In an effort to crack down on fraudulent training classes, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) May 20 announced it is increasing oversight of its Outreach Training Program and changing how participants become authorized to teach.
The voluntary Outreach Training Program is a national network of more than 16,000 independent trainers eligible to teach workers and employers about workplace hazards and to provide OSHA 10- and 30-hour course completion cards.
OSHA has increased unannounced monitoring visits to verify that trainers are in compliance with program requirements and will continue to refer fraudulent activity to the DOL Office of Inspector General. Trainers caught falsifying information will be subject to criminal prosecution. In addition, a “watch list” of outreach trainers who have received disciplinary action will be posted on
www.osha.gov.
For more information, visit the OSHA website at
www.osha.gov.