Frequently Asked Questions

This is a potential fraud case, and must be reported to federal OSHA, They will refer fraudulent activity to the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General, and trainers caught falsifying information will subject to criminal prosecution.

When an authorized trainer requests your course completion card from the OSHA Regional Training Center, they must certify that they have conducted this training per the guidelines.

They also sign a document that they understand that they will be subject to immediate dismissal from the OSHA Outreach Training Program if the information they provide is not true and correct. Further, by signing the document the instructor understands that providing false information may subject them to civil and criminal penalties under Federal law, including 18 U.S.C. 1001, and section 17(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. 666(g), which provides criminal penalties for making false statements or representations in any document filed pursuant to that Act.

Yes; federal OSHA has established an anti-fraud program. The public is asked to call a new outreach fraud hotline at (847) 297-4810 to file complaints about program fraud and abuse. OSHA also has developed a new process for investigating and adjudicating complaints; and a “watch list” of outreach trainers who have received disciplinary action will be posted on OSHA’s public website.

Both Nevada and OTI require each authorized trainer to display their trainer card in a conspicuous manner at each location, where they provide an OSHA 10 or 30-Hour course. No person other than an authorized trainer with a valid card may teach these courses (guest speakers may assist; however, the authorized trainer must still be present). The card will have the instructor’s name, the OSHA Training Center where the trainer received his card, and the card’s expiration date. Authorized trainers are required to renew their cards every four years.

They must comply with all provisions of the OSHA Outreach Training Guidelines, or risk revocation of their trainer card. When requesting course completion cards, they must certify that they have complied with these guidelines and understand that they may be subject to immediate dismissal from the OSHA Outreach Training Program if the information is not true and correct and may be subject to criminal prosecution for violating federal law.

You must contact the individual trainer who issued your card to obtain a replacement, not OSHA. It is the trainer’s responsibility to obtain replacement cards from the Regional Training Center from which they obtained them.

Trainers must keep the following records for five years: student sign-in sheets; student addresses; copy of the documentation sent in to request cards, including a list of topics taught; the amount of time for each topic; and records that indicate the student’s name and the serial number of the card issued to each student.

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The card will show the title of the course, the typed or printed name of the attendee, the typed or printed name of the trainer, and the class completion date. Trainers may not alter the cards or use white-out on them.

Yes; however, only under certain conditions. If a student trained in the 10-hour Construction or General Industry course wants to take the 30-hour course at a later time, they must receive 20 more training hours and the earlier topics and the new topics combined satisfy the curriculum requirements of the 30-hour course.

The limitations are as follows: the same trainer must have done all of the training (the first 10 hours and the next 20 hours); all of the training must be completed, from start to finish, within six months; and the original 10-hour course completion cards must be returned to the OSHA Regional Training Center to receive the 30-hour cards.

It normally takes 2-4 weeks for a trainer to receive student course completion cards from the appropriate OSHA Regional Training Center.