Master Builders of Iowa

Yes. The OSHA Outreach Training Program has revised the course to limit the training to 7 1/2 hours per day.  Therefore all 10-hour courses must be conducted over a minimum of two days and the 30-hour over four days.  This effort is to improve the quality and integrity of the Outreach Training Program.  If training does not meet the requirement, the trainer will not receive student completion cards.  Contractors who have their workers take the course will need to adjust the work schedule.

Yes.

This question describes a situation where you use a crane to hoist oxygen and acetylene tanks strapped to a wheeled cart. The tanks are secured to the cart with tank clamps, not chains, which can be tightened down around both tanks.  At the top of the card there must be an arm with a closed loop to attach the rigging. OSHA requires that the regulators must be removed and valve protection caps be put on unless it is a special carrier intended for this purpose.

Yes. OSHA’s subpart C for General Safety And Health provisions require skid-steer operators to be trained under 1926.21(b)(2) and 1926.20(b)(4) requirements.  The employer is required to train skid-steer operators so that they can recognize and avoid unsafe conditions.  As a practical matter, such training needs to be comprehensive enough to ensure that the operator is fully capable of safely handling the equipment in the type of conditions encountered at the site.  The amount of training necessary to fulfill the requirement may be based on the extent to which

Extension cords used in construction may be repaired, so long as the repair is as strong as the original condition as required by 1926.403(a).

Yes

Fall Protection requirements for workers other than roofers, working on low-slope roofs.

Can other trades work on a low sloped roof if they use a 6’feet warning line from the edge and not have to be secured with safety harness or guard rails?

no.

ANSI only tests and certifies hard hats to be worn with the bill forward.  Hard hats worn with the bill to the rear would not be considered reliable protection and would not meet the requirements.  If the manufacturer certifies that it would be acceptable to wear the hard hat with the bill to the rear then you could wear it when the hard hat liner is turned, however you must get the approval of the manufacture.

No, but the following procedures must be followed to train employees on the proper usage:
 

You would be surprised how many times the stairs to trailers are not constructed in a safe manner and do not meet OSHA requirements.  Contractors have been cited and fined for not having safe access for the trailers.