On-The-Job Training

Breakdown of On-The-Job Training

First Period

Perform duties as prescribed by the written policy statement of the Committee, providing for work both on the ground and aloft including climbing to assure suitability for the trade before probationary period expires.

Approximate Hours: 1,000

Transmission

	Steel Assembly and erection of steel towers, placement of footings, and attachment of insulators and materials, and the stringing, splicing, dead-ending, armor rodding, and clipping of conductors. Approximate Hours: 750

	Wood
	Framing, erection, and guying of wood poles and the installation of hardware insulators and conductors thereon. Approximate Hours: 750

Substations

Assembly and erection of steel and wood and the installation and connection of busses, grounds, switches, circuit breakers, transformers, regulators, and other substation equipment.

Approximate Hours: 500

Distribution

	New Construction
	Material handling, framing, and erection of poles, installation of anchors and guys, stringing, splicing, sagging of conductors on de-energized construction work. Approximate Hours: 1000

	Maintenance and Rebuild
	General Maintenance work near energized distribution conductors including pole replacement, conductor replacement, changing insulators and crossarms, changing and installing transformers, capacitors, regulators, switches, and other distribution apparatus. Approximate Hours: 1000

	Street Lighting
	Installation and maintenance of series and multiple street lighting systems and the associated control systems Approximate Hours: 1000

Live Line Maintenance

Rubber glove work on energized primary circuits. Hot stick work on distribution and subtransmission voltages.

Approximate Hours: 1,000

TOTAL: 7000 hours

All such work shall be performed under the supervision of a journeyman. Supervision should be of such nature as to encourage the development of responsibility and initiative.