Occupational Safety and Health Inspection Techniques


This two-day course introduces federal agency personnel to the most commonly used workplace safety inspection techniques, procedures and standards. Special emphasis is placed on creating checklists and reports. A simplified approach to the goals and outcomes of safety inspections enables participants to accurately plan and prepare for OSHA workplace inspections.

The course highlight is a mock safety inspection of a federal facility.

Note: this is not an OSHA Training Institute Course.

Topics Include:

  • Planning and Preparing
  • First Things First: Establishing Priorities
  • Where to Start: Inspection Systems
  • Inspection of Emergency Equipment and Plans
  • Machine Lockout/Tagout
  • Checklists
  • The Importance of Reports

Students take home:

  • A detailed work manual. After the course, it becomes a valuable reference, to help accurately plan and prepare for OSHA workplace inspections
  • Field Inspection Reference Manual (FIRM). The manual used by OSHA compliance officers for inspections.
  • Copy of the OSH Act
  • A Certificate of Completion to serve as training documentation.


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