Curriculum and Electives

Core Curriculum

(240 hours total; unless noted, all courses Mon. – Thurs., 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; just one of the three Environmental courses noted with an asterisk (*) need to be completed)

  1. Hazard recognition
  2. Health effects
  3. Personal protective equipment
  4. Decontamination
  5. Site safety & health plans
  6. Safe handling techniques
  7. Safe sampling & air monitoring
  8. Superfund community relations
  9. Legal rights
  10. Confined Space

Note – only one of the three Enviromental courses must be completed.

  1. Introduction to infection control & the hospital environment
  2. Methods & processes to prevent the spread of infections during the renovation, demolition and construction of health care facilities
  3. Ventilation & environmental controls
  4. Construction of infection control barriers and enclosure areas
  5. Contamination control
  6. Dust and debris control
  7. GHS Hazard Communication

Note – only one of the three Enviromental courses must be completed.

  1. Health effects-lecture
  2. Respiratory protection-lecture & hands-on
  3. Protective clothing-lecture & hands-on
  4. Setting up decontamination unit
  5. Waste disposal-lecture & hands-on
  6. Methods of minimizing exposure-lecture
  7. Medical surveillance-lecture
  8. Technical aspects of air sampling-lecture
  9. Supervisory requirements

This class ends at 4:00 p.m.

Note – only one of the three Enviromental courses must be completed.

  1. Safety on Scaffold
  2. Tools & material recognition
  3. Power tools & Chain Saws
  4. Compaction
  5. Rigging & Signaling
  6. Cutting & burning
  7. Introductory Construction Math
  8. Powder Actuated Tool
  9. Introduction to Concrete
  1. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
    of whole numbers, mix numbers, decimals and
    fractions
  2. Convert between decimals and common fractions
  3. Use of the pocket calculator
  4. Read a rule and measure
  5. Learning Const. Math formulas
  1. Dept. of Labor, OSHA-10 Hr. Construction Safety Course
  2. National Safety Council-First Aid & CPR
  3. Silica Standards
  4. Traffic Control (Certified Flagger)

Heavy Commercial Construction plan reading 

Electives

(192 hours or more; unless noted, all courses Mon. – Thurs., 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)

  1. Asphalt lute, rake & smoother
  2. Vibratory roller & tamp
  3. Power box paver
  4. Quality assurance
  1. Safety of Concrete & Properties
  2. Sub grade for Concrete
  3. Concrete Forming
  4. Forming Curb & Gutter
  5. Pouring Curb & Gutter
  6. Concrete Pouring & Finishing
  7. Specialized Hand Tools
  1. Concrete properties & specifications
  2. Concrete mixing, pouring & placing
  3. Concrete finishing walls & slab
  4. Concrete vibration, air, gas & electric
  5. Side ditch & slope wall
  6. Specialized hand tools
  7. Wire mesh & rebar
  8. Soil compactors
  9. Road forms
  10. Power screed, concrete saws

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  1. Specialty Finishes
  2. Exposing aggregate in concrete
  3. Colored concrete finishing techniques
  4. Stenciling
  5. Stamping
  6. Factors affecting stained concrete
  7. Spray to finish
  8. Decorative finishes -Hands-on
  1. Oxy-acetylene cutting
  2. Burning bar (lance)
  3. Fire prevention & control
  4. Petrogen
  5. Setting up equipment
  6. Welding machine & accessories
  7. Fundamental welding positions (flat string bead, butt weld, lap weld, tee fillet & multiple pass fillet)
  1. Communications
  2. Construction Math
  3. Project organization & documentation
  4. Health & safety recognition
  5. Dealing with people
  6. Problem solving
  7. Layout with instruments
  1. Hoisting, Rigging & Crane Safety
  2. Basic Math for Hoisting & Rigging
  3. Rigging Hardware & Slings
  4. Signaling
  5. OSHA qualification requirement for hoisting, rigging & signaling
  1. Basic Math Conversions
  2. Basic Survey Procedures
  3. Laser Operator Training & Safety
  4. Instruments
  1. Dept. of Labor, OSHA 30 hr. Construction Safety Course
  2. Silica Awareness
  1. Shoring (hydraulic, timber & screw jacks)
  2. Pressure pipelaying techniques
  3. Pipe fusion
  4. Water pipe installation & assembly
  5. Tapping & hydrostatic testing
  6. Utility line & grade
  7. Sanitary sewer & storm drain systems
  8. Laser Operator Training & Safety
  1. Scaffold User Safety
  2. Scaffold building tools & personal protective equipment (PPE)
  3. Building frame scaffold
  4. Tube and clamp scaffold
  5. System scaffold
  1. Total Station Components
  2. Proper care of Total Station
  3. Setting up Total Station over a point
  4. Total Station Operation
  5. Measuring horizontal angles
  6. Measuring horizontal distances
  7. Right angle layout
  8. Staking out a square
  9. Building layout by coordinates
  10. Staking out a building
  1. Forklift Operation Safety (Part One)
  2. Scaffold Orientation Safety
  3. Basic set up and operations of Hydraulic Scaffolding
  1. Trench & Excavation
  2. Confined Space Awareness
  3. Back Injury Prevention
  4. Hoisting/Rigging Basics
  5. Ply Pipe Fusion
  6. Basic Construction Math
  7. Pressure Pipe Laying
  8. Gravity Flow Systems