EM385-1-1 8 Hour Refresher

Each individual lesson takes no more than 10 minutes and you can stop and resume the course as many times as you want. The course time for the EM385 8-hour is 8 hours – this is the minimum time required to complete the course. If you are completing the course in smaller sittings and revising for assessments the course may take significantly longer.

If the certificate is not accepted by your employer for some reason we do offer a full money back guarantee on the price of purchased courses within 30 days of completion. 

We offer online verification of all certificates via QR code scan or direct verification web link. Simply give your employer, or anyone else, the link written on the back of your certificate wallet card, and your unique certificate number, and they can instantly verify your name, unique certificate ID, the course you passed, and the issue and expiry dates of your certificate and the content covered in the EM 385 training.

Absolutely. Our courses are designed with a ‘mobile first’ approach, you can use any Apple or Android device – all content will display perfectly.

Yes. Enrollment is automated in the checkout process and you can commence the training immediately.

Course certifications for 40 Hour, 24 Hour & 16 Hour courses have no expiry. 8 Hour certifications expire one year after issue because EM385-1-1 standards stipulate this as an annual training requirement for SSHO’s. 

Our EM385 training courses do not have a lengthy final exam at the end. We use targeted quiz assessments at the end of each module to check and reinforce what you learned. In fact, you will be taking MORE assessments than would be usual in a ‘final exam’ model, but you will not get overwhelmed as each assessment relates directly to what you have just studied. You must pass quizzes with an 80% score to proceed through the course, and pass every quiz in order to fully complete the course. You will learn everything you need to pass in each module and you can retake each quiz as many times as required.

No – in fact no online course actually meets these requirements. Ultimately, employers are responsible for all hands-on safety training. Safety education is a three-phase process and seeks to ensure employees gain three different things: adequate knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Collectively these are known as (KSAs):

1. Instruction to gain knowledge;
2. Hands-on practice to gain skills;
3. Evaluation of skills on the job to determine abilities.

Our modern online learning courses can be used to satisfy the knowledge component of the training. But, those topics that require hands-on practice using equipment to gain skills (for example confined space entry and fall protection), must be taught by an employer-designated competent person for the specific type of equipment the employees will be using on the job.

To satisfy the hands-on training requirement, employers will have their employees take our online training to satisfy the knowledge component, and then finish up the hands-on component of the training in the workplace.

Whichever method is used – online, instructor led or both –  the employer is always held accountable by USACE/OSHA to ensure employees are provided opportunity to practice with the equipment in the learning environment to gain adequate skills.

After the employer is satisfied that employees have gained adequate skills, employees must be evaluated on-the-job to verify they have gained adequate abilities to properly use equipment and perform tasks.

Yes. All courses and assessments were built from scratch to address the 2024 manual revision which contains substantial changes.