Who is the Competent Safety Training Person on your Team?
It is the responsibility of the Employer, not OSHA, to answer that question. Advanced Safety Pros delivers advanced safety training solutions to the construction industries at all angles of this question and possible answers. From our industry segment focus and jobsite specific training, to our ASPIRT delivery of the information the ultimate result is an easy investment by our Customers: a custom, written, Safety Program and/or employee(s) who have a certified knowledge of OSHA Regulations and who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees.
A competent person is generically defined as someone who, through certified training and experience, is knowledgeable of regulations, policies and laws regarding occupational health and safety and is capable of identifying hazards relating to their specific workplace and operations, and has the authority invested in him or her by their employer to correct the hazards to protect workers. In the OSHA construction standards (see 29 CFR 1926.32(f)), a Competent Person is defined as "one who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees, and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them".
There is no single OSHA construction regulation that establishes all of the specific responsibilities of a “Competent Person”. Instead, there are numerous references to a Competent Person that appears in the various OSHA Regulations and documentation. Some of the OSHA Construction Regulations (OSHA fall-protection, scaffolding, excavation & shoring or shielding) list some specific requirements for a variety of topics, such as safety meetings or hazard assessment, to be performed by the “Competent Person”, while other construction standards only make a passing reference to the Competent Person. The Competent Person is also referred to in several final OSHA rules, OSHA Interpretation Rulings, or OSHA directives.
Safety Account Managers: Using our hands-on, ASPIRT system, Advanced Safety Pros offers Competent Person Certification for the Employers and training in all aspects of Construction Industry Safety Training requiring OSHA training and/or certification. Our Customers will benefit from having one, professional service provider to manage ALL of their Safety Training & related concerns and requirements. Our Safety Managers are assigned to a specific Customer and effectively address any/all safety related questions, concerns or needs to the continued satisfaction of that Customer and the ever-improving relationship between our firms! Your Safety Account Manager is a Construction Professional, supported by the intensity of Advanced Safety Pros and the most sophisticated technologies all for your compliance and peace-of-mind!
After achieving his contractor's license in 1979 as the youngest Engineering Contractor in the state of California, Cliff Wilcox established Wilcox Construction Co. This fast-growing Engineering Construction Firm served the engineering needs of commercial developers throughout greater California and Alaska. Original focus on safety training was underground with shoring failures and heavy equipment mishaps… After free climbing over 80’ onto a utility tower, then excavating the footings of a 350' Communication Tower, Cliff began to understand the safety challenges with “at height” construction environments, as well…
Safety solutions became a passion for Cliff in the mid-1980s while working for Cultch Enterprises, Inc. After seeing several friends suffer from lack of safety training and businesses fail because they put their emphasis on pushing for profits, he left the Corporate life and reactivated his Engineering Contractors License. Wilcox Construction Co. became Camellia City Services and we started taking Safety Training back onto the JobSite where it needs to be. Following a big battle with County Haz-Mat and hearings in court with State EPA, the HazWoper program started to brew in the think-tank… though Pesticide Safety Training was next on the list… This led to the development of the Camellia City Training Center in 1991.
Partnering training talents with his Brother at ComTrain, LLC and a group of intense Construction experts, Cliff spent the next year travelling the Country and re-analyzing the great need for improved safety training in emergency responsiveness and overall awareness of safety training throughout all construction trades, but specifically to those trades involving working at extreme hieghts! Studying and communicating with the biggest and greatest “emergency response and safety training” firms in this Country, there became an even greater realization of the void that existed where the combination of interactive teaching and Construction Safety Training was sorely lacking! Advanced Safety Pros in Lincoln, CA was finally launched after years of careful and prayerful development. Our headquarters is now right by the airport in Reno, Nevada serving all health & safety training needs that your Construction Company requires for compliance AND for total peace-of-mind!
“Now, YOU benefit from all these years of hard work, construction contractor experience, subject-matter expertise and prayerfilled wisdom dealing with OSHA compliance, corporate policies, health & safety training demands, and the drive to keep a variety of construction companies profitable during tough times; ALL from your professional, Safety Account Managers here at Advanced Safety Pros Corp!” Sign-up for your first course today, enjoy and be blessed… we’ll see you back for your next class soon, as we are confident that you will want to progress YOUR safety prowess on to that next level!
Advanced Safety Pros Corp.
"Taking Health & Safety Training to a Whole New Level"
