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Carl D. Perkins Instructors start New Year with Specialized Training.

Carl D. Perkins Instructors start New Year with Specialized Training.

The first week of the New Year for the Carl D. Perkins CTT instructors, maintenance staff, and safety officers began with specialized training in scaffolding. Safety is top priority at the Perkins center and the proper way to construct scaffolding is major. Mr. Jim Beck of Beck Safety Consultants has over 45 years of construction experience and now teaches part time at Eastern Kentucky University at the OSHA training institute.

Mr. Beck spent January 5-7 at Perkins teaching the 32 hour Principles of Scaffolding class. This enables the staff to be more knowledgeable in this area so they can in turn teach these skills to students. Students will be able to practice these skills with mock setups and then actual work in the spring on many center projects and Work Based Learning.

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

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