EPA Safety Training

Firms performing renovations, repairs and painting in homes, childcare facilities and preschools built before 1978 are require to receive RRP training by an EPA-approved provider if they disturb lead-based paint.   Staff of residential property such as handymen, and superintendents along with general contractors and specialty trades persons such as painters, plumber carpenter and electrician performing related interior work where negative lead paint status has not been determined are required to be trained. The training highlights the requirement to document that dwellers were provided with information pamphlets; work practice requirement such as not using heating guns, and the recordkeeping/reporting requirements of the standard.

Pyramid Safety & Health Solutions in combination with Atwater and Associated can perform onsite training for your staff and provide documentation of training which is good for five years. With sufficient notice EPA Risk Assessor, Inspector and Dust wipe technician training can also be arranged.

General Safety Training

Safety and health training is also mandated for workers in General Industry occupational settings including medical facilities, hotels, nursing homes, factories etc. For instance, in the hotel industry room attendants have the highest rates of injuries compared to all other jobs in the accommodations industries. 

Pyramid Safety & Health Solutions Inc. have provided targeted trainings services to one of the largest providers of cleaning personnels to NYC hotels.  Beside reducing worker injuries and the associated cost, the training also helps to increase worker retention in an industry notorious for high rates of turnover. The safety training also impacts worker morale and in turn work quality as their concerns are addressed and improvements are made.

Healthcare workers face many workplace hazards that include bloodborne pathogens and biological hazards, potential chemical and drug exposures, waste anesthetic gas exposures, respiratory hazards, ergonomic hazards from lifting and repetitive tasks, laser hazards, workplace violence, hazards associated with laboratories, and radioactive material and x-ray hazards according to OSHA. Medical office employees in dental clinics, optometry and various independent medical practitioners also experience some of these hazards while on the job. Pyramid Safety & Health solutions can provide general industry training as well as the required NYS Department of Health infection control training that is required every five years.