Masonry Magazine December 2004 Page. 45
Seminar Courses
# Foreman Development
Monday, April 18, 7:00AM-5:00PM
Tuesday, April 19, 7:00AM-5:00PM
Fairmont Hotel, Chicago
The Masonry Foreman Development Course has been designed to provide key employees with the skills necessary to become an effective foreman and profit center for your company. This 2-day course will teach the key areas of responsibility including:
* The components of communication and the factors that interfere with its effectiveness
* How to cope with typical masonry problems and get tasks accomplished by others
* How motivation relates to the supervisor and to the crew
* What the relationship is between decision making and problem solving
* The importance of developing budgets from estimates
* The importance of accurate reporting
* How to plan safety in daily activities and eliminate hazards
* The role and function of contract documents in influencing quality, time and cost
* How to avoid disputes as well as resolve them
# Masonry Wall Bracing Seminar
Thursday, April 21
9:00AM-1:00PM
Mc Cormick Place, Chicago
Who is responsible for bracing your masonry walls?
The Masonry Wall Bracing Design Course has been developed to provide contractors with the know-how to confidently design and construct bracing for a variety of common masonry structures. This is an opportunity to save your company money by designing your own wall bracing rather than paying a structural engineer.
This 4 hour course is intended to teach project managers, safety managers, foremen and any other responsible person to understand and implement the OSHA regulation on wall bracing, the Standard Practice for Bracing Masonry Walls, and the Masonry Wall Bracing Design Handbook. Completion of this course will allow your people to safely and efficiently design adequate masonry wall bracing. Why pay an engineer for a design that you can do yourself?
*Included in the registration fees are the Standard Practice for Bracing Masonry Walls and the Masonry Wallbracing Design Handbook (a $115 value)
# Masonry Estimating Seminar
(NEW ADVANCED COURSE!)
Wednesday, April 20
8:00AM-4:00PM
Mc Cormick Place, Chicago
Advanced Masonry Estimating is for the professional who has already been exposed to masonry estimating and the masonry process but is now seeking to enhance their skills.
Topics covered include:
* Computer-aided estimating and masonry estimating programs
* Working with assemblies versus line item take-offs
* Design-build strategies
* Alternate proposal techniques
* And much, much more!
# OSHA 10-hour Occupational Safety and Health Seminar
Thursday, April 21
8:30AM-4:00PM
Friday, April 22
9:00AM-12:00PM
Mc Cormick Place, Chicago
This 10 hour construction safety course was developed by the US Department of Labor to provide construction workers, and other labor personnel responsible for construction activities, with basic safety and health hazard awareness for construction sites.
Seminar is to provide attendees:
* The ability to identify common safety and health hazards and ways to prevent hazardous working conditions.
* References to working with masonry units as a stand-alone section and throughout the seminar.
* The ability to locate OSHA standards and other reference materials on the Internet.