The “OSHA 30 card” is the course-completion card for the 30-hour class of OSHA’s Outreach Training Program. Like the 10-hour class , it is voluntary under federal law — “this is a voluntary program and does not meet the training requirements for any OSHA standards.” — and becomes mandatory only where a state statute, a public contract, or an employer requires it.
Who the 30-hour class is for
OSHA’s program overview draws the line between the two classes by audience, not seniority: “The 30-hour training program is intended to provide workers with some safety responsibility a greater depth and variety of training.” Nevada’s statutes draw a related but NARROWER line in their own defined terms — each of its four mandate programs (below) requires the 10-hour card of workers and the 30-hour card of “supervisory employees”; all four chapters define that term in the same terms — the cannabis chapter substituting “employee” and “cannabis establishment” for “person” and “employer” — and in each it turns on whether supervisory authority “occupies a significant portion of the employee’s workday”.
Card mechanics
Everything about the card itself works like the 10-hour card, and is stated on the same OSHA FAQ:
- Trainers must issue the card within 90 days of class completion.
- No FEDERAL register exists — OSHA keeps no records of outreach classes. Verification runs through the issuing trainer, the QR code on plastic cards (it reaches the OTI Education Center that processed the card, per OSHA’s FAQ), and, for Nevada’s construction program, a statutory public completion registry (NRS 618.977; the other three Nevada programs require provider registries only; URL not verified here, so not linked).
- Replacement runs through the trainer, only within five years of the class, once per student per class.
- Federally the card does not expire (OSHA’s FAQ says so for all four industries) — but Nevada’s entertainment and convention-services program cards expire 5 years after issuance by state statute (NRS 618.9911(4), 618.9929(3)); details on the OSHA 10 page .
- A 10-hour card can be extended to a 30-hour card only by the same trainer within six months, with the 10-hour card returned (details ).
Where the card is required by law
Federally the class is voluntary — the mandates below are state statutes, each read from the state legislature’s own publisher on the date shown. Most apply to public-works projects over a dollar threshold, not to all construction; the scope column is the part to read carefully.
| State | Who must have it | Scope | Statute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada (construction) | Every SUPERVISORY employee on a construction site, within 15 days of hire; without a current card the employer “shall suspend or terminate” employment (NRS 618.987(2)) | All construction work, public and private — no dollar threshold; same statutory carve-outs as the worker mandate (NRS 618.970, 618.957(2)); non-supervisory workers need OSHA 10 instead | NRS 618.983(2) |
| Nevada (entertainment) | Supervisory employees, within 15 days of beginning work on a site; the under-15-consecutive-days exemption applies (618.9911(1)); the whole program does not apply “to a volunteer or any other person who is not paid to perform work on a site” (618.9907) | Entertainment industry — GENERAL-INDUSTRY OSHA-30, card expires 5 years after issuance (618.9911(4)) | NRS 618.9911(3) |
| Nevada (convention services) | Supervisory employees, within 15 days of hire; volunteers/unpaid persons are outside the program (618.9926), and the “worker” definition excludes persons whose primary occupation is catering, janitorial services, photography, security, or floral decoration (618.9925(1)) | Convention services — card expires 5 years after issuance (618.9929(3)); accepts a construction-industry OR general-industry course (618.9921/.9922) | NRS 618.9929(2) |
| Nevada (cannabis) | Supervisory employees of cannabis establishments, within 1 YEAR of hire; establishment pays; suspension/termination without a current card (618.9949); “employee” excludes persons whose primary occupation is photography, media, marketing or legal services, and shareholders/officers/board members without an active day-to-day role (618.9942(2)) | Cannabis establishments — no expiry subsection in the statute; GENERAL-INDUSTRY courses only (618.9943/.9944) | NRS 618.9948(2) |
Statutory exemptions are summarized in the who-column where the statute states them — they are part of the rule, not fine print (Nevada’s entertainment and convention programs exclude volunteers and, for convention work, several whole occupations). Always read the linked text before concluding coverage either way.
Every row is verified against the official statute text as of the date shown. This is a verified list, not a proof of absence elsewhere: a state’s absence means we have not verified a mandate there from an official source — the table only ever grows from fetched statutes, never from secondhand lists.
Searched 2026-08-07: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota, Delaware, Maryland, California, Texas and Florida — no statewide OSHA-outreach mandate verifiable from an official source was found for any of them. A state joins the table only when its statute is fetched from the official publisher.
Where city and county law requires it
State statutes are not the whole story — city and county codes are a separate layer, and the three below are each verified against the jurisdiction’s own official code text. (New York City’s older rule 1 RCNY § 3321-01 was repealed in June 2025; the Building Code section is the live requirement.)
| Jurisdiction | Who must have it | Scope | Provision |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City | An OSHA 30-hour class satisfied the first-phase worker requirement outright (BC 3321.1); the Supervisor SST card requires a “minimum of 62 hours”, and DOB’s compliance notice lists the OSHA 30-Hour Class among its components, alongside 8-hour fall prevention, 8-hour Chapter 33 and further prescribed hours | Public AND private permitted work meeting the site-safety trigger | NYC Building Code § 3321 (Local Law 196 of 2017) |
| Philadelphia | “A Site Safety Manager with OSHA 30 training must be designated by the general contractor and present during the construction or demolition of a Major Building” (A-1001.5) | Major Buildings, public and private | Phila. Code § A-1001.5 |
Related
- OSHA 10 card — the entry-level class, and the card mechanics in full
- Forklift certification — the mandatory employer duty an outreach card does not satisfy
Sources
- OSHA Outreach Training Program landing — voluntary-program statement — verified 2026-08-07.
- OSHA Outreach program overview — 30-hour audience definition — verified 2026-08-07.
- OSHA Outreach official FAQ — 90-day issuance, replacement, 10-to-30 upgrade — verified 2026-08-07.
- NYC 2022 Building Code ch. 33 (BC 3321, Site Safety Training) — the verified city-layer example — verified 2026-08-07.
- NYC DOB SST compliance notice — how OSHA hours count toward the SST card — verified 2026-08-07.
- Philadelphia Code § A-1001.4/.5 — worker OSHA 10 duty and Major Building Site Safety Manager — verified 2026-08-07.
- NRS 618.983(2) (Nevada (construction)) — state OSHA-outreach mandate, read from the official publisher. Verified 2026-08-07.
- NRS 618.9911(3) (Nevada (entertainment)) — state OSHA-outreach mandate, read from the official publisher. Verified 2026-08-07.
- NRS 618.9929(2) (Nevada (convention services)) — state OSHA-outreach mandate, read from the official publisher. Verified 2026-08-07.
- NRS 618.9948(2) (Nevada (cannabis)) — state OSHA-outreach mandate, read from the official publisher. Verified 2026-08-07.