OSHA 10- and 30-hour courses are worth it — and don’t have to be boring
Whether you’re getting your OSHA 10-hour or 30-hour certification for career advancement or to qualify to be on-site at a workplace, OSHA courses are worth it. But the courses have to be applicable, timely, and good.
They’re a dense 10- or 30-hour course respectively and are a necessary requirement for a lot of workplaces.
However, you should not take OSHA courses online. We have significant experience delivering online courses for CHEP, CEDP, BDLS, and other industry certifications. OSHA courses delivered online don’t work well, despite dozens of big-name operators online delivering them virtually.
Problems with typical online OSHA courses
Online OSHA courses take more time than advertised
People who have enrolled in our 30-hour OSHA courses routinely tell us, “I got my 10-hour online and it took 12 or more hours.” The reason is they’d get distracted. To say nothing of the lack of attention paid to a course they could or should be learning from.
Online courses aren’t immune from technical issues that prevent people from skipping ahead or at all, or timed advancement that can ultimately cost more time.
A good rule of thumb is whatever online OSHA course you’re taking, double the time estimated.
Online tests are one-size fits all and about the same
You could take the cheapest online OSHA course you could find and it’d be about the same as the most expensive ones. This is a lousy investment for workers, employers, and for the sake of best practice. Online courses are designed to be mass-market, mass-produced, and mass-consumed.
There are variations in OSHA courses
Some OSHA courses can vary under OSHA regulations to include things like more focus on ladder safety, confined spaces training, and more. Many online OSHA courses omit these often far more applicable, life-saving topics entirely.
OSHA courses don’t have to be tedious and boring
VPC does not offer online OSHA safety courses. We encourage in-person OSHA courses instead because you’ll simply get more for it.
We’ll do a complimentary walk-through first
Our OSHA instructors will walk through your plant, facility, or job site before the course. Not only does this eliminate the need for your employees to travel elsewhere, but we’ll modify the OSHA course for your job site.
- This is provided at no extra cost.
- We’ll take photos and include those as part of the “classroom” portion of the course.
- There are little to no stock photos of exterior hospital buildings or job sites.
We’ll walk-through with your employees
Depending on the size of the course, we’ll walk through the job site with everyone in the course. This applies hands-on experience spotting potential issues, showing hazards or possibly unsafe conditions, and ways to mitigate issues in real-time.
The added benefit of these walk-throughs is they provide motion to break up the course.
- Students learn more, engage more, and remember more.
- The skills they learn are applicable to their real-world job site.
- New job certifications are great for employee growth and retention.
- Students ultimately save time, which can save employers money in lost productivity.
Request or sign-up for an OSHA 10-hour or 30-hour course
VPC provides 10-hour and 30-hour OSHA certification courses across Indiana, the Midwest, and much of the US. Courses are typically arranged by demand or region.
To get started with an OSHA 10-hour or 30-hour course, request one online now.
