Migna Safety Solutions

Construction · Self-Paced · about 3.5 hrs total

Fall Protection Competent Person

Advanced · Course MIG-CON-301

The competent-person body of knowledge for fall protection in construction under 29 CFR 1926 Subpart M.

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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.

The next step beyond awareness. This course delivers the competent-person body of knowledge for fall protection in construction: the duty to have fall protection and the 6-foot trigger, passive and active systems and the specs a competent person verifies, the ABCDs of personal fall arrest, the clearance and swing-fall math that decides whether a system saves a life or lets a worker hit the ground, equipment inspection and removal-from-service criteria, prompt rescue planning, and running a fall protection program with real stop-work authority. Read this before you begin: a course cannot MAKE you a competent person. Under OSHA a competent person is DESIGNATED BY THE EMPLOYER — based on training, hands-on experience, AND the authority to identify hazards and take prompt corrective action, including stopping work. This course teaches that body of knowledge and, on passing, issues a Migna certificate that SUPPORTS your employer's designation; it does not create the designation by itself. It is also distinct from a QUALIFIED person — typically an engineer — who designs anchorages and horizontal lifelines. Issues a Migna certificate of completion with a publicly verifiable certificate number.

What you are buying

180 min
Enforced seat time
7
Modules
50
Lessons
14
Interactive exercises
51
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 180 minutes of training means it. The 204 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

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 33 published standards

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

  • 1926.451(g)
  • 1926.453
  • 1926.501
  • 1926.501(b)
  • 1926.501(b)(1)
  • 1926.501(b)(10)
  • 1926.501(b)(15)
  • 1926.501(b)(4)
  • 1926.501(c)
  • 1926.502
  • 1926.502(b)
  • 1926.502(c)
  • 1926.502(d)
  • 1926.502(d)(15)
  • 1926.502(d)(16)
  • 1926.502(d)(19)
  • 1926.502(d)(20)
  • 1926.502(d)(21)
  • 1926.502(d)(8)
  • 1926.502(e)
  • 1926.502(f)
  • 1926.502(g)
  • 1926.502(h)
  • 1926.502(i)
  • 1926.502(j)
  • 1926.502(k)
  • 1926.503
  • 1926.760
  • 29 CFR 1926.501(b)
  • Subpart L
  • Subpart M
  • Subpart R
  • Subpart X

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • State the two-part definition of a competent person and distinguish the competent, qualified and authorized person roles
  • Determine which paragraph of 29 CFR 1926.501(b) governs a task and which protective systems it permits
  • Evaluate an anchorage against the criteria in 1926.502(d)(15) and identify anchorages that fail them
  • Calculate the fall clearance required for a given personal fall arrest configuration and select equipment that fits the available distance
  • Inspect fall protection equipment and state the conditions that remove it from service permanently
  • Apply the standard to field situations where production pressure and the correct decision conflict

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: The Competent Person Role & Fall Hazards

    • Competent vs. Qualified Person
    • The Duty to Have Fall Protection

  2. Module 2: Systems & the Personal Fall Arrest System

    • Passive and Active Systems
    • The ABCDs of Personal Fall Arrest

  3. Module 3: Clearance, Inspection & Program

    • Doing the Math That Saves Lives
    • Inspection, Rescue, and Running the Program

  4. Module 4: The Duty to Have Fall Protection, Surface by Surface

    • Where the Six-Foot Trigger Applies, and Where It Does Not
    • Guardrails, Covers, Nets and the Systems That Are Not Worn
    • Warning Lines, Monitors and Controlled Access Zones

  5. Module 5: Personal Fall Arrest: Forces, Anchorages and Clearance

    • What 1926.502(d) Requires of the System and of Each Part
    • Clearance: the Arithmetic That Decides Whether the System Works
    • Ladders, Scaffolds, Lifts and Steel: When Subpart M Is Not the Rule

  6. Module 6: Inspection, Removal From Service, and Running the Program

    • Inspecting Equipment Before Each Use, and Periodically
    • Supervising the Work, and the Fall Protection Plan
    • Falling Objects, Edges and Everything Under the Work

  7. Module 7: Worked Field Scenarios and the Limits of This Certificate

    • Four Decisions at Height
    • What This Course Did, and What It Did Not