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Rhode Island T2 Center Workshops

Throughout the year, the Center offers numerous training sessions highlighting essential skills and best practices for the public works audience. Below is a list of some of our offerings. To suggest a new topic, contact Jeff Cathcart.

Workshops

  • • Administering the Union Contract
  • • Introduction to Air Bags
  • • The Basics of Air Brakes
  • • All About Asphalt Pavements
  • • Arch Culvert Bridges
  • • Backhoe Operating Techniques
  • • Basic Blueprint Reading
  • • Basic Surveying
  • • Basics of a Good Road
  • • Beaver Control
  • • Best Management Practices
  • • Bridge Inspection
  • • Building a Budget
  • • Calibration of Sanders
  • • Construction Career Day
  • • Chain Saw Operating and Maintenance Tips
  • • Chain Saw Skills & Safety
  • • Chain Saw Techniques
  • • Cold Mix Paving
  • • Communications Skills for Public Works Officials
  • • Competent Person
  • • Concrete Construction for Public Works
  • • Conducting Effective Performance Reviews
  • • Confined Space
  • • Coping with Difficult People
  • • Demonstration of Asphalt Rubber Surface Treatment
  • • Demonstration of Pavement
  • • Pulverization and Liquid Calcium Chloride
  • • Detroit Diesel – Allison Transmission
  • • Disaster Planning Teleconference
  • • Drainage, Drainage, Drainage
  • • Elgin Street Sweeper
  • • Equipment Management Systems
    Equipment Show
  • • Expecting Inspections – EPA
  • • FHWA Snow Conference
  • • Flagger Certification
  • • Flowable Fill
  • • Forklift Operator Training
  • • Geosynthetics
  • • Getting Your Message Across
  • • Grader Workshop
  • • Gravel Road Demonstration
  • • Hazardous Materials
  • • Highway Application of Shredded Tires
  • • Highway Department Management
  • • How to Spec and Build a Snow Removal Truck
  • • Indoor Expo
  • • Infrared Technology
  • • Introduction to Welding
  • • Introduction to FEMA
  • • ITS Teleconference
  • • Limbing Trees
  • • Line Clearance Certification
  • • Line Painting Equipment and Federal
  • • Laws Governing Types of Paint
  • • Management Tips
  • • Managing, Motivating & Communications
  • • Mechanically Stabilized Earth
  • • Mig Welding
  • • Mountain of Demonstrations
  • • Pavement Maintenance Expo
  • • Pavement Maintenance Methods
  • • Pavement Management Systems
  • • Pelican SE/S Sweeper School
  • • Planning and Financing Capitol
  • • Improvement Projects
  • • Precast Concrete Bridges
  • • Preparing for Winter
  • • Public Works Exchange
  • • RIDOT – DPW Interchange
  • • RSMS Update
  • • Sign Inventory Management
  • • Skills for Administrative Assistants
  • • Snow & Ice
  • • Snow Plow Rally
  • • Streetscapes Teleconference
  • • Stress Management
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TEA-21 Funding – APWA Teleconference

  • • Tig Welding
  • • Timber Bridge Seminar
  • • Time Management
  • • Time Management for Secretaries
  • • Torches
  • • Tree Trimming Skills
  • • Turning Problem Employees into Problem Solvers
  • • Weeds, Trees & Turf
  • • Welding Workshop
  • • Winter Operations
  • • Work Zone Safety
  • • Working Safely with Underground Utilities
  • • Works Zone Safety Teleconference
  • • Writing Skills
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