On May 3rd, 4th, and 5th Jim Dipelesi attended classes conducted by OSHA Compliance Officer Anthony Valenti, Compliance Assistant Specialist Thomas J. McCarthy and Instructor Myles from the construction industry.

Classes were conducted at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at the Rutgers University Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. Most of the people attending were safety officers from firms such as Boswell Engineering, Zurich Services Corporation "Risk Engineering" and Wayne Management Inc. to name a few.

Jim was in class with Vincent Friscia who had to take his 502 update. Vincent conducts the 10 hour and the 30 hour Construction Outreach Training at the New York City District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College at 395 Hudson Street, in New York City.

To stay current Construction Outreach Trainers must take an OSHA 502 Update every four years. Four years ago Jim took his training at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. Trainers are authorized to conduct 10- and 30-hour Construction outreach training in accordance with guidelines provided by the OSHA Office of Training and Education.

Each year their are 6000 workplace fatalaties, 6 million non-fatal workplace injuries. In 1970 their were 14,000 worker deaths. Due in part to programs like this, since 1971 fatalaties have decreased by more than half, injuries and illness have decreased by 40%. The cost to U.S. business is over 125 billion dollars.

At the end of the class 13 Outreach Trainers took the final examination and all passed.