Migna Safety Solutions

Construction · Self-paced online · ~1.05 hours (estimated)

Excavation Competent Person

Advanced · Course MIG-CON-302

The competent-person body of knowledge for excavation and trenching under 29 CFR 1926 Subpart P.

This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

This is the deep end of trench safety — the knowledge an excavation competent person is expected to carry into the field every day: soil classification and testing, the design limits of sloping, benching, shoring, and shielding, the daily inspection routine, and the hazards that kill workers who survived the walls. Read this plainly: no course can MAKE you a competent person. Under OSHA, the EMPLOYER designates the competent person, based on training, experience, AND the authority to identify hazards and take prompt corrective action — including stopping work and pulling people out. This course teaches the competent-person body of knowledge and, on completion, issues a Migna certificate that SUPPORTS that designation. It does not create the designation by itself, and it does not grant authority your employer hasn't given you. Issues a Migna certificate of completion.

What you are buying

50 min
Enforced seat time
3
Modules
18
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
27
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 50 minutes of training means it.

This certificate does not expire on a clock

The standard behind this course sets no fixed retraining interval, so we do not print one. Retraining is triggered by events instead — a new hazard, a changed process, or an observed deficiency. Your employer or insurer may set their own interval, which is a real obligation but not a federal one.

Written against 5 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1926.650(b)
  • 1926.651(c)(2)
  • 1926.651(k)(2)
  • 1926.652
  • Subpart P

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: The Competent Person Role & Soil Mechanics

    • What the Competent Person Is — and Isn't
    • Soil Classification and Testing

  2. Module 2: Protective Systems

    • Sloping and Benching
    • Shoring and Shielding

  3. Module 3: Hazards, Access & Program

    • The Other Trench Killers
    • Putting It Together on Site