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Light Warehouse Training Celebrated

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Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 3:59 PM

Students  of Light Warehouse  Training program  join  Ministers Bell and Bond for  funding  talk – photo  courtesy CNC

Prince George B.C.- Funding for CNC under the Employment Skills Access Initiatives (ESA) was the focus  at  the College of New Caledonia this afternoon.

The  main campus in Prince George  received $288 thousand dollars for  the Light Warehouse Training program which will see  56 people  being trained.

Over the course of 18 weeks,  the participants will  gain a detailed understanding of the various duties of a warehouse person. Training in shipping and receiving will give graduates certification in five areas: forklift operating, occupational first aid – level one, Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), occupational health and safety and transportation of dangerous goods. 

ESA provides eligible participants with tuition-free, group-based training at public post-secondary institutions around the province in order to prepare them for entry or re-entry into the labour market. Participants must be Labour Market Agreement eligible – meaning they are unemployed, non-EI eligible individual workers. ESA is funded through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement.
 
To date, the B.C. government has created over 3,000 seats for skills training at 17 colleges and universities throughout the province with $18.7-million invested through the ESA initiative.
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Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 8:00 PM by gus with a score of 0

So is this for all sorts of lights or just commercial and industrial?

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 8:54 PM by middle finger with a score of 0

No, its for warehouses that don’t weigh very much.

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 9:46 PM by gus with a score of 0

Speaking of weight ……. ^

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 10:06 PM by metalman with a score of 0

Well for better or worse,it’s done, the spending of the money for this program that is. Hopefully most of the graduates will quickly find meaningful employment.
metalman.

Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 7:03 AM by steph99 with a score of 0

So were is the connection with industry? 18 weeks for level one and WHMIS and TDG come on people.How many openings for these jobs in PG?Take people on wefare and give them hope but no job these is the second such training did the other class find work? College could careless, when their done out they go, no tracking or accountability.

Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 2:04 PM by metalman with a score of 0

All good points, Steph.
While something needs to be done to get these people working, this is not a very effective way to accomplish that.
I too would ask; did anyone discuss this type of training with prospective employers in the region?
Typical government thinking: throw money at a problem, and hope it (the problem) goes away.
metalman.

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