International Operating Engineer - Summer 2017

Education & Training
Operators Get Airborne with Drones in New NTF Offering
AS IUOE CONTINUES to lead
the way in training with the latest in
technology, the first National Training
Fund (NTF) Train-the-Trainer for
Drone Operation was held in June.
This course provides a
comprehensive look at the use
and versatility of unmanned aerial
vehicles—better known as drones—in
today’s construction industry. Drones
are being used more frequently by
contractors because they are cheaper
than manned aircraft and faster than
human surveyors, and they collect data
far more frequently than either, letting
construction workers track a site’s
progress with a degree of accuracy
previously unknown in the industry.
The new NTF course also helped
prepare the 24 participants to take their
Commercial Drone Pilot’s License Test
which is administered by the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and
required for commercial drone use.
Within two weeks of class completion,
several participants had already taken
and passed their FAA test with flying
colors.
Local 150 hosted the event at their
Wilmington, Illinois training facility.
The participants were: Jeffrey Braun,
Local 649; Robert Shaw Jr., Local 15;
Tom Gordon, Local 14; Ken Powell,
Local 178; Kyle Rey, Local 542; William
Montegari, Local 542; Neil Arneson,
Local 302; Bill Finke, Local 302; Mike
Loera, Local 3; Derik Neff, Local 66;
Jim Coates, Local 399; Craig Corbett,
Local 49; Mark Adams, Local 49;
Mike Kuklo, Local 49; Tom Sundly,
Local 49; Kirk Denison, Local 12;
Rich Shakespeare, Local 926; Gary
Mashburn, Local 926; Jesse Wagner,
Local 835; Robert Seman, Local 18;
Steven Rogers, Local 57; Edward
Zambarano, Local 57; Ken Bork,
Local 139; Jeffrey Ebarb, Local 501;
Derek Sather, Local 324. Also shown
in the group photo is Local 150
Training Director Brian Roland, IUOE
Newly Revised OSHA 502 Outreach Class Held in Oregon
HAZMAT
THE NATIONAL HAZMAT
Program held an OSHA 502 Update
for Construction Industry Outreach
Trainers in May at Local 701 in
Gladstone, Oregon. Thirteen Outreach
Trainers from twelve IUOE Locals and
Job Corp Centers attended the threeday
program.
This was the first OSHA 502
Update using the newly revised OSHA
Outreach Trainer Update format.
Instructors no longer have to prepare
for and deliver a presentation. Instead,
the class focuses on Outreach Program
requirements, procedures, required
course documentation, lessonslearned,
and participatory methods.
Construction Training Director Chris
Treml, and course instructors Dave
Bowers, Local 150; John Leemann,
Local 158; and Len Casteel, Local 324.
New Construction Industry
PowerPoint presentations and the
elective module for the 30-hour OSHA
Outreach course, “Foundations of
Safety Leadership” were presented
and the materials were provided to the
instructors. Attendees also exchanged/
shared a teaching technique, training
prop, or demonstration that they use
during their classes.
Some examples include: a
safety slogan contest; personal life
experiences concerning accident
prevention and near misses; handson
demonstrations detailing the effect
of shock loading, sling tension, and
electrical gradients; a roundtable
jeopardy presentation; and ideas for
relating the training to the members’
work environment.
Feedback from the attendees
found that the new revisions OSHA
implemented to the Update format
were far more informative and they
walked away with tools they can use for
their own classes.
Attendees included: Kevin Allsup,
Local 234; Scott Browning, Atterbury
Job Corps; Frank Buchreiter, Local 12;
Garry Edmondson, Local 9; Greg Haas,
Local 49; Lisa Holland, Local 701; Noah
Ridgeway Local 318; David Sanders
Local 701; John Saunders, Mingo Job
Corps; Dushan Shepeard, Local 103;
Andrew “Archie” Smith Local 841;
Michael Strunk Local 3; Dennis Stump
Local 953; and Patrick Bell as instructor.
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