What's Inside
Emergency action plans
What an EAP contains — reporting, evacuation routes, critical shutdown duties, accounting for employees and rescue roles — and where you fit in it.
Fire prevention basics
Fuel, ignition sources and housekeeping, including hot work and fueling areas.
Evacuation procedures
Routes, exits, assembly points and the headcount that tells responders whether anyone is missing.
Severe weather and shelter events
Tornado, lightning and lockdown basics, and where to go when you're far from a building.
Drills and readiness
Why practice decides how a real event unfolds.
Skills You'll Leave With
Follow your site's emergency action plan: routes, exits and assembly points
Prevent fires through housekeeping and ignition-source control
Respond correctly to fire alarms, severe weather and shelter-in-place events
Carry out assigned roles such as area sweeps, headcounts and assisting others
The OSHA Requirements Behind EAPs
29 CFR 1910.38 sets the minimum content of an emergency action plan when another OSHA standard requires one, and employers must review the plan with each employee covered by it. Construction has a parallel rule at 1926.35. Many sites also need a fire prevention plan under 1910.39.
Employers with ten or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally rather than in writing — one of several details the course explains so workers understand what they should be told on day one.
A good plan names who calls 911, who shuts down equipment that can't simply be abandoned, who sweeps each area and who meets responders at the gate. On a crane job that list should include what happens to a suspended load: the lift plan should say whether the operator lands it, and where, before leaving the machine. Lift planners can study these decisions further in our Lift Director prep.
Emergencies That Look Different on a Crane Job
Lightning and wind
A raised boom is the tallest object around. Lift plans should say when to stop, how to secure the crane and where the crew shelters. The manufacturer's wind limits and your mobile crane training set the operating side.
Fires near fuel and hot work
Fuel trucks, generators and cutting torches near combustible packaging make housekeeping and extinguisher access critical.
Accounting on open sites
With subcontractors arriving and leaving, a reliable headcount at the assembly point is harder — and more important.
Who Should Take It
- All site employees
- Crew leads and foremen
- Evacuation wardens
- Office and trailer staff
- Lift directors and planners
The plan itself is site-specific
This course explains how emergency plans work. Your employer writes the plan for your facility or jobsite, assigns roles, posts routes and runs drills — none of which an online course can do.