Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council TCCC

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Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council
TCCC

• Addressing Challenges in
• the
• Transportation Industrys Technical Workforce
  Training

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Worker Qualification

• FHWA regulations require the qualification of
  materials, laboratories, and workers that test
  the materials
• (23 CFR 637)
• Quality performance of the materials and
  workmanship is the objective
• Requiring qualification elevates worker
  training to a higher level

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Challenges

• Aging workforce
• Recruitment/ retention of skilled workers

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Partnership Effort

• Regional Certification Groups
• AASHTO Subcommittees
• Local transportation agencies
• FHWA/ NHI
• Industry groups
• Academia

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TCCC Activities

• Development of Core Curriculum
• Database of Training Resources
• Training Development

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Besides satisfying a Federal Requirement, what
other benefits are there to training?

• Trained employees have more pride in their jobs.
  Pride in job usually translates into
• Employee retention
• Safer work practices
• Increased productivity

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Employee retention

• The cost of replacing a fully trained technical
  worker is estimated to be between 1 2 times
  annual salary
• This translates into a 35,000 - 70,000 overhead
  cost to the employer

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Safer work practices

• Through Training
• Employees understand and learn to respect the
  inherent danger of the work environment, the
  equipment, and the chemicals they need to work
  with and work around
• Accident rates can be reduced
• Workers Comp rates can be lowered
• Employee morale is raised because the Employer
  cares

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Increased productivity

• Rework is reduced
• Fewer rejections due to unacceptable quality
• Faster recognition of production problems
• Pride in workmanship, pride in employment

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Current Training TCCC is Developing

• Inspection of Bridge Rehabilitation
• Environmental Factors in Construction
• GPS Applications in Construction
• Pavement Preservation Online Training
• Maintenance Academy

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Current TCCC Emphasis

• Development of a database of existing
  transportation technical courses
• Comparison and matching of curriculum
  competencies to courses available
• Identification of National training needs
• Contribution to pooled fund for future training
  development

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Where do I find more information about TCCC?

• www.nhi.fhwa.dot/tccc
• Training database
• Core curriculum matrices
• Training development activities

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QUESTIONS?
Douglas Townes Resource Center Construction
Team 404.562.3914 Douglas.townes_at_dot.gov