The School of Community Government
Works and Works Management
What is the purpose of the program?
To train community government works staff.
What are the objectives of the program?
- To provide community government employees with the skills to provide efficient and effective community works programs and services.
- To ensure that the community government works area is safely providing services to it’s residents.
- To allow community employees to do their job safely.
- To enhance the overall skills of community work employees so that they can more effectively deliver services.
Why should I take the Works and Works Management program?
- Upon completion of the Works and Works Management Programs you will have the skills to serve your community in such essential operations as maintenance of public buildings, roads and mobile equipment.
Program Outline:
- Basic Trade Skills I - Carpentry, Drywall and Painting
- Basic Trade Skills II - Electrical and Plumbing
- Heating and Ventilation
- Preventative Maintenance Planning
- Energy Management
- Custodial Care
- Site and Structural Maintenance
When and Where?
- Training courses are being delivered throughout the Northwest Territories in both regional and community settings.
- A Bulletin advertising SCG training opportunities, registration details, schedules, dates and locations will be regularly distributed to community staff, organizations and partners that support community governments.
Course Descriptions
Basic Trade Skills I - Carpentry, Drywall and Painting
Participants are introduced to the importance of safety on the job. Hand and power tools, their purpose, use and care, including tool sharpening, are covered in this course. Participants learn how to measure, mark and square properly and accurately. This course addresses selecting, handling and storing of materials safely and securely. Participants will be introduced to blueprint reading and learn construction techniques of fastening, construction and framing, building stairs and drywall and taping.
Basic Trade Skills II - Electrical and Plumbing
This course introduces participants to the basics of electricity, types of electrical repairs a maintainer is allowed and not allowed to do, and the safeguards to observe when working with electricity. Voltage, resistance, current, circuits, tools to be used for electrical repairs, and materials and fixtures are all covered in this program. Participants will also be introduced to the basic components of plumbing; what the maintainer is allowed to do with respect to plumbing and how to identify when professional help is needed. Plumbing tools and their use and care are also covered in the course. Specific procedures are given for performing maintenance duties related to plumbing.
Heating and Ventilation
This course offers detailed instruction and practical sessions on the operations and maintenance of heating and air ventilation systems. Boilers are covered in detail in this course. Instruction in forced air furnaces can be offered on request.
Preventative Maintenance Planning
This course emphasizes the process of developing a preventative maintenance program. The manual documents the daily, weekly, seasonally, and yearly preventative maintenance activities. The participants will become familiar with setting standards, conducting an inventory of what to maintain, scheduling maintenance, writing instructions and maintaining a log book. This course concludes with a section on life cycle planning.
Energy Management
By implementing an energy management program, money can be saved and facilities made more comfortable. This program offers practical suggestions on how to conserve energy, shows how to determine how much energy is being used, how to conduct an energy audit, how to identify potential energy savings, and how to organize energy conservation activities and develop them into a routine.
Custodial Care
A clean facility is a facility to be proud of. This course covers what must be cleaned (soils, stains and micro-organisms), what must be used to remove each, how to buy only what you need, how to keep track of supplies, how to store supplies safely, and how to put a preventative maintenance program into place. Participants will become familiar with various types of flooring, cleaning equipment and supplies, and learn about specific procedures for cleaning floors, walls, ceiling and fixtures.
Site and Structural Maintenance
Maintainers must be familiar with both the site, and the maintenance related to their facility. This includes being familiar with site plans, what public access should be provided as well as how and when to inspect, and the tools and materials needed to maintain the facility site and the structure itself. This course also includes an overview of the structural system of a building, including foundation-bearing walls, floor and roof beams. Participants will become familiar with the components of metal buildings: the frame, the roof panels, doors and frames, gutters and downspouts. Building codes, standards, regulations, and by-laws relating to building safety are also covered in this course.
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