The five tracks below aren’t an arbitrary filing system — they follow the five reasons companies actually buy safety training. Sometimes a jobsite or a contract demands a card before anyone walks through the gate. Sometimes an OSHA standard demands a designated, trained person by name. Sometimes a machine can’t legally move until its operator is certified. Sometimes it’s the standing compliance calendar that keeps a program legal year over year. And sometimes it’s the high-consequence work — the emergencies you train for precisely because you hope they never happen. Find the reason that brought you here, and the right track is under it. Each one has its own full guide with the complete course lineup, and if the need spans more than one track — most do — tell us the work and we’ll map the courses to it.
Not sure which requirements apply to you? Start with the OSHA compliance training overview — it maps each 1910/1926 standard to the course that satisfies it — then come back and build the visit.
OSHA 10 & 30 Outreach
This is the track people mean when they say “my crew needs their OSHA cards.” The 10-hour course is the entry-level card for the workers on the tools — two days of hazard recognition built around the Focus Four dangers that kill most construction workers: falls, struck-by, caught-in-between, and electrocution. The 30-hour is the supervisor’s card — four days deep enough to cover the standards themselves, safety program management, and what actually happens during an OSHA inspection. Both come in construction and general-industry versions, so a jobsite crew and a warehouse crew each get the curriculum that matches their world.
What makes ours different from the online version is simple: it’s a live class at your site, taught under our founder’s OSHA 500 authorization and our team’s OSHA 501, with the electives picked to match your work instead of a canned playlist. Graduates receive official Department of Labor cards — the credential general contractors write into subcontracts, owners write into site safety plans, and a growing list of states and cities have written into law. One private class turns into a roster of cards your whole company carries for years, and that roster becomes a prequalification asset every time a bid package asks who’s trained.
Courses: OSHA 10 Construction · OSHA 30 Construction · OSHA 10 General Industry · OSHA 30 General Industry
Competent-Person Courses
OSHA’s definition of a competent person has two halves, and companies routinely get the second one wrong. The first half is knowledge — someone capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards. The second half is authority — someone empowered to take prompt corrective action, including stopping the work, without phoning the office for permission. The four standards in this track — fall protection, confined spaces, scaffolds, and excavation — are written around that person. A trench can’t be entered until a competent person inspected it today. A scaffold can’t be used until one signed off this shift. When a compliance officer arrives, “who is your competent person?” is the first question, and “let me check” is the wrong answer.
These courses run in two layers in the same visit: the whole crew trains to user level — how to work safely inside the system — and your designated leads continue into the competent-person module, where the decision-making lives: soil classification by test, anchorage evaluation, pre-shift scaffold inspection, permit management. You leave with both layers documented separately and the designation-letter framework that makes the appointment official on paper.
Courses: Fall Protection · Confined Space Entry · Scaffold Safety · Excavation & Trenching
Operator Training & Certification
The part of forklift and lift training that surprises most companies: there is no government license. Certification is an employer duty — you must ensure each operator is trained, evaluated on your equipment in your workplace, and certified in writing. That’s why a card from some weekend course doesn’t make a new hire legal on your dock, and it’s why this track is built to close the whole loop in one visit: formal instruction, hands-on practice, and the documented practical evaluation, on the trucks and lifts your crew actually runs.
Coverage spans all seven forklift classes — sit-down counterbalance to reach trucks to rough-terrain telehandlers — and boom and scissor lifts by ANSI group and type, including the per-model familiarization the newer A92 standards require every time a different machine shows up on the rental truck. We track the three-year re-evaluation clock with you and train your supervisors on the five triggers that restart it early. Crane operator certification training, rigger, and signal-person qualification live with our crane-dedicated sister company, and when a project needs both, we coordinate so you mobilize once.
Courses: Forklift Operator · Aerial & Scissor Lift · Forklift Train the Trainer · Aerial Lift Train the Trainer
Compliance & Site-Safety Courses
This is the quiet middle of a safety program — fourteen standing training obligations that every covered employer owns, forever. It’s also where programs rot without anyone noticing: the HazCom binder that’s three chemical deliveries out of date, the hearing-conservation class half the crew predates, the PPE hazard assessment nobody can find. None of it hurts anyone on a good day. All of it surfaces in the first hour of an inspection — which is why OSHA’s most-cited-standards list reads like this track’s table of contents, and why so many of those citations are specifically for training that didn’t happen or can’t be proven.
The track covers chemicals and exposures (HazCom, silica, respiratory, hearing), hazardous energy and machines (lockout/tagout, machine guarding, arc flash), surfaces (ladders, walking-working surfaces), fire (hot work, fire prevention and emergency action plans), and people (bloodborne pathogens, PPE, heat illness). Course length is tailored to each job and crew, and the courses bundle beautifully: a single on-site training day commonly stacks several of them for the same crew. We build the role-by-role training matrix with you during scoping — free — so the annuals anchor a calendar date and the whole layer stays green with one or two planned days a year.
Courses: HazCom / GHS · Lockout / Tagout · Respiratory Protection · Bloodborne Pathogens · PPE · Arc Flash / NFPA 70E · Silica Awareness · Hearing Conservation · Heat Illness Prevention · Ladder Safety · Walking-Working Surfaces · Machine Guarding · Hot Work Safety · Fire Prevention & EAP
Specialty & High-Hazard Courses
Most training exists to keep the bad day from happening. This track exists for the day it happens anyway. First Aid/CPR/AED trains your on-site responders for the gap between “call 911” and the ambulance clearing your gate — a gap OSHA’s response-time interpretation measures in three to four minutes for a cardiac emergency, which is why the first responder at most industrial sites is going to be one of your own people or nobody. H2S awareness covers the gas that disables your sense of smell before it drops you, for oil and gas, wastewater, pulp, and anywhere organic material decays in a confined space.
HAZWOPER rounds out the track at whichever tier your work actually requires — the 40-hour for uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites, the 24-hour for occasional or low-exposure work, the 8-hour annual refresher that keeps either one alive, and the emergency-response levels for plants whose own people would do anything beyond evacuating during a chemical release. Buying the wrong tier wastes either a week of wages or a citation, so we scope the task list before we quote — and tell you straight if awareness-level is all you need.
Courses: First Aid / CPR / AED · H2S Awareness · HAZWOPER
How On-Site Delivery Works
Every course in this catalog runs the same way: we come to you. The instructor teaches at your jobsite, plant, warehouse, or office — conference room, break room, or trailer — and the hands-on portions happen on your equipment, your anchor points, your chemicals, your machines. That isn’t a convenience feature; it’s the pedagogy. A forklift evaluation in your aisles, a fall-protection class on your roof edge, a HazCom session built from your actual chemical rack — those stick in a way no rented classroom or click-through module ever will, and in several of the standards, workplace-specific content isn’t optional anyway.
Scheduling bends around production, not the other way around. Split sessions across shifts, nights and weekends for 24/7 operations, crews rotating through hands-on stations a few at a time while the floor keeps moving — all normal. And because one mobilization can carry courses from several tracks, the most efficient bookings usually mix them: OSHA 10 for the new hires, a competent-person module for the leads, and two compliance courses for everybody, all in the same visit. Tell us the head count, the shifts, and the work, and we’ll build the agenda.
Who Does the Teaching
3P Safety Training is founder-led, and it shows in the classroom. Patrick Salazar has been in the field since 2005 — OSHA 500 authorized construction outreach trainer, NCCCO-certified mobile and tower crane operator, certified crane inspector, and lift director — and the instructor bench he built teaches from the same place: people who have run the work, not presented about it. The war stories in the falls module are real ones. The questions your operators get asked during an evaluation are the ones a working equipment professional actually asks. That experience is also why we’ll tell you when you don’t need a course — a training company you can trust to say “that’s overkill” is worth keeping.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which track should we start with?
Start with whatever’s blocking work: cards for site access, a competent person for a standard, operator certs for equipment. If nothing’s on fire, start with the compliance track’s training matrix — mapping your roles against the fourteen standing obligations almost always surfaces the real priority list, and we build that matrix free during scoping.
Can we combine courses from different tracks in one visit?
Yes, and most bookings do. The tracks organize the catalog; they don’t restrict the agenda. A typical mixed day runs an outreach class for one group while leads take a competent-person module, then short compliance courses for everyone. One mobilization, one roster process, several line items closed.
Are classes private, or do you run open enrollment?
The catalog on this page is private, on-site delivery — your people, your location, your schedule. That’s the model that lets the content run on your actual hazards. If you have just one or two people to train, ask anyway; we’ll tell you honestly whether a private visit makes sense or whether there’s a smarter way to cover them.
Do you really deliver in all 50 states?
Yes — we’re headquartered in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and our instructors travel nationwide. Browse the locations directory to see how delivery works in your state, including the state-plan wrinkles that change requirements in places like California, Washington, and Michigan.
What documentation do we get after a class?
Every course closes with a records package: signed rosters, written tests where the standard expects them, certificates and wallet cards, evaluation forms for the operator courses, and the program templates — designation letters, hazard assessments, written plans — that the training legally sits on. It’s formatted to survive an OSHA document request or a customer audit without reassembly.
How do we get pricing?
Request a quote with the course or the problem, your head count, and the site location, and we’ll scope it — usually same day. Quotes are flat and all-inclusive; travel is built in, and there’s no per-student surprise math after the class.
Need crane operator, rigger, or signal-person certification training? That lives with our sister company, 3P Safety Crane & Rigging Training. Equipment inspections are handled by 3P Safety Inspections. And to see how we deliver in your state, browse training locations.