Fire Watch and Hot Work (Cal/OSHA) Online Training

This online course is the classroom part of training for California construction workers who do hot work or serve as a fire watch. It follows Title 8 (8 CCR 1920, 1922, 1924, 1743, 1740, 1950 to 1955 and 4848), and it covers the fire extinguisher education that 8 CCR 6151(g) and the Cal/OSHA construction pocket guide point to, along with confined space hot work cross checks.

What you learn

• The California rules for hot work and fire watch
• Preventing fires from hot work: survey, clear, shield and cover
• The fire watch
• Position, sides and duration of the fire watch
• Fire extinguishers: ready, rated and the right type
• Fight or leave, P.A.S.S. and live practice
• Gas cylinders: moving, storing and placing them
• Calling for help and getting out
• Hot work in confined and enclosed spaces: the cross check
• A final lesson listing what to review with your supervisor at your company

How it works

• You take the course online, at your own pace, on a phone or a computer.
• The final exam opens after you finish the lessons.
• Each topic lesson ends with practice questions that do not count toward your score.
• The final exam has 25 questions drawn at random. You need 80 percent to pass, and you get 3 attempts.
• When you pass the final exam, you finish the online classroom part. M Squared Safety Solutions, Inc. issues your certificate of completion after it reviews your employer's signed hands-on checklist. The certificate expires 1 year after it is issued.
• This course is also available in Spanish: Vigilancia de incendios y trabajo en caliente (Cal/OSHA): capacitación en línea.

The hands-on part, at your workplace

• This product is the online classroom part. Your employer evaluates your hands-on skills at your workplace with the M Squared hands-on checklist: download the checklist (PDF).
• Your employer emails the signed checklist to matt@msquaredsafety.com and monica@msquaredsafety.com. You upload nothing.
• M Squared reviews the checklist, then marks the course complete and your certificate is issued.

Questions

Call an M Squared trainer at 949-954-6581, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific time. A trainer answers in English and Spanish.

Your employer's part

This online course does not replace the training your employer must give on your own job: site-specific training, and hands-on practice and evaluation where the rule requires them.

What this course does not do

The California construction rules have no hot work permit rule and no fire watch rule; the course says so, and your employer sets those for your site. The course gives the extinguisher education part. Your employer completes your hands-on practice, including a live discharge with your employer's own extinguisher, and confirms it with the M Squared hands-on checklist. The course does not teach arc welding equipment, eye protection or fumes. This is the Cal/OSHA course, and federal OSHA's rules differ in several places. A federal OSHA version of this course is sold separately. If you work in another state, that state may have different or more stringent rules.