Introduction to Trades and Trade Safety/Job Site Ready

Catalog description

Thiscourse is offered in a face to face format with both classroom and applied training or in select offerings in a hybrid online/face to face format. Students will receive an introduction to the trades as well as learn the necessary skills to be able to obtain employment and safely participate in trades related careers. Major topics include an introduction to OSHA, including job site safety hazard recognition, hand tool safety, power tool safety, hand signals, and working around heavy equipment. Students also receive an overview of the most common construction materials and their uses, basic framing and carpentry, concrete and concrete forming, blueprint reading, and construction math.