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Tower Safety Success Story: 5 Years in Prison to a Successful Wireless Cell Tower Construction Owner
Tower Safety Success Story: 5 Years
in Prison to a Successful Wireless Construction Owner
According to the Bureau of Justice
Statistics the total incarceration rate
in 2011 - 2012 for veterans was 855 per 100,000 veterans in the United States. About 1 in 37
adults (or 2.7% of adults in the United States) was under some form of
correctional supervision at year-end 2015. Telecom Technical School
Director, Kathy Gill, goes into various prisons around the state of Arizona to
work with the incarcerated population and provide them with training and a job
opportunity. Telecom Technical College is committed
to the community to help better individual lives with education and an
opportunity for a career in the wireless industry, and we’re proud to share a
couple success stories that came from this commitment.
We recently offered a student a scholarship from a job fair
we attended at the Department of Corrections.
His dedication of riding his bicycle 20 miles to school every day to
receive training inspired Telecom Technical College to start contacting
potential employers to assist with his job placement and two days after
finishing school, he was successfully working in the wireless industry!
Another success is a man named “Jesse”, who spent 5 years in
federal prison. At the time, he was in a prominent gang selling drugs. During his incarceration, he would tell himself
“I am never going back, I will find a way”.
His wife was left to raise their 4 kids alone, providing food, shelter
and parental guidance as she waited for her husband to be released. Jesse had
several opportunities and choices- selling drugs or become a role model for his
family. He chose family. Jesse is well
respected by many and if he says he is going to do something, he will stand by
his word. His word was to take care of
his family
and today he owns a successful wireless cell tower construction company and
takes care of 30 employees and their families.
His success story is an inspiration to all of us who believe in hard
work and second chances.
480-313-0678
http://teltech-college.com
info@teltech-college.com
tower safety certificates with Telecom Technical College
Telecom Technical College Opens to Offer Tower Safety Certification to Public
Telecom Technical College is now open, and is offering a
Telecommunications Tower Technician certification of completion for individuals
interested in expanding their education and skills in the telecommunications
field. We are a safety training
school for the student wanting to start a career in the wireless industry.Who is Telecom
Technical College?Telecom Technical College, also referred to as TelTech
College, is committed to providing a safe and healthy learning environment for
their students. Our dedicated instructors devote our complete attention to the safety and success of
our students. We stand for workplace training by providing education that
empowers individuals.
What type of education is offered?The certification
of completion program
focuses of seven subjects:
1.
OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)
2. American Red Cross First Aid/CPR
3.
RF (Radio Frequency)
4.
Authorized Climber
5.
Competent Rigger
6.
Quality & Installation
7.
Telecommunications Tower Technician
What licensures and
accreditations does TelTech College have?
TelTech College is Arizona State
Board for Private Postsecondary Education recognized. In addition to being
licensed by the Arizona Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, we are
affiliated with the AZ Private School Association, EPTL, Workforce Arizona,
MTCAZ, Department of Labor TIRAP and the American Red Cross.
How is
TelTech College different than other training programs?
TelTech College is one of the few schools in the country to
offer this program. Our Chief Training Office Michael Halstead has over 20+
years in safety, telcom construction and OSHA compliance, and School Director
Kathy Gill has over 25 years of industry experience. You’ll be hard-pressed to
find other resources with such impressive expertise!
Why is
training important in the wireless communication industry?
The wireless communication industry continues
to boom and with that growth comes the demand for trained individuals in tower
safety. Prior
to the 1980s, communication and broadcast tower erection,
servicing and maintenance was a very small and highly specialized industry, and
known to few outside the industry. Over the past 30+ years, the growing demand
for wireless and broadcast communications has prompted an increase in
communication tower construction and maintenance, but the personnel to
effectively fill these jobs sometimes lacked in training and expertise, not
only in the skill to execute the climbs, but understanding and following OSHA
regulations, standard safety procedures, radio frequency knowledge, and overall
competent climber skills.
The importance of tower climber
safety can’t be overstated as it continues to be an unrelenting concern for wireless and other companies across the
country. Now more than ever, companies that employ tower climbers are feeling
the impact of a decrease in safety compliance on the job and a lack of trained
workers to execute the job safely. To increase climber safety compliance,
companies need to provide climbers with the right training and equipment and
make teamwork the backbone of all safety initiatives. TelTech College can
provide that training!
TelTech College
is thrilled to offer our certification of completion to prepare students for a
career in the wireless industry. Contact us today for our full catalog and to
speak with us about attending our program.
email: info@Te-Tech-College.com
School number: 480-313-0678
Telecom Technical College
Towersafety.com Willful Blindness
Willful Blindness
As a Safety Professional I am
always trying to find new ways to stress the importance of “safety”. It’s one of those over used words and many
times we ignore it at work, we forget about it at home, and we think it should
happen “naturally’, but it doesn’t! The cliché saying “100% Safety”, is setting
the standards so high, it’s almost impossible for a human to attain. From the NASA analysis of HEA (Human Error
Analysis) it’s difficult to have an accurate risk assessment on human error due
to the improbabilities of inconsistencies and reliability. Equipment
manufacturers have far exceeded the required quality, training is available
online or in person and yet the following stats are still happening:
·
The 2014 total of 4,821
fatal work injuries was 5 percent higher than the count of 4,585 fatal work
injuries reported for 2013. The count for 2014 was the highest since 2008.
·
4,821 workers were killed on the job in 2014 [www.bls.gov/iif/cfoi_revised14.htm] (3.4 per 100,000
full-time equivalent workers) — on average, more than 92 a week or more than 13
deaths every day.
·
804 Hispanic or Latino workers were killed from work-related
injuries in 2014—on average, more than 15 deaths a week or two Latino workers
killed every single day of the year, all year long.
·
Fatal work injuries involving contractors accounted for 17 percent
of all fatal work injuries in 2014.
If we are still having deaths and
fatalities in the construction industry, then we need to work on the behavior. I
listen to TED talks quite frequently and I remember one about a war
correspondent. She reported on some of the worst conditions any human should
never be subjected to. In one particular
story, the town was told to evacuate as war was coming, yet no one wanted to
believe it. They created Willful Blindness,
it won’t happen to me. Ignorance in any
situation is the unwillingness to recognize hazards and dangers of a situation
and the risks involved. We all have the
courage within ourselves to make a difference with our safety and protecting
our team members; don’t fall prey to Willful Blindness!
Belay Off,
CEO
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