Mobile Training Courses

Course Overview

This half-day course focuses on the skills, knowledge, and safety behaviors needed for aerial lift rescue (bucket trucks). This course will certify or recertify trainees in aerial lift rescue in compliance with the Federal OSHA 1910.269 requirements for training. In addition to classroom discussion, the trainees are required to perform simulated rescues to achieve competency.

Course Overview

This two-day course is designed to refresh or enhance the knowledge of utility workers involved with the installation and operation of transformers, providing the most common service voltages to meet customers’ needs. The course’s primary focus is on transformers’ connections and banking; however, additional emphasis is placed on hazard awareness and trouble scenarios. All training is conducted on our transformer training lab, the TransBanker®.

Curriculum

• Transformer Anatomy and Theory
• Installation and Banking
• Troubleshooting Transformers
• Paralleling Transformers
• Verifying Proper Voltages
• Turns Ratio
• Three-Phase Rotation

Course Overview

This two-day course enhances the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of crew leaders to effectively motivate, direct, and lead others. It also emphasizes the importance of taking action, upholding the vision and values of their organization, strengthening peer and customer relations, and risk management. Training consists of classroom instruction where participants will be engaged in case studies, lecture, discussion, and group activities.

Curriculum

• Crew Leader Responsibilities
  
• Leadership Styles
  
• Making Optimal Decisions and Taking Action
  
• Improving Working Relationships
  
• Improving Employee Performance
  
• Motivating Your Crew
  
• Leadership and Personality Types
  
• Resources Under the Control of the Crew Leader
  
• Planning and Laying Out the Job
  
• Delegating
  
• Job Briefings
  
• Improving Safety on the Job
  

Course Overview

The objective of this two-day course is to learn and apply the necessary skills needed to establish a safe equal potential grounding and bonding work safety zone. A combination of classroom lecture and field performance outcomes are used to develop and measure trainee knowledge and skill regarding overhead, transmission, and underground grounding operations using the new EPZGrounder™ Lab.

Course Overview

This half-day course focuses on the skills, knowledge, and safety behaviors in pole-top rescue situations. This course will certify or recertify trainees in pole-top rescue in compliance with the Federal OSHA 1910.269 requirements for training. In addition to classroom discussion, the trainees are required to perform simulated rescues to achieve competency.

Course Overview

This 2-day course is intended to educate your workforce on the application of ropes and other types of rigging equipment used in power delivery. Special emphasis is placed on the efficiency of knots and slings when used in different configurations. Trainees are also required to memorize and demonstrate knot tying.

Course Overview

This five-day course is best suited for journey-level lineworkers and above who are (or will be) conducting work that requires the use of rubber gloves and competency-based certification training.

Curriculum

• Safety regulations and applicable ANSI, ASTM standards and OSHA regulations
• Industry best practices for rubber gloving
• Insulate, isolate, and second point of contact
• Field testing and inspecting of rubber goods and related equipment
• Care and storage of rubber goods and equipment
• Types of rubber goods (Type I and Type II)
• Minimum Approach Distance (MAD)
• Conductor weight calculations
• Certification Exam

Course Overview

This five-day course is designed to teach working in elevated positions as it applies to power workers. Climbing and working from wood poles is the primary focus of the course, with some exposure to other types of structures such as tubular and lattice steel. Trainees will learn the requirements for using positioning device systems (body belts and climbers) as well as personal fall arrest systems (harness/lanyards). Structure rescue is also taught in this course.