Safe Practices for the Home Inspector Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online Safe Practice for the Home Inspector course. This course teaches the inspector to be safe on an inspection. It includes a review of personal protection equipment, ladder use, client safety, and what to do if an injury occurs. Also, this course addresses the soft skills of running a successful inspection business, such as the inspector's basic tool kit, document preparation, and appropriate attire. And, in keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing Education, this course is open and free to all (even non-members), and can be taken again and again, without limit.
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The Safe Practices for the Home Inspector course includes:
- 36 sections;
- many original graphics and diagrams;
- 4 quizzes;
- a 35-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading;
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion; and
- accreditations and state approvals.
The course covers the following topics:
Introduction to Inspection Safety:
- Safety in the Workplace
- A Brief Word Regarding OSHA's Role
- Inspector Liability
Basic Tools and Tips:
- Inspections Signage
- Personal Protection Equipment
- Tools of the Trade
- Tools of the Business
- Appearance as an Asset
- Avoiding Common Back Injuries
Confined Spaces:
- What is a Confined Space?
- Permit-Required Confined Spaces
- Attics
- Crawlspaces, Cellars and Other Confined Spaces
- Spiders, Snakes and Live Animals
- Unseen Hazards
Ladder Operation and Safety:
- What is a Ladder?
- OSHA's Requirements for Ladders
- Background on Ladder Safety
- Protecting Yourself
- Inspecting a Ladder
- Ladder Sizing and Ratings
- Ladders and Electricity
- Setting Up a Ladder
- Review
What to Do in Case of an Injury:
- General First-Aid Information and Disclaimer
- What To Do If You Fall From a Ladder
- Skull Fractures
- Closed-Head Injuries
- Broken Bones
- Snake Bites
- Animal Bites
- Bee Stings
- Minor Cuts and Scrapes
- Puncture Wounds
- Severe Bleeding
- Electrical Burns
Upon completion of this course and passing of the 35-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log. It counts as four InterNACHI
Continuing Education hours.
Non-members and consumers may take the course. It is open and free to all.
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Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads properly and quickly on old computers, even with dial-up Internet connections.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and photos.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence, which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online continuing education log.