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Training Schedule 2008
Ontario Requirements for Diamond Drill Helper
Common Core Training
Train the Trainer Course
Hard Rock Miner Diploma Program
British Columbia Training
First Aid Training


Training Opportunities


COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
MINING INDUSTRY SAFETY & HEALTH AUDIT (MISHA)
- Updated April 02/08!

May 6-8, in NORTH BAY

If interested in registering in this course, please complete the attached registration form and fax to MASHA before the registration deadline.

For further information about courses in other areas, visit our website at http://www.masha.on.ca/training_calendar.aspx

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.



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Jean Chadbourn
Administrative Assistant - Field Services
MASHA
690 McKeown Avenue, Box 2050
North Bay, ON P1B 9P1


P: 705-474-7233, ext 279
F: 705-472-5800

jeanchadbourn@masha.on.ca
www.masha.on.ca




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Job Opportunities


Surface Diamond Driller Assistant Common Core Training

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Experienced Diamond Drillers Wanted

Major Drilling, a large and growing Diamond Drilling contractor, has an immediate need for good drillers everywhere from Laborador to Nunavut.

Our goal is to be the employer of choice and the contractor of choice, while sending our employees home to their families as safe as their families sent them to us. Major Drilling (www.majordrilling.com ) is traded on the Toronto exchange and operates in over 20 countries around the world. If this is the kind of company you want to work for, please contact Kathy Karbonik (kathy.karbonik@majordrilling.com ) or phone 204-885-7532.



ONTARIO REQUIREMENTS FOR DIAMOND DRILL HELPER
Prerequisite Courses:
  • First Aid - CPR course
  • WHMIS course
  • Fall Arrest course
  • Lockout - Tag out course

COMMON CORE TRAINING

  • Norcat Training Centre (Sudbury)
    (705) 670-0324 (Cindy Lauren) or:
    (705) 521-8324 ext. 227 (Dennis Shannon)
  • (Modules 0000, 0001 and 0002 are offered weekly at Norcat under program # P770225 which is transferable to P 770150.)
  • Some of the Prerequisite Courses can be taken online at: www.norcattraining.com
    Underground Common Core training information online at: www.norcat.org

  • Canadian Driller Training (CDT) (705) 693-7844 or:
    (705) 690-0183 cell Ed McVeigh

  • Starting May 5, 2008 till July 11,2008
    Northern College (Kirkland Lake) (705) 567-9291 ext. 638 (Rose Lyne Messier)
    For more information, download printable pdf (1 meg), to review the program, please download this pdf.

NOTE:
Once the applicant has received his basic training, the hiring company has one year to complete the other required modules (surface, underground or specialty). These must be done on the job, by a person who is a qualified Trainer. Once the applicant has received his training to the satisfaction of the Company appointed Signing Authority, the Signing Authority signs and submits the original training applications and training reports to the local MTCU apprenticeship branch


TRAIN THE TRAINER COURSE

This is a four-day course put on by MASHA in North Bay. This is usually taken by highly skilled, competent and experienced person who has been accredited with ALL required Common Core and Specialty modules.

MASHA North Bay, Ont.
Tel: (705) 474-7233 ext. 245 (Barry Johnson)

Trainer
A trainer must be a highly skilled and competent person. He must be certified in the common core program and specialty modules that he will be instructing. He will have to complete a certified Train the Trainer course, be familiar with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations, be trained in the company standards and procedures and be able to convey the material successfully to the trainees.
Reference: More information can be obtained from the training branch of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

Signing Authority
A signing authority is an employee that has been designated by the employer and authorized by the MTCU to be accountable for the quality of training, maintenance of training records and determining the competency of company employees for modular accreditation.
Reference: The Signing Authority Application and Signing Authority Requirements can be obtained from the Training branch of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

MTCU contact is Michel Dupuis in North Bay. His phone number is (800) 236-0744.)


HARD ROCK MINER DIPLOMA PROGRAM

Corona College
16-Weeks in Duration; Core and Specialized Training

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For more informat, contact: jpynn@coronacollege.com
Corona College
60 Hardy Ave, Grand Falls / Windsor, NL A2A 2P7
www.coronacollege.com


FOR TRAINING INFORMATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Contact:
Northwest Community College
School of Exploration & Mining
3966 2nd Ave, P.O. Box 3606, Smithers, BC V0J2N0
www.nwcc.bc.ca/SEM.cfm

Tracy Moore - Industry Liaison & Job Placement Advisor
tmoore@nwcc.bc.ca

Ph: (250) 847-4461 ext. 5822
Fax: (250) 847-4568


FIRST AID TRAINING

First Aid on the Go!
Canadian Red Cross Authorized Provider
519 McKenzie Court, North Bay, ON P1B 9M5
Contact: Louise Lowe
Tel: (705) 472-1852
timothy.lowe@sympatico.ca

Courses: Standard First Aid and CPR, Emergency First Aid and CPR, CPR & AED, On Board Boat License.