees and volunteers who operate a member golf cart/utility vehicle
• 20 cones to set up an obstacle course

Intended Audience:
Employees assigned to operate carts or utility vehicles; Supervisors responsible for overseeing safe operation of cart or utility vehicle use.

Approximately 2.0 hours in length (class limited to 6-8 employees)

Harassment charges can devastate an organization, as well as its employees. What’s important is how a behavior makes another person feel. A harassment-free workplace can be created by informing all employees of their legal and ethical responsibilities. Learn how to recognize harassment and what you can do to stop it. 

• For all employees
• Handouts/ Case Study

Approximately 1.5 hours in length 
Class Size Requirement:  15 person minimum

This training covers the requirements of OSHA's Hearing Conservation Program - 29 CFR 1910.95, including:  Noise Survey, Annual Hearing Testing, Annual Employee Education/Training, Hearing Protection, and Recordkeeping.  Gain experience for setting up a hearing conservation program and implement a planned, coordinated course of action to prevent hearing loss.

• For Supervisors
• Handouts

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

This program focuses on the safe use of step ladders and extension ladders. You will learn to recognize fall hazards associated with ladder use, determine the proper ladder to use based on weight capacity and height, calculate the proper pitch of extension ladders for proper set-up, and identify how to secure and stabilize ladders. The importance of establishing a ladder inspection program will be emphasized.

• For Maintenance/Public Works employees
• Handouts

Approximately 1.5 to 2.0 hrs. in length

This training provides education for both the affected and the authorized employee.  The training will educate participants how the risks of working on energized equipment and the lockout/tagout requirements necessary to safely de-energize equipment.  Employees who are trained and authorized to perform service or maintenance on machinery
will participate in a practical evaluation if equipment is made available.

Training Site Must Provide:

• A piece of equipment capable of being locked out with corresponding shut-down procedures must be available to complete the hands-on practical evaluation.  

Intended Audience:
Qualified and authorized users of the Lockout/Tag-out Program; Affected employees exposed to Lock-out/Tag-out operations

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

Covers arranging the workplace, placing of equipment and materials in optimal positions, raising and lowering work surfaces and practicing good lifting habits.  Will help employees understand the mechanics of the body in order to avoid unnecessary stresses, strains and prevent Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD’s).

• For All Office, clerical and other administrative employees
• Handouts/Video
• Hands-on inspection of one work space (optional)

Approximately 1.5 - 2.0 hours in length

Do you inspect your playgrounds according to a pre-determined schedule? When a hazard is identified, do you take the appropriate steps to eliminate the hazard? Have you provided training to personnel who are responsible for inspecting and maintaining your playgrounds? This program offers seven steps to a comprehensive playground safety program, provides you with a monthly safety inspection checklist and a handbook for public playground safety. 

• For employees who oversee the inspection and maintenance of their playgrounds
• Handouts/Video
• Hands-on inspection of one to three playgrounds (optional)

Approximately 3.0 - 3.5 hours in length and consists of classroom and hands-on inspections of one to three playgrounds

(Note: Available in the evenings for public officials at their convenience)

This program is designed for elected and appointed officials. It provides information on their exposure to liability for actions taken as elected or appointed officials. It also provides a description of the IRMA liability coverage that protects them as for their acts as public officials.

• For elected and appointed officials
• Handouts

Approximately 30-minutes in length

This training covers:

• Why respirators may be necessary
• Steps to be taken prior to wearing a respirator
• How to put on, use, maintain, and store a respirator; and
• The limitations and capabilities of various types of respirators 

A written policy must be in place before scheduling this training.

• For all employees who either use or may have to use a respirator in the course of their job duties.
• Handouts

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

This training is intended to reduce the frequency of accidents and near misses when towing a trailer. It will teach your employees how they and everyone else on the road can stay safe when towing a trailer. This program consists of classroom and hands-on training elements that address the concepts of safe vehicle driving with a trailer. The entity must be able to provide a 50’ x 100’ open space to conduct the hands-on training.

• Employees who operate an entity vehicle with a trailer can benefit from this program
• Handouts
• Hands-on evaluation of vehicle backing skills with a trailer
• Maximum of 10 employees for hands-on evaluation

Approximately 3.0 hours in length.

Covers how to operate and effective self-inspection program including, how to develop a self-inspection checklist, the immediate and basic causes of accidents, how to conduct your own inspections and applicable regulatory regulations.

• For Safety Committee Members/Individuals responsible for Facility Inspections
• Handouts/Video
• Mock OSHA/IDOL Inspection to reinforce the classroom training (optional)

Approximately 1.5 - 2.0 hours in length (Varies with program(s) selected)

Public entities are required to comply with OSHA’s standards for the control of silica dust when there is risk of exposure in the workplace. Member’s employees who cut or abrasive blast into materials that produce silica dust (such as concrete, tile, or, asphalt) may be at risk of exposure to this damaging dust. This program reviews the risks associated with exposure to silica dust, OSHA’s compliance standards, exposure control methods, and recordkeeping practices necessary to have a completely developed silica protection program.
 

Course Length: 2 hours
 
Intended Audience:  Public Works Directors, Supervisors responsible for overseeing workers exposed to silica dust, and any worker that have risk of exposure to silica dust.

This program is designed to teach snow plow operators how to control factors which can affect their health and safety. Participants will examine factors that lead to injuries and discuss ways to prevent them. This program is not intended to instruct operators how to plow.

• For all employees who operate a snow plow.
• Handouts

Approximately 1.5 hours in length.

The supervisor is the link between Management and Employees. This program will cover the supervisor’s role, benefits of safety, risk management principles, prevention of employee injuries, hazard identification, supervising safety concepts, hidden costs, OSHA, major loss types and accident investigation. 

• For employees who manage staff below them
• Handouts

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

This training session presents a case study of an actual accident inspected and documented by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The purpose of this training session is to teach and reinforce the importance of working safely in trenches in order to prevent tragic accidents. In particular, it deals with how to identify conditions that could lead to a trench collapse. The intention is to learn from the accident and take steps to prevent a similar accident from changing our lives.

• For workers and supervisors who work in and around trenches
• Handouts

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

This train-the-trainer style program is designed to educate your employees  that operate large vehicles (and trailers) in reverse while also instructing supervisors how to conduct vehicle safety training on their own. The program will educate employees through classroom and hands-on evaluations how to safely operate their vehicles and trailers while in reverse.   Supervisors attending will learn how to facilitate training and conduct evaluations by the end of the course.

Training Site Must Provide:

• A 50’ x 100’ open space to conduct operator practical evaluations away from regular daily operations
• 20 orange cones (minimum of 18” in height)
• A vehicle to drive

Intended Audience:
Employees assigned to drive vehicles and trailers; Supervisors responsible for overseeing safe operation of vehicles and trailers.

Length of Course

Approximately 2.0 hours in length

This program focuses directly on the hazards and situations that workers may face when conducting an activity on or near the roadway. Participants will learn the importance of effective work zone traffic control to wearing the proper equipment.

• For Maintenance/Public Work employees.
• Handouts/Video

Approximately 2.0 hours in length