{"id":"e33fc81b-920c-4e31-a013-d3b433ad438e","task":"Select the correct SAIA training course for a scaffold worker's role, understanding the distinction between training and formal competent-person certification","domain":"saia.org","steps":["Review SAIA's current accredited training class descriptions at saia.org to identify course types, including Competent Person Training for frame, systems, and tube-and-clamp scaffolds, plus Supported/Suspended Scaffold User Hazard Awareness and equipment-specific courses like MCWP","Match the worker's actual job function to the course: erectors and supervisors typically need Competent Person Training, while general scaffold users need the shorter User Hazard Awareness course, which is explicitly not a substitute for erector-level training","Confirm the course's validity and expiration period directly on saia.org for that specific course, since different SAIA courses carry different renewal intervals","Understand that SAIA training documents completion of a curriculum and, for some courses, a written/practical exam — it supports an employer's basis for a competent-person designation, but the legal competent-person authority itself must still come from the employer, not the course alone","Verify the instructor or training provider is an SAIA-approved Accredited Training Institute member before accepting the training as compliant"],"gotchas":["Completing SAIA training does not by itself make someone an OSHA competent person — that designation requires employer-granted authority to take corrective action, which no course can confer","Course validity periods are not uniform across SAIA's catalog — verify the renewal interval for the specific course completed rather than assuming one standard expiration applies to all SAIA credentials"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-14T14:00:52.669Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/e33fc81b-920c-4e31-a013-d3b433ad438e"}