Tarrant County College joins the ranks of colleges using T&D PowerSkills DVD-deliverable training model to support their Electrical Line Technician program offered at their South Campus in Fort Worth, Texas. TCC is a 2-year accredited college with five campuses in Tarrant County, Texas.

Ref-Chem, a Burns and McDonnell Company, has selected the T&D PowerSkills Hybrid delivery model, blending online and DVD delivery of our training materials. Ref-Chem is a Texas-based contractor whose commitment to safety aligns with ours. Their website states the following, and we are pleased to help them in their mission: “Embracing the vision that safety saves lives and quality saves jobs.“

We welcome B&B Electrical and Utility Contractors, Inc. to our growing family of contractors using T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System.. With their home office in Brandon, Mississippi, and crews throughout the southeast United States, B&B is a continually growing "one stop electrical contractor," providing a full range of services from overhead and underground power distribution to substations construction and maintenance.

Dynamic Line Solutions, of Mesa, Arizona, selects T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System to train their electric lineworkers. Dynamic Line Solutions is a full service design firm, specializing in the design and construction of difficult access transmission powerlines.

The City of Mesa, Arizona adds T&D PowerSkills training materials to aid in training their electrical lineworkers. Mesa is the 3rd largest city in Arizona, covering 138 square miles.

Elm Electrical Inc., out of Westfield, MA, chooses T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System to aid in training electrical lineworkers. Elm is a diversified automation, construction, and electrical services provider that has been serving commercial and industrial customers throughout the Northeast since 1971.

T&D PowerSkills welcomes Chu-Con, Inc. as a new customer, selecting the DVD-deliverable training materials. Chu-Con is a contractor in Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Another vocational college is now using T&D PowerSkills materials to support their training programs: Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Murfreesboro. The TCAT – Murfreesboro is one of 46 institutions in the Tennessee Board of Regents System, the seventh largest system of higher education in the nation.

Chemours, a world leader in titanium technologies, now uses T&D PowerSkills training materials at their Florida plant. Chemours serves customers in over 130 countries, from 45 manufacturing and lab sites.

New York Power Authority adds T&D PowerSkills materials to their lineworker training. NYPA is the largest state public power utility in the country, boasting three large-scale, hydroelectric plants, generating 70% of the total power produced there.

Texas contractor, RD Underground, chooses T&D PowerSkills Underground training units to enhance their crew training.

Prince Telecom chooses T&D PowerSkills to aid in the training of their installation technicians. Prince Telecom is one of the nation’s largest telecommunications fulfillment providers, with offices all over the United States.

Ericsson, Inc., headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, selects T&D PowerSkills client-hosted telecommunications package to help support their lineman apprenticeship training programs. Ericsson is a world leader in the rapidly changing environment of communications technology by providing hardware, software, and services to its customers.

Henkels and McCoy, Inc. and HMI Utilities, Inc., both Henkels and McCoy Group companies, select T&D PowerSkills telecommunications package to support their apprenticeship lineworker training programs. H&M Group is an industry leading utility contractor providing critical infrastructure for the power, oil and gas pipeline, gas distribution and communications markets throughout North America. 

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a final rule today that clarifies certification requirements for crane operators, and maintains the employer’s duty to ensure that crane operators can safely operate the equipment. The final rule will maintain safety and health protections for workers while reducing compliance burdens. Under the final rule, employers are required to train operators as needed to perform assigned crane activities, evaluate them, and document successful completion of the evaluations. Employers who have evaluated operators prior to December 9, 2018, will not have to conduct those evaluations again, but will only have to document when those evaluations were completed. The rule also requires crane operators to be certified or licensed, and receive ongoing training as necessary to operate new equipment. Operators can be certified based on the crane’s type and capacity, or type only, which ensures that more accredited testing organizations are eligible to meet OSHA’s certification program requirements. The final rule revises a 2010 requirement that crane operator certification must specify the rated lifting capacity of cranes for which the operator is certified. Compliant certifications that were already issued by type and capacity are still acceptable under this final rule. The final rule, with the exception of the evaluation and documentation requirements, will become effective on Dec. 9, 2018. The evaluation and documentation requirements will become effective on February 7, 2019. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA’s role is to help ensure these conditions for America’s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, education and assistance. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today renewed a national strategic partnership agreement with the Electrical Transmission and Distribution (ET&D) Construction Contractors; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); and related trade associations to protect the safety and health of line workers, and other electrical transmission and distribution industry workers.

Sleigo Enterprises, LLC, an electric utility contractor based in Seven Points, TX, selects T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System (LMS) to help support their new lineworker apprenticeship training program. Sleigo provides powerline construction and maintenance, right of way clearing and land management, storm restoration and emergency response, streetlight maintenance and all high and low voltage applications of electrical work.

LG&E and KU Services Company, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, selects T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System (LMS) to help support their existing T&D PowerSkills Instructor-led apprenticeship and journeyman refresher program. LG&E and KU serve nearly 1.3 million customers with LG&E in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties and KU in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia.

ElectriCities of North Carolina, a long time client of the T&D PowerSkills Instructor-led course units, has decided to pursue a pilot program using the T&D PowerSkills LMS for the next 9 months. ElectriCities of North Carolina is a membership organization representing 70+ municipality communities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.