Last Week at AO: Two Cities, Three Campuses

Last Week at AO

2

Cities served
this week

3

College programs
running

1

New CDL instructor
approved

In the Field

CITIES

Out with two Michigan cities

We spent the week with our municipal partners. At the City of Portland we ran Traffic Control / Flagger training and a leadership tabletop exercise with their management team — two very different sides of keeping their workforce safe, in the same visit. We also spent a crew observation day with the City of Chelsea, out with the crew watching the real work and walking through the safety field guide and how it applies to their own work practices.

Campus

JACKSON

A CDL is the first real step

Classes at Jackson College are in full swing, and interest in the program keeps climbing. Both our CDL students and our lineworker students are seeing real opportunities for employment. The lineworker students keep arriving at the same realization — a CDL is the first real step toward getting hired — and they’re putting what they’ve learned about how to find a job to work.

Campus

LANSING

Nine weeks, running strong

The 9-week program at Lansing Community College has run well and is heading into its mid-stretch. We’re adding new climber instruction and continuing to help discover additional curriculum for what comes next in the student experience.

Program

CDL

More seats behind the wheel

Our 3-week CDL class is into week two. We also added a second approved CDL instructor to the team this week — which means we can open up more classes as demand grows, instead of making people wait for the next one.

Equipping workers, building culture.

What we train

▸  Traffic control & flagger certification
▸  Leadership tabletops & crew observation days
▸  Electrical safety, NFPA 70E & arc flash awareness
▸  Transformer switching, phasing & grounding
▸  Enclosed space entry & manhole rescue
▸  CDL training & behind-the-wheel instruction

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