Perkins instructors start New Year with specialized training

During the first week of the New Year, Carl D. Perkins CTT instructors, maintenance staff and safety officers received specialized training in scaffolding. Jim Beck of Beck Safety Consultants was on center Jan. 5-7 to teach the 32-hour Principles of Scaffolding class to Perkins staff. This training, which reflects Perkins’ commitment to safety as its top priority, enables staff to be more knowledgeable about safe set-up and use of scaffolding and to teach these skills to students. Students will be able to practice these skills on center with mock setups and actual work in the spring on center projects and work-based learning.

Pictured are Jim Beck, trainer, and Perkins staff.

Beck has more than 45 years of construction experience and now teaches part time at Eastern Kentucky University at the OSHA Training Institute.

This is just one of many innovative training tools that Perkins utilizes to best prepare students for today’s workforce.

Perkins staff brave cold for ropes course training

Yes, it’s cold outside… so cold that most people may think it’s a bit too chilly to be out on the ropes course at Carl D. Perkins Job Corps practicing skills learned during a recent re-certification and training of the Ropes Course facilitators. But that’s exactly what staff did. They spent a morning recently working on their ropes skills, setting up the course and ensuring all safety procedures and protocols were in place. This training will pay huge dividends once students return to center later this month. The Ropes Course at Perkins is part of the Perkins Job Corps Leadership Program. Staff will have weekly training on the course with students who enter the Leadership Program.

Pictured are left to right, staff member Ben Runyon, student Javaaron Hale and staff member Thomas Rouse.