Masonry Magazine April 1992 Page. 20
Program: Roman Bitsuie, Navajo Hopi Land Commission; Frank Mastropieri, Laborers AGC Education and Training Fund; Joel Lepo, Kiewit Construction Group; and John Moran, Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America.
A new mason tending course was pilot tested last August at the training center in Medford, New York. The presentation was attended by fifteen instructors representing thirteen training funds from the United States and Canada.
This 40-hour course is designed to supplement the existing basic mason tending course with advanced scaffolding skills, extendable boom forklift training, and work with common mortar additives.
The advanced scaffolding section contains training in irregular terrain scaffolding, irregular shape scaffolding, and other types of scaffolding such as pole-and-clamp. Laborers AGC insisted on training with the equipment that laborers will be expected to operate in the field such as an extendable boom forklift. Work with mortar additives included the material safety data sheets that accompany the additives and an instructor lecture of the specific hazards related to each. Additives such as retarders, accelerators, and coloring agents were used in the presentation to show proper mixing techniques.
The addition of this second forty-hour mason tending course will serve to reinforce the topics presented in the basic mason tending course. Laborers-AGC recommends that the two courses be presented back-to-back.
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of regional training, the project will operate four regional based centers located in West Virginia, Oregon, Louisiana, Arizona, and one mobile center located in Des Moines, Iowa. Collectively these five training centers will provide fifty-nine grant sponsored presentations over the eighteen month grant period.
This program is designed to train for an identifiable need in the workforce. For this reason an application for training must be submitted through local union or training fund offices.
The application must have a sponsor (a local union representative or training director) that will verify that there is a need for workers trained in the type of skill requested on the application. Once completed the sponsor should forward the application to the regional training site. The training site will respond to the application and notify the applicant of the first available opening for the course they wish to attend.
For more information concerning the Laborers-AGC Construction Skills Training Program of the U.S. Department of Education Cooperative Demonstration Grant, contact Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund, 37 Deerfield Road, Box 37, Pomfret Center, Connecticut 06259. Phone 203/974-0800.
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