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New Jersey OSHA Training

New Jersey workers can benefit from workplace health and safety training in numerous ways. Even if your current employer does not require OSHA Outreach training, earning an official OSHA card is a low-cost way to improve your resume for future job opportunities.

New Jersey

New Jersey Labor Laws

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDLWD), responsible for investigating safety hazards, and the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), responsible for investigating health hazards, administer the New Jersey Public Employee Occupational Safety and Health Program (PEOSH). PEOSH's standards augment and supersede OSHA standards. It covers state, county and town government officials, as well as employees with public authorities, school districts and paid and volunteer fire departments. Private employers and all other agencies must follow national OSHA standards.

A top initiative for PEOSH is to ensure safety during cleanups following disasters, such as tropical storms and hurricanes. Good intentions can lead to calamitous results; hence, PEOSH urges everyone to stay abreast of safety issues they may encounter following a natural or man-made disaster. For more information, see this widely circulated new release.

PEOSH also enforces the New Jersey Indoor Air Quality Standard (N.J.A.C. 12:100-13). You can learn more about this standard on PEOSH's website. New PEOSH reporting requirements went into effect January 5, 2015. On the PEOSH site, you can learn about chain saw safety, flood response and recovery, mold and asbestos, and whistleblower policies.

New Jersey Top OSHA Violations

New Jersey's leading cause of workplace fatalities has recently been related to transportation and material moving. Though there can be many causes for this type of tragedy, backover, which occurs when a reversing vehicle hits a worker behind it, is common yet easily preventable. Nationwide, more than 70 workers were killed in this manner in 2011.

The most cited standard, which also receives the highest penalties, is for fall prevention in construction. Falls commonly cause serious work-related injuries and deaths, and OSHA has many guidelines to help prevent them.

Further Reading and Resources

OSHA Courses

Online OSHA courses provide fast and efficient training for workers. While classroom courses are offered throughout the state, online OSHA Outreach training guarantees high-quality, interactive education for every student, with downloadable lesson reviews, course trainer access and 24/7 live customer support.

These courses can be completed on your time, stopped and resumed as often as you want. Choose from the courses below to learn more about OSHA training available for your area.

New Jersey Courses Online

What You Get

  • Instantly Downloadable Certificate
  • Official OSHA Card
  • Email Access to OSHA-Authorized Course Trainer

OSHA Guidelines

OSHA's purpose is to provide safe conditions for workers. OSHA sets very broad and general regulations that most businesses must followed, as well as more detailed standards for specific industries, from construction to cosmetology and beyond.

Receiving OSHA training has benefits beyond meeting requirements and keeping employees safe. It leads to healthier employees with more ease of mind, which increases productivity. Boosting morale, it reduces turnover and the time and resources spent on recruiting and training replacements. It reduces productive workers' time away from the job due to injury and illness. This is all in addition to helping protect you from OSHA's retribution, as it can levy heavy fines for not following the standards presented in our OSHA courses.