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Safety Training

Classroom Safety Training

AGC Georgia offers a wide range of safety-focused training throughout the year, open to both members and nonmembers. Many courses are also available in a hybrid format. This means a live instructor teaches in person while remote participants join the session and actively participate in the discussion through Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

Courses cover both basic and advanced topics and are led by experienced instructors, all focused on improving jobsite safety and protecting your workforce. To better serve Georgia’s diverse construction community, several classes are also available in Spanish.

Most sessions are held at AGC Georgia’s training center in Atlanta, however, classes can be offered across the state based on demand. If there is interest in a specific topic, we will coordinate a local class. Private, company-specific training can also be arranged upon request.

For questions about all aspects of AGC Georgia’s training opportunities, please contact Cindy Parham, Director of Safety & Education Services at 678.298.4112 or parham@agcga.org.

Safety training topics include some of the following:

  • OSHA Subpart CC - Crane Standard

  • Scaffold Safety - Competent Person Training

  • Fall Protection - Competent Person Training

  • Steel Erection - Competent Person Training

  • OSHA 10 and 30 Hour for Construction

  • First Aid/CPR

  • Trenching & Excavation - Competent Person Training

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Individuals enrolled in the Young Leadership Program receive a 10% discount on most classroom training and member firms participating in the AGC Georgia’s worker’s compensation program, CompTrust AGC MCIC, can send their employees to most safety classes at no charge. (see below)

AGC of America offers two, three-day safety training programs, one teaching basic skills needed to manage a safety management program and the other providing a more advanced training experience. Learn more at agc.org.

Sampling of Safety Training Topics

  • Fall Protection - Competent Person Training

  • First Aid/CPR/Bloodborne Pathogens/Narcan Training

  • OSHA Subpart CC - Crane Standard

  • OSHA 10 and 30 Hour for Construction

  • Scaffold Safety - Competent Person Training

  • Steel Erection - Competent Person Training

  • Trenching & Excavation - Competent Person Training

To view a full list of all courses and programs, please visit our calendar.

View Calendar for safety classes with course descriptions, flyers and fee information.

Classroom Safety Training

Both AGC Georgia members and non-members can take advantage of the many safety training opportunities offered in a classroom setting throughout the year covering both basic and more advanced safety, health and environmental topics. Each of these classes, taught by experienced and qualified instructors, are designed to help make your jobsites safer and ensure the safety and well-being of your workforce.

While the majority of classes are held at AGC Georgia’s training facility in Atlanta, safety courses are offered around the state. When sufficient demand exists within a region for a specific safety topic, AGC Georgia will organize a local class. Also, in response to a member request, we often arrange to have safety training delivered to a company’s office exclusively for their employees. For assistance with private classes, please contact Cindy Parham at 678.298.4112 or parham@agcga.org.

Safety training topics include some of the following:

  • OSHA Subpart CC-Crane Standard

  • EPA Lead Certified Renovator

  • Scaffold Safety

  • Silica

  • Fall Protection

  • Steel Erection

  • OSHA 10 and 30 Hour

  • First Aid/CPR

  • Competent Person: Trenching & Excavation

Online Safety Training

For 24/7 access to core safety training topics, AGC Georgia collaborates with ClickSafety.com. The site has 300+ online construction, environmental and general industry safety courses. Many of these are available in English and Spanish.

By visiting ClickSafety, AGC Georgia members are eligible to save 10% off the retail price of any course.

ClickSafety is an IACET Authorized provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) so you can earn Contact Hours or CEUs once a course is completed.

**Note:  You must create a username and password specific to the ClickSafety website. This username is not tied to the AGC Georgia or AGC of America website.

Questions?

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Online Training provided by ClickSafety

  • 10- and 30- Hour OSHA Outreach Training

  • EM-385-1-1

  • Safety and Health Fundamentals

  • Personal Protective Equipment

  • Slips, Trips and Falls

  • Electrocution

  • Fall Protection

  • Ergonomics

  • Back Injury Prevention and Safe Lifting Techniques

  • Mold in Construction

  • DOT Courses

AGC Georgia members have the option to create a Corporate Account with ClickSafety in order to receive these benefits:

  • Quality discounts

  • Assign users training directly from the website

  • Reporting

  • Accountability—tracking progress

Complimentary Training for CompTrust AGC MCIC Members

AGC Georgia member firms that hold a workers compensation policy with CompTrust AGC MCIC have access to free training designed to create safer jobsites, reduce injury risks, and help lower insurance premiums. While the OSHA 10 and 30-Hour Courses are held in-person and virtually through the calendar year on a regular cadence, the others are available by request. There’s no limit to how many of your company representatives you can train in the following courses at no charge. Please connect with Cindy Parham, Director of Education & Safety Services at parham@agcga.org for more information. 

Employers have a duty to provide fall protection when employees are at risk of falling 6 feet or more. At least one Fall Protection Competent Person per trade should be identified on a project if their workers are exposed to fall hazards. This course will provide participants training and knowledge of OSHA’s Subpart M in identifying fall hazards and how to eliminate the risks of falls.

Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$295

for AGC Georgia member firms

$590

for non-AGC Georgia member firms

OSHA requires a contractor to have a competent person on-site to qualify for Focused Inspection. This safety course is designed to help contractors develop safety and health competent persons for their job sites. The competent person will learn to recognize potential hazards in construction before an incident occurs. Individuals will also be able to identify and implement abatement techniques for hazards found on job sites. 

Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$350

for AGC Georgia member firms

$700

for non-AGC Georgia member firms

Many owners and prime contractors require completion of this course prior to working on certain projects. Through live instruction by seasoned construction professionals, participants will learn how to recognize construction hazards, avoidance, control, and prevention. Core learning objectives include 1) Introduction to OSHA; 2) Managing Safety & Health; 3) OSHA Focused Four Hazards; 4) Other Industry Specific Topics, including cranes, scaffolds, material handling and concrete/masonry.  Upon successful completion, attendees receive an OSHA 30-Hour Construction Outreach card. The card is issued by the Georgia Tech Outreach Training Institute and is typically available 3-4 weeks after the course concludes. 

Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$515

for AGC Georgia member firms

$1030

for non-AGC Georgia member firms
This course meets the requirements of OSHA’s Subpart CC-Cranes in Construction regulations. In one day, we cover both Qualified Signal Person requirements and Basic Level 1 Qualified Rigger requirements. Many companies currently require documentation of a Qualified Signal Person and Qualified Rigger before allowing you to work on their sites. Attendees will review standard ANSI hand and voice signals along with basic hitches, capacity calculations and inspection requirements for rigging equipment. Students are required to pass a written and practical exam as required by OSHA.
Who Should Attend? Supervisors & personnel who work with or around cranes; All personnel who signal cranes (Mobile & Tower); All personnel who rig loads on cranes; General contractors who own, rent or oversee mobile or tower cranes on their jobsites; and Employers who own or rent mobile or tower cranes.
Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$295

for AGC Georgia member firms

$590

for non-AGC Georgia member firms

OSHA requires a competent person to supervise when a scaffold is “erected, moved, dismantled, or altered,” 1926.451 (a)(4). Participants in this course will be provided the necessary training to be considered a “competent person” by an OSHA inspector. The instructor will also cover the most common OSHA violations related to scaffolds and how to control/eliminate accidents and injuries associated with scaffolds.

Topics covered include: footings and foundations, inspection of equipment, tying scaffolding to a building, platforms and planking, fall protection, ladders and stairways, systems scaffold.
Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$295

for AGC Georgia member firms

$590

for non-AGC Georgia member firms
Exposure to respirable crystalline silica can cause silicosis, lung cancer, other respiratory diseases and kidney disease. About two million construction workers are exposed in over 600,000 workplaces. OSHA estimates more than 840,000 workers are exposed to silica levels that exceed the new permissible exposure limit. Workers and contractors need to recognize the hazard, understand the risk factors and work safety silica. The rule mandates all construction employers covered by the standard to have a written exposure control plan that designates a competent person. This course provides supervisors, managers and safety professionals the knowledge and tools to comply with the silica standard for construction. Attendees also receive information needed to serve as silica competent persons in order to implement the written exposure control plan required by the standard.
Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$149

for AGC Georgia member firms

$229

for non-AGC Georgia member firms
This course will offer training in procedures required in the Steel Erection Standard – Subpart R. This course is for those who are in any position of authority relating to any type of structural steel erection, including everyone from the crafts trade to project managers and construction company owners, and to any other on-site personnel. This is an intensive one-day, 8-hour seminar designed to assist contractors, engineers and architects, and other safety personnel in understanding and complying with the Steel Erection Standard.
Topics include: introduction, objectives, scope, definitions, layout, erection, and sequence, hoisting and rigging, column anchorage, beams & columns, open web steel joists, systems-engineered metal buildings, falling objects, fall protection, appendices.
Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$295

for AGC Georgia member firms

$590

for non-AGC Georgia member firms
If you dig, or if your project has a four-foot or deeper foundation, basement, or excavation work, then you should attend this informative course. This course educates individuals on the proper procedures for before, during, and after trenching and excavation, while meeting OSHA’s requirements for a “competent person.”
The State Licensing Board approves this course for Utility Contractors.
Complimentary for CompTrust Members

$295

for AGC Georgia member firms

$590

for non-AGC Georgia member firms