Maslonka Powerline Services
Maslonka Powerline Services firmly believes that regularly scheduled comprehensive training is the key to not only employee development, but for overall safety, quality of work, and positive results for both our customers and our company as a whole.
MPS Programs and Procedures:
New Employee Training
New employees undergo initial training in job skills and safety, but also continued education throughout their career with the company. MPS also ensures our employees have a minimum set of certifications, including a minimum of CPR/First Aid and OSHA 10 certifications, and regularly hosts or provides in-house certification opportunities for additional skills like grounding, rigging, bucket truck/pole top rescue, signal person, and miscellaneous other job, safety, and equipment certifications. Training is planned annually, as well as additionally throughout the year as needed. Employees holding external certifications may also request additional training as required.
Skill Development
MPS partners with nationally-known training providers T&D PowerSkills and the Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction (ISPC) to further the training and skill development of our employees both through refresher training and our apprenticeship program. We have 6 certified training administrators and 2 primary in-house trainers for this program that includes both a three-year Transmission model involving 6,000 hours of classroom and on-the-job training, and a four-year Journeyman model that involves 8,000 hours of classroom and on-the-job training.
Retraining
Our policy also includes retraining all affected employees whenever there is a change in their job assignments, a change in personal protective equipment, equipment or processes that present a new hazard, or when there is a change lead safety procedure. Retraining is also provided whenever a safety procedure fails resulting in a near miss, illness, or injury. Additional retraining is conducted whenever a periodic inspection reveals, or whenever our management team has a reason to believe, that there are deviations from or inadequacies in the employee’s knowledge of known hazards or use of equipment or procedures. The retraining will reestablish employee proficiency and introduce new equipment, or revised control methods and procedures as necessary.
MPS requires first and second line supervisors to have additional training, including added supervisor training classes by T&D PowerSkills, OSHA 30 certifications, and Human Performance Leadership Training from the Practicing Perfection Institute.
