You probably came here looking for outreach cards. We used to sell them. We stopped, and it would be dishonest to take your money for something we spend the rest of this website arguing against.
An OSHA 10 or 30 card is an outreach credential. It is awareness training — a broad introduction to the kinds of hazards that exist. It was never designed to satisfy the standard-specific training OSHA actually requires, and it does not make anyone a competent person for anything.
That distinction gets lost, and the consequences are real. We have walked onto sites where the person designated to identify excavation hazards held a 10-hour card and could not classify soil. The paperwork was in order. The trench was not.
The card is not the problem. Selling it as though it closes a gap it does not close is the problem — and we cannot both take that money and tell you the truth about it.
Plenty of general contractors and owners require OSHA 10 or 30 to badge onto a site. That requirement is real and we are not going to pretend otherwise or talk you out of meeting it.
Any OSHA-authorized outreach trainer can issue those cards, and for a commodity credential you should pay commodity prices — online courses run well under $200 a seat. Buy it, file it, satisfy the requirement. Then spend your training budget on the part that actually keeps people out of a trench.
Training that produces a defensible competent-person determination, not a card.
This person sat through ten or thirty hours of general hazard awareness and received a card from the Department of Labor.
A credentialed third party watched this specific person classify soil with their hands, and can testify to what they demonstrated.
Tell us the work your crews do and we will tell you which training the standard requires — including when the answer is that you do not need us.