Training Center Schedule

HOW TO APPLY
Classes are open to construction laborers who are employed by contractors contributing to the Training Fund and member of locals; 113 Milwaukee, 140 LaCrosse, 237 Kenosha, 317 Eau Claire, 392 Waukesha, 464 Madison, 539 Green Bay, 931 Appleton, 1050 Superior, 1086 Fond du Lac, 1359 Wausau, 1407 Wisconsin Rapids and 1440 Janesville.

Application forms are available at your local union office or from the Training Center and enclosed in this publication. Complete the application form and return it to your local union. The local union office will verify your application form and forward it to the Training Center.

The Training Center will mail a 'Class Acceptance' complete with all the details, (dates, location, map, etc) to your home address, 2-3 weeks before the class start date. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please notify the Training Center at 1-800-275-6939.

LODGING
Laborers are housed at a motel and commute daily to the Training Center or may commute each day from home if it is within an hour or less driving distance. There are two persons to each room. Rooms are paid by the Training Center. No pets are allowed at the motel or the Training Center.

TRANSPORTATION
Laborers are reimbursed for mileage to and from the Training Center, (one time, each way, each week). Commuters are paid $15.00 per day.

MEALS
We do not provide meals at the Training Center. Laborers receive a daily meal allowance. Bring your lunch for the noon meal. Coffee is provided. A large cooler to store food, microwaves to heat food, and snack and soda machines are available. Paper plates, napkins, and silverware are provided.

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
You may continue to receive Wisconsin unemployment benefits when taking classes since you are available for work while at the Training Center, (union referral, contractor call, etc.).

Laborers ARE available for work when attending classes. If you are called back to work while attending classes you will stop training, return to work and complete the class at a later date.

ENVIRONMENTAL COURSES

Asbestos Abatement Worker
1. March 22-25 - 4 days
2. April 12-15

Asbestos Abatement Supervisor
1. April 19-23 - 5 days
32/40 hours - Asbestos definitions, characteristics, health effects, personal protective equipment, work practices, personal hygiene, safety hazards, medical/air monitoring, regulations, respiratory protection, legal liability, insurance, contract specs., supervisory techniques, recordkeeping, state of the art equipment.

Hazardous Waste Worker
80 hours (includes weekend)
1. March 16-23
Health & Safety information, hazard recognition engineering controls, personal protective equipment, site safety plans, decontamination procedures, safe use of field equipment, sampling techniques, rights and responsibilities of worker, emergency procedures, medical surveillance, confined space, underground storage tanks, EPA regulations, principles of toxicology.

Lead Abatement Worker
1. March 29-31 - 3 days
2. April 5-7
This course required before you can take Lead Abatement Supervusir course.

Lead Abatement Supervisor
1. May 3-5 - 3 days
32/40 hours - Safe work practices, health risks, lead related diseases, precautionary measures, personal protective devices, prevention of contamination, hazard communication, medical monitoring, and supervisory techniques.

ENVIRONMENTAL REFRESHER DATES

Asbestos Worker & Supervisor Refresher
1. Friday, January 8 - #317
2. Friday, March 5 - WLTC
3. Friday, April 16 - #1407
4. Saturday, May 1 - #113
The State of Wisconsin requires you to take an 8 hour refresher annually. You do not have to pay the fee if you are not working in asbestos removal.

Asbestos Worker Refresher
1. Saturday, January 16- #113
2. Friday, January 22 - #464

Asbestos Supervisor Refresher
1. Saturday, January 30- #113
2. Friday, April 30 - WLTC

Hazardous Waste Worker Refresher
1. Tuesday, January 5- #464
2. Thursday, January 7 - #317
3. Thursday, February 4 - WLTC
4. Friday, February 5 - #464
5. Friday, February 19- #1359
6. Saturday, February 27 - #113
A Hazardous Waste Worker Refresher Course is required annually. There is no fee required at this time for renewal.

GENERAL INDUSTRY COURSES
Courses listed below are offered upon request by contractors or local unions

Site Safety Specialist
(3 days)
1. Open
2. Open
Construction safety, site safety inspections, preventative maintenance, tool box meetings.

Traffic Control and Flagging
(1 day)
1. Open
2. Open
3. Open
Work zone safety manual, hands on with miniature roadway models set up.

Trench Safety & Response
(2 days)
1. Open
2. Open
OSHA Subpart P, hands on demonstrations, trench box, tight sheeting, hydraulic/timber shoring.

Rough Terrain Forklift Safety
(1 day)
1. Open
2. Open
3. Open
MCAA Safety Course, exam and certificate.

Safety Seminars for Company Personnel or Local Unions.
(2-4 hours)

Scaffold User/Builder Refresher
(1 day)
1. Open
2. Open
3. Open
4. Open
5. Open
Working safety on scaffolds, OSHA standards scaffold fall protection, general ladder requirements, electrical hazards and the loading of scaffold.

OSHA Construction Safety
(10 hour Certified Construction Safety Course)
1. March 9-10 - WLTC
2. Open
3. Open

Industrial Fire Watch Training
(1 day)
Held only at:
Fox Valley Technical College
Regional Fire Training Center
Neenah, WI

1. Dates open - upon request
OSHA Compliance, hot work permits, portable fire extinguishers, safety guidelines and procedures, alarm systems, hazard communication, demonstration/fire department.

Commercial Drivers License (CDL) Preparation for DOT written exam.
(4 hours)

CONSTRUCTION COURSES

Pipelaying/Laser Beam
1. January 4-29 - 4 weeks
2. February 1-26
OSHA job safety, protective equipment, Crane signals, compaction, soils, transit/builders level, air tools, pipelaying, concrete, ductile iron, PVC pipe fusing, manhole building, trenching, shoring, tight sheeting, sewer blueprints, pipe patching and repairing, trench shields, rodding water main, gravity flow pipe, tapping forced main, copper flaring/lead joints, continuity test, air/water test, pipe laser, laser setups, operation and maintenance, ARC First Aid/CPR, written tests and field problems.

Advanced Pipe/Restricted Plumber
(Pipelaying or job experience required prior to enrollment)
1. March 1-12 - 2 weeks
Wisconsin IND. CODE 145, restricted plumber curriculum including mound systems.

P.E. Pipe Fusion
1. March 15-17 3 days
2. March 22-24
Equipment, installation procedures, pipe and fittings, common hazards, OSHA regulations, test assemblies, operation and maintenance, safety procedures.

Welding/Cutting
1. January 11-22 - 2 weeks
2. February 1-12
3. February 15-26
Protective equipment, personal safety, gauge pressures, rod temperatures, grinding, AD-DC welding, cutting torches, oxygen/acetylene, flamex fuel, brazing, arc weld-horizontal/vertical, tee, flat, pad, lap, bent weld coupons, overhead pipe, gas weld.

Small Gas Engine
Operation and Maintenance
1. January 4-6 - 3 days
2. January 25-27
3. March 1-3
Hands on training, demonstrations, gas/oil engines, maintenance and rapair.

Concrete Construction Practices
1. April 12-23 - 2 weeks
2. May 3-14
Basic construction mathematics, measuring, leveling, squaring methods, form systems, placement, vibration, stripping, cleaning, site safety, hand/power tools, field project to include; footing, walls, curb, gutter, floors, sidewalks, columns, maintenance of tools.

Mason Tending/Scaffold
Winter Enclosure
1. February 15-26 - 2 weeks
2. March 8-19
Job setup, tools, equipment, materials, estimating, hand and machine stocking, scaffold building, types of scaffold, safety, mortar mixes, tending masons, tempering, housekeeping, shutdown, storage.

Rough Terrain Forklift Operation and Safety
1. January 25-29 - 1 week
2. February 8-12
3. March 1-5
Forklift safety, operation and maintenance.

Foreman Preparedness
1. January 11-15 - 1 week
2. February 8-12
Health and safety recognition, communications, construction mathematics, general project skills, job instruction, dealing with people, problem solving, emergency response, hazard communication, substance abuse.

Basic Transit/Level
1. January 4-15 - 2 weeks
2. February 15-26
3. March 22-April 2
Transit, Builders level, grade rod, lenker rod, range poles, set up and operation, applications, field exercise, elevations and stakes, construction mathematics.

Metrics in Construction
1. February 1-5 1 week
2. March 15-19
Introduction to metrics, DOT Highway prints, Specs., measuring tools and conversions. Site applications.

Grade Checking - Highway
(Basic Transit required prior to enrollment)
1. January 18-29 - 2 weeks
2. March 1-12
3. April 5-16
Measurement systems, construction line, measurements, section, plan views, profiles, stationing systems, slope expressions, reference systems, roadway slopes, slope stakes, roadway prism, curb and gutter, calculation.

Skid Steer Loader
1. February 1-3 - 3 days
2. March 29-31
Safety operations and maintenance, material handling.

General Construction
(New Entry Worker) - 2 weeks
1. May 17-28
2. June 7-18
Introduction to Construction Industry, Hand and power tools, Construction materials, OSHA safety, Introductory Industry Math.

Advanced Scaffold Builder
1. January 4-6 - 3 days
2. January 18-20
3. February 22-24
4. March 22-24
5. March 29-30
Course complies with OSHA regulations 1926. 450-454. Curriculum includes the OSHA standards, fall protection, stairways and ladders, electrical hazards and loading of scaffold. Hands-on training on the scaffold systems include frame and brace; tube and clamp; systems, tower & suspension scaffolds; shoring & rolling tower, and aerial lifts.