NWACC named OSHA education training center
Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2008
BENTONVILLE — The University of Texas at Arlington has selected Northwest Arkansas Community College to serve as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration education satellite training center.
This new addition by the UT Arlington Division for Enterprise Development will serve safety and health instructional needs of the federal government in Arkansas, according to an NWACC news release.
The OSHA Training Institute Education Centers programs are a key role within OSHA’s safety and health mission. The centers offer a full complement of OSHA training courses to help ensure employers a safe and healthful work environment and enable employees to recognize, avoid and prevent unsafe and hazardous work practices.
Additionally targeted programs provide community outreach and opportunities in Spanish and other languages, as well as youth initiatives designed to educate the emerging work force.
Training at NWACC will help ensure employers that employees receive standardized, verifiable health and safety training that includes industry-specific topics with an emphasis on the highestrisk activities, said Cindy Hammons, program director for the college’s OSHA / Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Regulatory Science programs.
Courses will be available immediately. The first course catalog for the new training program will be available this month. Openenrollment course offerings will be published on the University of Texas at Arlington Web site at http: // www. uta. edu / ced.
For more information, call the UT Arlington Division for Enterprise Development at 1 (866 ) 906-9190 or Cindy Hammons at 936-5178.
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