Training programs
NUCA Training Programs
NUCA Training Programs are available to NUCA member companies only; if your company is not a current member but would like to join please follow this link to request membership information.
NUCA Competent Person Class
Excavation is the most dangerous of all construction operations. More workers are killed or seriously injured in and around excavations than in other phases of construction work, and that’s why the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires a competent person to oversee all excavation and trenching jobsites. The competent person must have specific training in, and be knowledgeable about, soil analysis, the use of protective systems, and the requirements of OSHA Subpart P.
NUCA’s Excavation Safety Competent Person Training program helps contractors train the competent person and workers. Although the responsibility for designating a competent person is the sole responsibility of the contractor, this program is designed to simplify the task by providing participants with the information and training needed to become a competent person.
The program includes the scope and application of Subpart P—Excavation Standard; definitions; general requirements; requirements for protective systems; soil classification; and handling an OSHA inspection. Each participant receives a training manual that includes a complete copy of the Excavation Standard.
NUCA Confined Space Training
Millions of employees who enter into confined spaces each year face a significant risk of injury or death. Many of these same employees do not recognize that they may be facing serious unforeseen hazards by working in a confined space.
NUCA’s Confined Space Entry course is intended to provide construction managers, competent persons, and workers with basic information regarding entry into confined spaces. Its purpose is to create an awareness of the hazards associated with confined spaces and to provide managers with basic information necessary to establish a confined space entry program. Every confined space is unique. Therefore, each confined space must be carefully evaluated, and hazards must be eliminated or controlled before a confined space entry supervisor issues an entry permit.
Crew Leader Training
NUCA’s Essential Skills for Crew Leaders Training is a two-day, intensive course that trains workers to be effective leaders and communicators so they can provide clear direction to your crew, and plan and schedule the crew’s work to maximize safety, production, and profit. This training is made possible by the NUCA University and the NUCA Institute for Leadership Development.
Class price includes continental breakfast, lunch, course materials, NCCER “Fundamentals of Crew Leadership” Manual, supporting course manual, and Certificate of Completion. Courses can be smaller than 12 students, but minimum charge will be for 12 students, the maximum class size is 25.
Train-the-Trainer Program
NUCA-approved Instructors are an elite group of individuals who have helped to build and improve this program as the years passed. Just as your trained employees are retiring, so are many of our trainers; creating a need for new well trained instructors to teach the NUCA programs.
NUCA Damage Prevention Train the Trainer Course
NUCA Damage Prevention Train the Trainer Course is a 2-day course that certifies individuals to teach Damage Prevention to their employees.
Attendees will be certified NUCA Instructors and will be held to the same standards as the current letter of agreement for Competent Person and Confined Space. Once certified instructors will have the ability to train for their companies as needed.
The benefit to the members of this course is to eliminate or limit the number of utility strikes. This would reduce downtime, project delays and loss of production. The purpose is also to create a safer work environment. Having properly trained individuals is the key to success for every company.
This is a 2-day course and below is a brief description of the classes that each instructor will be certified to teach.
1. Locating for the non-locator: Locating for the Non-locator will teach a very general knowledge of how the locating machines work and what to expect from locators. In other words, how to know when they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing.
2. The Basics of Damage Prevention: Damage Prevention basics will talk about the basics of the One-Call systems (wait times, tolerance zones, etc.) industry best practices and standards along with OSHA 1926.651. This comes from years of reading depositions where our operators and laborers can’t explain anything related to what these basics are and often help to settle cases against us.
3. Documentation of a jobsite: Site documentation is about documenting a site after the locators leave and before we begin excavation as well as during the excavation process.
4. Damage Investigation: Damage investigations is just that, how to document and investigate a utility damage.
Attendees will be given all the training materials to teach the listed classes.
Advanced Crew Leader Course
Advanced Crew Leader Course is a 2-day course and developed as a follow-up course to NUCA’s Crew Leader Training. The Advance Crew Leader Course will give students an introduction into Project Management and Senior Leadership an overview of the phases of construction projects and management.
Topics covered are:
Introduction into Project Management
Safety
Interpersonal Skills
Issues and Resolutions
Construction Documents
Construction Planning
Estimating and cost control
Scheduling
Resource Control
Quality Control
Continuous Improvement
Attendees will be given all the training materials to teach the listed classes.