Industry, Education Partners Open Training Center to Deliver Interactive Skills Development Courses

West Georgia Technical College and Crane Industry Services, LLC created a partnership through the College's Economic Development Division to provide a new series of Skills Development Training Courses essential to construction, utilities, power generation, manufacturing, mining and refining.

Custom courses and open enrollment options are available at the new Centered on Safety Training Center on the WGTC Murphy Campus in Waco, Georgia. The partnership between CIS, which provides crane and rigging training nationally and internationally, and WGTC is the result of an initiative to support workforce development needs.

Courses delivered by CIS instructors initially will include basic and advanced rigging; rigging inspector; crane operator training, certification and qualification for mobile, overhead and tower cranes; crane inspector; crane site safety management and power line safety for utility workers. Additional courses are in development.

To complement training offered at the center, the WGTC Foundation is seeking short- or long-term loans or donations of equipment for the Centered on Safety courses. Cranes, aerial work platforms, rigging gear, excavators, welding equipment and other construction equipment are needed.

The WGTC Foundation is a private, non-profit 501(3C) corporation. Donations are tax-deductible. For information on making a donation, contact Foundation Executive Director Kim Learnard at 678-664-0515 or kim.learnard@westgatech.edu.