OSHA Cadmium Awareness Training

Cadmium is a naturally occurring metal that is soft, bluish silver or silver white in color, and highly toxic. It has an atomic number of 48 and is typically found as a byproduct of zinc, lead, and copper refining. Cadmium is used in various industrial applications, such as batteries, pigments, coatings, plastics, metal plating, and certain alloys.

This OSHA Cadmium Standard Training is important as it:

• Helps employees identify cadmium presence and understand how regular work activities can expose them to cadmium.
• Safeguards employees from severe health hazards related to cadmium.
• Raises awareness on hazardous job operations that produce cadmium dust or fumes, such as hot work, surface preparation, and material handling.
• Gives guidance on the appropriate use of personal protective equipment, workplace practice controls, and engineering controls for preventing effective exposure.
• Supports cadmium OSHA standards compliance by reinforcing exposure limitations, air monitoring, medical surveillance, and hazard communication requirements.

• Workers in Construction and General Industry who are exposed to cadmium during manufacturing, maintenance, welding, cutting, coating removal, or demolition operations.
• Safety professionals in charge of maintaining compliance with OSHA cadmium standards and detecting hazards associated with it.
• Site managers, foremen, and supervisors overseeing tasks that produce cadmium dust.
• Facilities and operations managers in charge of enacting exposure controls and air monitoring.
• Workers engaged in medical surveillance coordination, exposure evaluation, or cadmium-related inspections and monitoring.

• Aligned with OSHA standards 29 CFR 1910.1027 and 29 CFR 1926.1127 for General Industry and Construction Industry, respectively.
• Designed by safety and compliance experts with practical experience on cadmium hazards and controls.
• Certificate of Completion awarded on successful course completion.
• Self-paced internet learning, live virtual sessions, and in-person classroom training are among the flexible delivery options offered to fit workforce scheduling requirements.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

• Employers must provide OSHA cadmium training before or concurrently with the first task assignment where there may be exposure to cadmium.
• Refresher training is necessary at least once every year.
• Training must include documented employee involvement and must be understandable to employees.
• Employers must maintain records of training program material.

Certificate of Completion: Immediately after passing the final exam, you will be able to download, save, or print your certificate in PDF format.

Validity: The Cadmium Safety Training course certificate remains valid for one year.

Renewal: Simply take this course in 12 months to maintain compliance and stay up to date on best practices for cadmium.