This interactive, pictorial-based training self-study computer program teaches workers how to recognize safety and health hazards when working in and around excavations and trenches and how to protect themselves and others from hazards.

Produced in English and Spanish for both audio track and visual text, it presents excavation safety in a manner that permits learning comprehension by workers with limited education or reading skills.

Includes English and Spanish
 (Will not play in DVD player)

Item #Excav.saf - $99.00

Every year about 400 U.S. workers die in trenches and 6,400 workers are seriously injured in trench cave-ins. That’s why your people need to understand trench hazards - and how to prevent cave-ins. Complies with OSHA 1926.650-652. Includes 10 handbooks.

• Grain size and saturation
• Cohesion and soil testing
• Protective systems

Item #TRE02V - $495.00 18 minutes

OSHA estimates that approximately 90 deaths and thousands of injuries will occur every year because someone didn't know basic trenching and shoring safety guidelines. The practical safeguards covered here can help prevent these needless casualties.

• Evaluating an excavation site
• Effective worker protection systems
• Emergency response

Item #CST01V - $195.00 10 minutes

Working in and around trenches is dangerous business. One type of trench protection is hydraulic shoring. Hydraulic shoring prevents failure of trench walls, is easy to install, is easily pressure checked and can be used around crossing utilities. Make sure your workers know how to install hydraulic shoring -- and use it right.

• Definition of vertical shores
• Benefits of vertical shores
• What are hydraulic walers ·
• Benefits of hydraulic walers

Item #TREO5V - $295.00, 20 minutes

OSHA's excavation standard requires minimum safe work practices and helps to make safe work possible in this hazardous setting. This video program covers safe selection, installation and removal of trench shields and boxes.

• Selection
• Assembly and installation
• Stable soil and unstable soil

Item # TREO4V, $295.00, 18 minutes.
* English AND Spanish on single DVD *

Knowing the colors and meaning of utility markers is only part of the answer to safe, damage-free digging. Physically exposing buried utilities in a safe, efficient way is absolutely vital to any installation or repair. Learn the most efficient and cost effective means through this video. Available February 2001. · One-call requirements · Open trench & trenchless · Vacuum systems · Hand digging · Damage response

Item # SEEING - $149.00, 23 minutes

OSHA's Excavation standard (29 CFR Sections 1926.650-652) is heavily enforced. Stay out of OSHA's doghouse and help keep your employees safe. In the video, viewers visit construction jobsites to see examples of proper trenching and shoring techniques. The video covers soil classification, protective support systems, emergency response and more. Employee handbooks help reinforce the video's messages and include both a quiz and a detachable "Receipt Page" to document training. Other support materials, including a "how-to-train" guide for instructors, make program preparation and presentation easy. The kit includes the following materials: 1 19-minute Training Video, 1 Training log, 10 employee handbooks with quizzes, 10 trenching/Shoring Site Checklists, 10 OSHA Excavation Standard Handbooks, 10 wallet cards, 1 Instructor’s Guide. Call for extra materials.

Item # TI-52-K - $399.00, 19 minutes plus above

Video reviews the do’s and don’ts of trench rescue and can help save the lives of both the person in the trench and the would-be rescuer. Topics: shoring and shielding, examines an actual cave-in, preparing for the rescue team.

Item # TRE01V - $495.00, 14 minutes
* English AND Spanish on single DVD *

Stresses safe working habits on excavation sites:

• Know potential hazards & soil conditions
• Know & use all protective systems
• Safe work habits & proper emergency procedures

Item # VIS440 - $283.00, 14 minutes