Customized Training for Business & Industry

The Division of Continuing Education recognizes the special needs and problems of non-traditional learners through a program of on-campus and off-campus night classes, workshops, short courses, and non-credit community service activities. The office offers a number of classes for business, self-improvement, and general interest recreation each semester.

Windows 2000: Overview of the desktop icons, work with common window features, work with dialog boxes, command, radio and spinner buttons, drop-down list, and check boxes. Participants will learn to use Explore to manage files and use Windows Accessories such as Calculator, NotePad, and WordPad.

Managerial Communication: This course will examine how to communicate effectively and efficiently in the business world. The course will focus on clear and concise writing, especially in the area of business letters. This class will also look at how to solve business problems encountered through powerful communications.

Microsoft Word - Introduction: The introduction to Word will be an overview of creating and saving a document, editing a document, working with text, changing document layout, using the dictionary and thesaurus, finding and replacing text, and importing a graphic.

Microsoft Word - Intermediate: The intermediate level of Word will be an overview of multiple windows, finding and managing documents, using styles and templates, working with columns and tables, advanced formatting techniques, mail merge, autotext, macros, and mailing labels.

Microsoft Word - Advanced: The advanced level of Word will cover working with and organizing long documents, working with templates and forms, customizing Word, and tracking, accepting, and rejecting changes.

Microsoft Excel - Introduction: Learn how to create a spreadsheet using Excel. This course introduces the user to Excel menus, essential commands and the Toolbar. Exercises focus on adding/removing rows and columns; copying, moving, and editing data; creating basic, simple formulas; formatting worksheets using fonts, attributes, and alignment.

Microsoft Excel - Intermediate: The intermediate level of Excel will be an overview of date and time functions, lookup tables, working with multiple windows, sheets, linking, advanced chart options, simple database, and simple macros.

Microsoft Excel - Advanced: The advanced level of Excel will cover worksheet protection, auditing worksheets, analyzing data, customizing Excel, and exploring macros.

Microsoft PowerPoint: Spice up your presentation with PowerPoint multimedia software! Designed for the beginner, this class will cover the basics of slide presentation, animation, and graphics.

Microsoft Access - Introduction: Microsoft Access, a relational database management system, allows you to store, organize, and easily retrieve information. With this Windows software, you'll learn how to develop a database from beginning to end as well as locate the information you need using filters and queries.

Conversational Spanish: This course is designed to give the student the skill to communicate in and understand basic written and spoken Spanish. Beginning level structures will be taught, and the course can be modified so as to include the needs of the students in the fields such as business, medicine, or other areas of public service.

OSHA Training for Hazardous Waste Site Workers (40 - Hour HAZOPER): OSHA regulation under 29 CFR 1910.120 requires 40 hours of training for hazardous waste site personnel and their supervisors involved in any activities which expose or potentially expose them to hazardous substances and health hazards above permissible levels. Regulatory review, toxicology, medical monitoring, chemistry, site characterization, site safety plan, air monitoring equipment, sampling, spill control, and emergency response are among the major topics covered. Hands-on experience and scenarios are used throughout the class to reinforce the training.

Industrial Emergency Spill Response (24-Hour HAZWOPER): This course provides training for industrial hazmat teams, spill response teams, and industrial emergency response personnel as outlined in OSHA regulation 29 CFR 1910.120. The course covers worker protection procedures, health effects of hazardous materials, personal protective equipment, containment, confinement, and control as well as decontamination procedures. The course emphasizes practical industrial-sized spill response applications through hands-on drills in full protective equipment.

Industrial Emergency Response: Awareness Level  (8 - Hour HAZWOPER): The awareness level of training is for individuals who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and will initiate a response sequence by notifying the proper authorities of the release. Topics include what are hazardous materials, recognizing and identifying the presence of a hazardous material in an emergency, potential outcomes, and individual roles in an emergency situation. Persons trained to this level would not be involved in clean-up or containment operations in an emergency situation. This course meets the standards published by OSHA in 29 CFR 1910.120 for industrial first responders.

First Responder Awareness Level (4-Hour HAZWOPER): First responders at the awareness level are workers who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release. Their role is limited to notifying the proper authorities. Topics include recognition of hazardous substances and situations and the risks associated with them in an incident, and understanding of the role of the first responder awareness individual in the employer's emergency response plan. This course meets the standards published by OHSA in 29 CFR 1910.120 for first responders awareness level.

Waste Site Supervisor/Annual (8-Hour HAZWOPER): This class is a required annual refresher for persons who have already completed the 40-hour or 24-hour OSHA training. All major topics covered in the original training will be reviewed. In addition, new regulations and information pertinent to the hazardous materials field will be introduced.

Confined Space Entry: This training is designed to meet the standards published by OSHA in 29 CFR 1910.146 for safety and training requirements for persons working in and around confined spaces. Emphasis in the class is placed on identifying confined spaces, the permit system, safety entry procedures, risk assessment, monitoring for hazards present, personal protective equipment, responsibilities on entrant and attendant, and rescue operations.

Hazard Communication Workshop: Businesses which handle or work with hazardous or potentially hazardous chemicals are required to comply with OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard found in 29 CFR 1910.1200. This workshop covers the following compliance requirements: regulatory requirements, developing a written program, listing hazardous materials used and generated in the work place, identification and labeling of hazardous materials, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and employee training program.

Supervisory Training: This course will focus on topics such as learning to properly delegate, communicating with a diverse workforce, resolving conflict among employees, motivating employees, recognizing your own managerial strengths and weaknesses, working with difficult people, and other fundamentals of supervision that will make for success as a manager.

Lockout/Tagout: This training is designed to meet the standards published by OSHA in 29 CFR 1910.147(c) for safety and training requirements for persons who perform servicing or maintenance on equipment that must be locked or tagged out for protection. Training will include: recognition of applicable hazardous energy sources, types and magnitudes of energy available in the workplace, methods and means necessary for energy isolation and control, recognition of the control procedure, and the limitations of tags.

Elements of Business Etiquette: Business etiquette is much more than knowing how to use the correct utensil or how to dress on certain occasions. In today's shrinking world, good business etiquette is critical and marks the difference between professional and unprofessional behavior. The focus of this course will be on proper use of e-mail and cell phones, work behavior, meeting people, dining etiquette, and how to conduct and participate in business meetings.

D.O.T. HM-126F: Employers are required to train all employees in the proper transportation of hazardous materials. Hazmat employees include anyone that loads or unloads hazardous materials as well as those that select, mark, or label packages, fill out shipping papers, or are otherwise responsible for the safe shipment of hazardous materials. This course has been designed to provide a basic working knowledge of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Regulations contained in Title 49, parts 100-177 (as required by 126F-215). Subjects include definition of hazard classes, divisions and regulatory authority, using the hazardous materials table, marking, labeling, placarding and shipping papers, emergency response information, hazardous substance and waste transportation requirements.

Sexual Harassment Awareness: Do your employees need a refresher course in what constitutes sexual harassment? This course will define sexual harassment and make participants aware of those comments or jokes that could be offending to others.

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