1-Hour Excavation Safety Training NYC
CARD FEE INCLUDED
Applicable SST Worker and Supervisor Card fees are included in SST course tuition. Details & eligibility
Learn to recognize trench and excavation hazards, protective systems and basic safe-work practices around open excavations.
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What This Course Is Designed to Do
Learn to recognize trench and excavation hazards, protective systems and basic safe-work practices around open excavations. The goal is not simply to complete hours—it is to help students understand how the subject connects to real work on New York City construction sites and how it fits into their required training path.
Who Should Take This Course?
Construction workers who need an SST elective or who work around trenches, excavations, underground utilities or earth-moving operations.
How It Fits Your Training Path
Excavation Safety is used as an SST elective and helps workers recognize severe hazards associated with trenches, excavations and changing ground conditions.
Topics Covered in Training
The course is organized around practical hazard recognition, communication and jobsite application. Key subjects include:
Cave-in hazards
Understand why soil movement can be sudden and catastrophic.
Protective systems
Review basic concepts of sloping, benching, shoring and shielding.
Access and egress
Recognize the importance of safe entry and exit from excavations.
Spoils and equipment
Understand how materials and equipment near the edge can add hazards.
Atmospheric and water hazards
Recognize that excavations can also involve air-quality and water-accumulation concerns.
Competent-person role
Understand why inspections and changing conditions require qualified oversight.
From Registration to Completion
Confirm the Right Course
Before registering, make sure this exact course matches your SST card, renewal, employer or DOB requirement.
Complete the Training
Attend the required instructional hours and participate in the course activities, review and knowledge checks as applicable.
Keep Your Training Record
After successful completion, retain the applicable completion documentation for your employer, training record or next SST/DOB step.
Before You Register
Bring Your Existing Training Information
If you are working toward an SST card or renewal, have your existing OSHA/SST course information available. That makes it easier to determine what you still need and helps prevent duplicate training.
Students who are unsure should call (718) 790-2664 before purchasing a course.
Online vs. In-Person
This English self-paced course is available through Tribune Online Academy. Contact Tribune if you need another delivery format.
Select Start Online Course to register in the popup on this page. Study 15 narrated lessons with English captions, guided practice and the required final exam.
Training Built Around the NYC Student Pathway
Tribune Training Academy serves construction workers and safety professionals in New York City with SST, OSHA, scaffold and other safety training. Our goal is to make the registration path clear, help students avoid taking the wrong course, and connect related training so students can move efficiently toward the card, renewal or professional requirement they actually need.
Queens Training Location
Tribune Training Academy is located at 40-38 75th Street, Elmhurst, Queens, NY 11373. Call ahead for the current course schedule and delivery format.
Need Help Choosing?
Call (718) 790-2664 and tell us what card, license, employer requirement or course title you were given. We can help you identify the appropriate Tribune course before you register.
Common Questions
Is this an SST elective?
Yes, Excavation Safety can be used as an elective course within applicable SST pathways.
Is one hour enough for competent-person qualification?
No. This is awareness/elective training and does not by itself establish competent-person qualification.
Does this course cover trench rescue?
No. Rescue planning is a separate specialized topic.
How do I register?
Call Tribune Training Academy at (718) 790-2664 for the current schedule and registration options. If a verified online Virtola checkout exists for this exact course, the page will also show a direct online-registration button.
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Current Training Information
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IACET / CEU Course Information
This learning event is maintained under Tribune Training Academy's continuing education quality and completion requirements.
Learning Outcomes
- Remember: Identify excavation, trench, overexcavation, spoil, surcharge, underpinning and the designated responsible roles.
- Understand: Explain soil failure mechanisms, system functions and the effects of water, loading and adjoining foundations.
- Select / Determine: Select appropriate actions for inspections, utility discoveries, changing conditions, access and emergency response.
- Analyze: Analyze an excavation change to identify interacting plan, infrastructure, access and support issues requiring review.
Construction workers can encounter rapidly changing ground, utility and neighboring-structure hazards. This specialized elective addresses recognition and timely referral before exposure, using the supplied source curriculum and current DOB and OSHA references.
Construction workers and supervisors who need SST specialized-elective awareness of ground failure, protective systems, adjoining structures, utilities, atmospheric hazards, safe access and responsible review of excavation changes.
No engineering or competent-person qualification is required. Learners must understand the English instruction and have course audio or captions and a suitable self-paced learning environment. This awareness event does not authorize design, inspection appointments, rigging or excavation rescue.
English self-paced narrated lessons using 30 illustrated slides, a documented NYC underpinning-failure case, original hypothetical choices with explanations, verbal learning checks, an accessible learner guide and a four-stage excavation checklist choice activity with corrective feedback. No physical demonstration, writing assignment, roleplay or live participation is required.
Final Exam
70%
Learners who score below 70% review the relevant narrated lessons, captions and guided activity explanations before the second attempt. The final exam allows two attempts of 30 minutes each. Tribune Training Academy provides support for unresolved learning or access needs; additional attempts require the applicable authorized review.
Complete the required self-paced instruction and guided choice practice, satisfy the existing identity, participation and course-time controls, and pass the official 25-question final exam at 70% or higher (at least 18 correct). Allow 30 minutes and two attempts. Verified completion earns 0.1 CEU and one SST credit. This awareness event does not qualify learners to design protective systems, act as competent persons, perform rigging or conduct excavation rescue.
Learners are invited to complete a post-course evaluation addressing course relevance, clarity, instructional effectiveness, materials, confidence in understanding and selecting appropriate responses based on course concepts, and opportunities for improvement.