On a recent Thursday night after work, two dozen Latino laborers gathered for snacks and a health and safety training class on their rights as workers in a large converted dining room in the small brick duplex that houses the worker center.
The crew has been training for months at Star City, outside Moscow, and is at the Johnson Space Center now for safety training and simulator classes required of those who want to visit the American section of the station.
Persons working with Class 3b or Class 4 lasers must receive laser safety training, which is given periodically by the MIT EHS Office (training schedule and registration are available on Atlas Training Center).
We partner with our physical security colleagues to provide training classes for employees, such as a travel safety course geared toward female employees, and use Facebook to share training videos on the threat of tailgating.
Today, each business has its own "training engineer," and the nine businesses offer staff members more than 50 training classes, including sessions on knife and food safety, effective interviewing and how to buy a house.
She signed them up for training classes.
Although the law that requires the safety training specifies that the Buildings Department must approve the "provider" of the training, the spokesman, Tony Sclafani, said the agency interprets that to mean the unions offering the class, not the individual teachers.
Complete lab safety training with Environmental Health & Safety.
Health and safety reps have raised concerns about lack of safety training and safety footwear.
