Training Details
Title: Trenching and Excavation
Description: This course focuses on OSHA standards and the safety aspects of excavation and trenching. Students are introduced to practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored slopes and walls of excavations. Various types of shoring (wood timbers and hydraulic) are covered. Testing methods are demonstrated and a half-day field exercise is conducted, allowing students to use instruments such as penetrometers, torvane shears, and engineering rods.
Audience: Constuction Industry
Price: $650
Website: http://osha.ucsd.edu/301.htm
Notes: Check the web site above for course schedule.
Contact:
OSHA Training Institute
University of California
San Diego, California 94105
Phone: (800) 358-9206
