Health and Safety Training

An effective employee training program is essential to establishing and emphasizing health and safety-based behaviors, communicating work rules, and meeting compliance training requirements.  Colden’s highly experienced training specialists offer standardized or client customized and site-specific programs. We work with our clients to identify current employee training needs, define applicable training requirements, and create course materials using state-of-the-art training media and interactive programs, whether for instructor-led or computer-based courses.

Training Course Topics

  • Accident Investigation, Reporting, and Management
  • Asbestos Awareness
  • Bloodborne Pathogens
  • Chemical Specific Standards (Subpart Z Substances such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, formaldehyde, etc.)
  • Confined Space Entry
  • Compressed Gases
  • Electrical Safety
  • Arc Flash Safety (NFPA 70E)
  • Emergency Action Plan and Evacuation
  • Ergonomics
  • Fall Protection and Walking/Working Surfaces
  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Fire Prevention Plan
  • Flammable/Combustible Materials Storage
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste and All Levels of Emergency Response)
  • Hazard Communication
  • Injury and Illness Prevention
  • Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation
  • Job Safety Analysis/Job Hazard Analysis
  • Laboratory Safety and Chemical Hygiene
  • Laser Safety
  • Lockout /Tagout (LOTO)
  • Machine Guarding
  • Occupational Noise/Hearing Conservation
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Powered Industrial Trucks
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Welding, Cutting and Brazing and Hot Work

Along with the various topics listed above, we offer training for Health and Safety Auditing and Health and Safety Boot Camp for the Non-Health and Safety Professional (Multi-day). We also offer “Freeze Frame: Focus on Health and Safety”, a highly interactive Health and Safety training experience. Our facilitators discuss and test seminar participants on issues identified in the photos presented and are challenged to rank the severity, review various regulations that may apply, and share ideas regarding corrective action.

Colden Health and Safety Training Services (PDF)

Massachusetts Department of Fire Services: Hot Works Training Seminars (PDF)

Freeze Frame: Focus on Health and Safety (PDF)