{"id":6499,"date":"2021-06-17T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=6499"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:04:19","slug":"uw-platteville-designated-as-official-osha-training-center","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-platteville-designated-as-official-osha-training-center\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Platteville designated as official OSHA training center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2021\/06\/PLT_OSHA-training-center_construction-management-program_feature-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of construction site\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin-Platteville was recently designated as an official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.midamericaosha.org\/\">Mid-America OSHA Education Center<\/a>\u00a0training site, making it one of the only universities with a construction management program to be designated as such.\u00a0 Hosted through the Department of Industrial Studies\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwplatt.edu\/program\/construction-management\">Construction Management<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwplatt.edu\/program\/construction-safety\">Construction Safety Management<\/a>\u00a0programs, this designation will allow industry partners to send employees to UW-Platteville to be certified in Occupational Safety and Health Administration courses. In addition, the UW-Platteville Department of Industrial Studies is home to three faculty who are certified instructors for the Mid-America OSHA Education Center \u2013 Gretchen Bockenhauer, industrial studies lecturer; Julie Durst, industrial studies lecturer; and Mark Miner, associate professor of industrial studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partnership brings a lot of excitement to our construction management and construction safety management programs, as we can now offer OSHA courses to our industry partners, alumni and local businesses,\u201d said Bockenhauer.<\/p>\n<p>Selected courses in general industry and construction will be offered this summer, including General Industry \u2013 OSHA 511 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry, General Industry OSHA \u2013 501 Trainer Courses in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry, Construction \u2013 OSHA 510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry, and Construction \u2013 OSHA 500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for all courses is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/midamericaosha.org\/\">midamericaosha.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Industrial Studies plans to collaborate with industry partners to determine their OSHA training needs and offer those courses within the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Platteville was recently designated as an official\u00a0Mid-America OSHA Education Center\u00a0training site, making it one of the only universities with a construction management program to be designated as such.\u00a0 Hosted through the Department of Industrial Studies\u2019\u00a0Construction Management\u00a0and\u00a0Construction Safety Management\u00a0programs, this designation will allow industry partners to send employees to UW-Platteville to be certified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[93],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-6499","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-platteville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/6499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}