Safety Training
As a Union Millwright employer, Icon Industrial Services Millwrights receive extensive safety training through their respective local union hall during 4-year apprenticeship programs and ongoing journeymen upgrade classes after they complete the program.
Training includes:
- General Jobsite Safety (16-hour Course)
- OSHA 10-hour training
- Personal Protective Equipment usage
- Power Tool Safety
- Welding Safety
- Rigging Safety
- Confined Space Training
- Safety Data Sheets Training
- Forklift Operation
- Aerial Lift Operation
- Ergonomics
- Scaffold User Training
![Millwright safety data sheets](/application/files/5315/1016/2942/iStock-540977382-1.jpg)
Orientation
Additionally, every employee participates in safety orientation covering our safety policies and rules when they are initially hired at Icon Industrial Services. Following this, we perform more in-depth training with our employees in the key areas that they will be addressing daily. This training is documented with a written test and kept in our personnel files. Some of the training requires updating on an annual basis. The following is a list of topics covered in our safety training program:
- Hazard Communication (SDS Training)
- Industrial Hygiene Training
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Fire Extinguisher Training
- Hand and Power Tool Safety
- Hot Work Training
- Electrical Safety
- Lock-out/ Tag-out (LOTO) Training
- Aerial Lift Training (including practical operation training)
- Cranes and Rigging Safety
- Forklift Operation Training
- Scaffold User Safety
- Fall Protection Training
- Ladder Safety
- Competent Signal Training
- CPR/First Aid
- Forklift and Aerial Lift Operators Training
![Lock-out / Tag-out Lock out tag out procedure](/application/files/4215/1016/3059/iStock-671721204-1.jpg)
Each employee is required to undergo a pre-hire drug screen as part of our safety program. Employees will undergo site specific training for jobsites they are assigned based on client requirements.