The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) is offering their FIRST program to support individuals with disabilities in becoming Red Seal certified. This is a great opportunity to gain the skills and certification needed […]
The Sheet Metal Workers’ Training Centre’s UTIP project, Technology and an Inclusive Workforce: Forging our Future Sheet Metal Industry, wrapped up earlier this year. The five-year project was successful, despite COVID delaying implementation of training using […]
Building off the successful UTIP project, SMWTCS received $246,500 from the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS), which provides federal funding to facilitate access to trades training using new technologies, particularly targeting green initiatives. The new Sheet Metal […]
Skilled Trades Certification (STC), also known as compulsory trades, is now in effect in British Columbia, and this applies tradespersons working in seven electrical and mechanical trades. Employers are required to maintain a 2:1 apprentice to […]
Workers who inhale respirable crystalline silica (RCS) are exposed to the risk of developing serious lung diseases, including lung cancer and silicosis. In construction, that exposure can result from working with concrete, rock, asphalt, drywall […]
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