National Apprenticeship Week was founded six years ago by the Department of Labor to give companies the chance to recognize their program of Apprentices and give more attention to the [...]
Oct. 1, 2017: Fifty-eight people were killed when a man opened fire on a crowd at a music festival in Las Vegas from a hotel room. July 1, 2017: 28 people were hurt when someone opened fire in a [...]
LPR and Longbow Industries are proud to boast that our CEO, Rocky Turner, has been appointed Chairman of the 2018 Board of NCCER Trustees. LPR’s continued commitment to a cutting-edge apprentice [...]
Written by Pat Hagan, Director of Safety LPR/Longbow LPR Construction is proud to announce our achievement in Total Recordable Incident Rate Reduction for yearend 2017. We completed the year with [...]
Work Safe, Live Safe, Stay Safe: ‘Struck By’ In the construction industry, falls, followed by ‘struck by’ are two of the leading incidents. Most of the time, when discussing ‘struck by’ [...]
Construction: Safety and Wellness “Accelerated Schedules” At a recent frontline supervisor training specifically dedicated to leading ‘safety’ as a foreman or leadman, we discussed the [...]
A Google search for Learning Management Systems (LMS) best practices can best be described as a vendor list of sales pitches describing technology tools that will revolutionize any training [...]
What I Learned During our VPP Audit The word ‘audit’ sparks fear or at least gets our attention. The very definition, “an official inspection of an individual’s or organization’s [...]
“Each dollar invested in craft training can yield $1.30 to $3.00 in benefits through increased productivity and reductions in turnover, absenteeism and rework.” This quote from an article in The [...]
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