OSHA 10 · General industry
Plant, shop, and warehouse crews use the general industry 10-hour, not the construction card.
If you work in a factory, mill, warehouse, distribution center, or maintenance shop, the outreach card people ask for is OSHA 10 general industry. The construction 10-hour is a different industry procedure. Showing up with the wrong card wastes a week and still leaves the gate guard shaking their head.
Take general industry outreach training if your employer wants the DOL card for a plant-floor or warehouse role, or if a customer requires it for contractors working inside an operating facility.
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Who this card is for
Machine operators, material handlers, mechanics, electricians assigned to a plant, sanitation crews, warehouse pickers, and the supervisors who walk those floors. Contractors who service equipment under 1910 rules often need it even if their other jobs are construction.
Forklift work is general industry for most warehouses (29 CFR 1910.178). The 10-hour may mention powered industrial trucks as an elective. It does not replace the hands-on evaluation your employer must still do before you drive.
Supervisors and safety leads often take the 30-hour general industry class. Same program, more depth, still outreach — not an OSHA credential you hang as a license.
What the general industry 10-hour has to cover
Required topics include an introduction to OSHA, walking-working surfaces (including fall protection in plants), exit routes and fire, electrical, personal protective equipment, and hazard communication. That is the core six hours. Electives commonly include lockout-tagout, machine guarding, powered industrial vehicles, confined spaces, and materials handling.
You will hear 1910 numbers, not 1926. Walking surfaces in a plant trigger at different heights than a construction deck. Lockout is 1910.147, not a toolbox talk you invent on the spot. If your class never mentions energy isolation or forklifts, you still need that training from your employer before you put hands on a press or climb on a truck.
Online outreach follows the same clock as the classroom
Online OSHA 10 general industry is available from OSHA-authorized providers. Self-paced online outreach is limited to those authorized platforms. A live authorized trainer can still teach in a room or by other allowed methods; they cannot slap an asynchronous recording online and call it the program.
Student contact time is capped at 7.5 hours per calendar day, so the 10-hour class takes at least two days.
Expect paced modules, quizzes, and identity checks. Finish with an authorized provider and that provider’s process issues the Department of Labor outreach card. OSHA does not sell seats and does not endorse a particular vendor.
Do not confuse the card with the program you actually work under
Your plant still needs an energy-control procedure, a hazard-communication program, and powered-industrial-truck training that matches the trucks you drive. The 10-hour is how many employers prove you have seen the map. It is not the map.
If you split time between a shutdown (construction-like work) and production, ask which card the host employer wants. Bring both if they will not pick one.
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Related: OSHA 10 construction · Lockout-tagout