As part of its continuing effort to improve the Outreach Training Program, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) will be eliminating the authorized trainer “90-day grace period” described in Sections III.B.1.,2, and 4 of the OSHA
Outreach Training Program Requirements. This change will be included in the next published revisions of the OSHA
Outreach Training Program Requirements and applicable sections of each Industry Procedures document,
and will become effective January 1, 2019. However, Section III.C. of the OSHA Outreach Training Program Requirements
(Trainer Update Exemption for Overseas Military Service) remains in effect while the Agency evaluates the impact of this change.
Elimination of the grace period is intended to reduce confusion regarding trainer authorization status,
and to encourage trainers to maintain their trainer authorization(s). OSHA urges authorized trainers
to schedule registration, attendance, and completion of the relevant Trainer Update course well in advance
of their trainer authorization expiration date. Authorized trainers that let their authorization lapse will
be ineligible to attend a Trainer Update course, and will be required to meet all prerequisite requirements
to attend the relevant Trainer course, to include having successfully completed the applicable OSHA Standards course(s)
within seven calendar years of attendance at the Trainer course. Extensions of trainer authorizations
that expire on or after January 1, 2019, will not be granted.
For additional information regarding this matter, interested Outreach trainers should contact their
Authorizing Training Organization (ATO), or the Outreach Training Program at: Outreach@dol.gov.
The list of current ATOs is available at: https://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/ato.html