Jobsite Safety Fundamentals — Less Than Basics
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JOBSITE SAFETY FUNDAMENTALS

Seventeen chapters on the hazards most likely to injure or kill on a construction site — with the governing requirement stated, cited, and checkable.

17 Chapters
24 Slides
48 Citations
Full Citation Index

The Claim

Every regulatory figure in this deck was verified against the published standard at osha.gov.

No number appears from memory or from a secondary source. The full citation index is printed in the deck itself — it is there so a safety manager can check the work, and so can a plaintiff's attorney.

Verification — audited August 15, 2026

All 48 citations in the printed index were checked against the published text at osha.gov. All 48 matched.

Fourteen standards: 29 CFR 1926.95, .96, .102, .1053, .451, .501, .502, .651, .652, .1153, .1204, Subpart P App B — and 29 CFR 1910.95, .134, .1200.

Chapter 17 teaches heat under the General Duty Clause because there is no federal heat standard. Confirmed current as of this date: OSHA's heat rulemaking is still in post-hearing review, with the comment period closed October 30, 2025.

That is the entire product thesis. Safety training is bought as liability assurance, and a wrong citation on a safety slide is not a typo — it is the one defect that destroys the whole value of the thing. So the citations are the feature, and they are printed where you can audit them.

What's Covered

01Ladders
02Eye Protection
03Electrical
04PPE and High-Visibility
05Foot Protection
06Hearing
07Yard and Storage
08Handrails and Guardrails
09Confined Space
10Fall Systems — Harness Fit & Swing Stage
11Gloves
12Trenching and Shoring
13Hazard Communication
14Respiratory Protection
15Respirable Crystalline Silica
16Scaffolding
17Heat

Cited to 29 CFR 1926 (construction) and 29 CFR 1910 (general industry), noted per chapter. Where the two differ — and on fall-protection trigger heights and confined space they differ badly — the deck says so on the slide instead of picking one and hoping.

Sample Slides

Unretouched exports from the delivered file. This is the actual deck, not a mockup of one.

Slide: What this is, and what it is not
Scope slide — stated before any content, not buried in a footer.
Slide: Chapter 9, Confined Space
Chapter 9 — Confined Space. Life-safety chapters run dark with a red block.
Slide: Chapter 7, Yard and Storage
Chapter 7 — Yard and Storage.
Slide: Chapter 12, Trenching and Shoring
Chapter 12 — Trenching and Shoring.
Slide: Chapter 13, Hazard Communication
Chapter 13 — Hazard Communication.
Slide: citation index
Citation index — printed in the deck so the work can be checked.

What It Is, What It Isn't

This is

  • Awareness training across seventeen hazard areas
  • The governing requirement stated and cited per chapter
  • A printed citation index for audit
  • Deliverable as PPTX and PDF — yours to run in-house
  • Editable, so your site's own program can be layered on top

This is not

  • A certification or a card
  • A replacement for your written safety program
  • A replacement for your competent person
  • Hands-on qualification for any regulated task
  • Legal advice

If the deck and your site program conflict, your site program wins. Follow it — then ask why the two differ. That question has caught real gaps more than once.

Who Built It

Jeff Melvin — Less Than Basics. Not a curriculum vendor. The chapters come from work that was actually done:

CPR / First Aid held 2017–2019, now lapsed — listed here because leaving it out would be the same kind of quiet edit this product exists to avoid.

Get The Deck

Delivered as PPTX and PDF. Tell me your trade and your site conditions and I'll tell you straight whether the seventeen chapters cover you or whether you need something built.

Request It

An on-camera narrated version is in production. It is not finished, so it is not for sale yet.