OSHA training requirements in Nevada

What the rule says

Statute

NRS 618.983

Who it covers

Construction workers, including supervisory employees

What it requires

OSHA-10 completion card for construction workers; OSHA-30 completion card for supervisory employees

Deadline

Within 15 days of being hired

If you do not comply

Under NRS 618.987, the employer must suspend or terminate a worker who does not present a valid card in time

What else applies here

• Nevada is one of the few states where the training itself is free: the state's own consultation program, SCATS, runs 10 and 30-hour OSHA courses at no charge.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 1, 2026: “SCATS Offers Free 10 & 30 Hour OSHA Training”

• The mandate is not limited to construction. Nevada law extends it to four industries: construction, conventions, cannabis, and entertainment.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 1, 2026: “There are 4 industries in the state of Nevada that are required by the Nevada Revised statutes (NRS or state law) to obtain OSHA 10 or 30 hour cards.”

• Whether you need the 10 or the 30 is decided by authority, not by job title. Nevada defines a supervisory employee by what the person can do to other employees, so a working foreman with hiring or discipline authority needs OSHA-30 even if nobody calls them a manager.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 8, 2026: “Supervisory employee means any person having authority in the interest of the employer to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline other employees”

• Supervisory employees get the same 15-day clock, for the longer course. The deadline runs from the hire date, not from the day the course starts.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 8, 2026: “Not later than 15 days after the date a supervisory employee is hired, the supervisory employee must obtain a completion card for an OSHA-30 course”

• Missing the deadline is not a warning. The statute does not give the employer discretion: it says the employer shall suspend or terminate the worker.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 8, 2026: “If a construction worker other than a supervisory employee fails to present his or her employer with a current and valid completion card for an OSHA-10 course not later than 15 days after being hired, the employer shall suspend or terminate his or her employment.”

• Nevada does not accept any course. The class has to be taught by a trainer the federal Department of Labor authorizes, which is why the provider list matters here more than in a state with no mandate.

  Nevada SCATS, Division of Industrial Relations (Department of Business and Industry), read August 8, 2026: “All classes must be taught by a trainer authorized to do so by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.”

From your employer asking to the card in your hand

1. Work out which one you are. Nevada splits the requirement by authority over other employees, not by title: if you can hire, assign or discipline, you are a supervisory employee and you need OSHA-30. Everyone else on the site needs OSHA-10.
2. Count the 15 days from your hire date. Not from your first shift, not from the day you enroll. The card has to be in your employer's hands inside that window.
3. Ask the state before you pay. Nevada runs the 10 and 30-hour courses at no charge through SCATS. What the state does not publish on its site is whether its own free course ends in the federal DOL completion card the statute asks for, so confirm that point with SCATS rather than assuming it.
4. If you buy instead, buy from a DOL-authorized trainer. Nevada requires it explicitly, so the OSHA-authorized list is not a quality filter here, it is the law.
5. Hand the completion card to your employer inside the 15 days. If you do not, the statute requires them to suspend or terminate you, and it does not leave that to their judgment.