Safety: Safety Training, Services & Benefits

The AGC of Michigan offers a comprehensive program of safety services designed to help its members strengthen their programs to improve safety, reduce risk and avoid costs.  Some of the members services include:

• Safety assessments of your facilities and field operations
• Consultations concerning MIOSHA issues
• Interventions with MIOSHA
• Company specific training programs

Need to train your employees? Would expert safety advice on a specific project be valuable to you? Topics to consider include fall protection, scaffolding, ladders, rigging, confined spaces, excavation, right-to-know, accident investigation, on-site hazard elimination and many others.  Let AGC be your partner in customizing the right safety and health program for your company.  Contact Pete Anderson at (517) 371-1550 or Rick Mee at (313) 533-3509 Ext. 3103.

Ongoing Safety Training Program

• Construction Safety & Health Awareness Program (C.S.H.A.)
  1. Mobile on site training
  2. Advanced safety & health training
  3. Air monitoring and health survey

 

• Questions?  Contact Pete Anderson at (517) 371-1550 or by email at panderson@agcmichigan.org

Advanced ScaffoldSafety - Full Day Training

February 3, 2010 - Ann Arbor

February 4, 2010 - Lansing

Registration

When performing any scaffold operation, MIOSHA regulations mandate for a competent knowledgeable person with authority to correct unsafe procedures in a scaffold operation.  After you have attended this class, you will have the background necessary for your employer to give you authority to make safety directives which will protect your fellow workers.

Certified Lead Renovators Training

Classes will run from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the following locations:

February 23, 2010 - Lansing

March 30, 2010 - Livonia

May 4, 2010 - Livonia

EPA required, by April 22, 2010, for all contractors who work in pre-1978 housing and childoccupied facilities, including: renovation contractors, maintenance workers in multi-family housing, painters and other specialty trades.

The Certified Lead Renovator:

• must be present at each work site for Target Housing* or Child Occupied Facilities**
• must be on-site at each impacted building on a daily basis
• must be at the job-site during paint testing, sign posting, work area set-up and clean-up phases of the work.
• provide training to the non-Certified work staff that will be working on buildings affected by this regulation.

Note: Each contractor performing work that disturbs lead-based paint must have their own Certified Lead Renovator present - not just one per job site.

Additional details and a registration form are available here.

*Target Housing is a home or residential unit built on or before December 31, 1977.
**A Child Occupied Facility is any pre-1978 building or portion of a building regularly visited by children under 6 years such as; school, child care centers, head start programs facility/room, latchkey programs facility/room.