June Safety Classes

May 28, 2025

Dear Employer,

Workplace safety and labor law requirements can seem complex - join the Maine Department of Labor for no-cost upcoming trainings!

Upcoming classes:

Establishing or Improving Your Safety & Health Committee June 3 l 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta Whether starting a new safety and health committee or improving your existing one, this course will provide employers with the key elements to a successful team, safety committee design recommendations, facilitation basics, and common practices of effective safety and health committees.

Confined Space Rescue Planning June 4, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta This six-hour classroom presentation will include a review of the rescue requirements found in 1910.146 Permit-required Confined Spaces in Section K, Rescue and Emergency services from 1926.1200, and Confined Spaces in Construction in Section 1211, Rescue. Planning for rescue includes identification and classification of spaces, hazard identification, elimination and control, training and equipment. It also includes site/space-specific procedures (SOPs) and checklists as well as training and exercises. A review of the highlights of Chapter 10, Rescue in NFPA 350, a guide for safe confined-space entry, and of Chapter 5, Confined Space Rescue in NFPA 1670 will also be presented.

Heat Illness Prevention June 10, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Sanford Adult Education, 668 Main Street, Sanford Every year, dozens of workers die and thousands more become ill while working in hot or humid conditions. This course educates employers on signs and symptoms of heat illness, recognizing heat hazards, and provides resources to keep workers safe.

Trenching & Excavation June 16, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta This course explains the dangers to employees from trenching and excavation operations, soil classifications, OSHA requirements, and the types of protective systems to prevent cave-ins. You will also learn what is meant by "competent person".

Developing & Conducting Assessments, Audits, and Inspections June 17, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta Identifying hazards is a key element to preventing injuries in the workplace. This course explores the timing, frequency, and process of various hazard identification tools that can be used to proactively protect your workers.

Scaffolding & Fall Protection June 18, 2025 l 8:30a.m. 4:30 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta This one-day training session is designed to help owners, managers, and supervisors recognize and respond appropriately to employee-impairment in the workplace to reduce worker accidents and injuries. Participants will be taught procedures to detect impairment regardless of the substance or cause. This class is designed to fulfill the federal DOT requirements for reasonable suspicion training of supervisors. In addition, participants will learn how to develop and implement policies that address impairment in the workplace and are in compliance with Maine's Substance Use Testing Law.

Machine Guarding June 23, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta Participants will learn how to identify hazards which require machine guarding and the methods available to protect employees from those hazards.

Safety & Health Management Systems June 24, 2025 l 8:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta Successful safety and health programs are more than just compliance with the OSHA standards. Injuries and illnesses are reduced when employers possess common elements to identify and address safety and health hazards. This course outlines roles and responsibilities, common principles, required functions and programs of a successful safety and health management system. This course prepares organizations who would like to pursue SHARP/ SHAPE.

Wage & Hour Compliance in Mandarin June 25, 2025 l 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. SafetyWorks! Training Institute, 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta This course is designed for human resource or benefits professionals, accountants, business owners, managers, or payroll supervisors. Labor laws can be complex. This seminar covers wage and hour laws, including minimum wage, overtime, youth employment, severance pay, equal pay, rest breaks, leave requirements (earned paid leave, family medical leave, family sick leave and leave for victims of violence). This class addresses commonly asked labor-related questions.

Register and browse more SafetyWorks! classes: https://www.safetyworksmaine.gov/training/scheduled_classes/register.shtml

If you have questions about safety or upcoming classes, reach out to SafetyWorks! at 1-877-SAFE-345 or general.bls-safetyworks@maine.gov.

If you have questions about Wage and Hour compliance, please reach out to the Wage and Hour Division at 207-623-7900 or bls.mdol@maine.gov, or visit https://www.maine.gov/labor/bls/ .

SafetyWorks! is also a host site for the Region 1 OSHA Training Institute Education Center. To register go to https://oshaedne.com/osha-503/ or call 800-449-6742. Please note, the below class has a registration fee to attend.

The next class will be:

June 9 -12, 2025: NCOS 501 Trainer Course in OSHA Standards General Industry

Thank you,

The Maine Department of Labor