The BRTC Career and Technical Center hosted guest speaker Bert Clevenger. Clevenger, a certified OSHA trainer, has been teaching OSHA-10 training to students over the last several weeks. This training emphasizes control and prevention, hazard identification, and avoidance while also covering a variety of general industry safety and health hazards which a worker may encounter.
Students with the OSHA-10 credential have industry-specific knowledge and skills that help prevent injuries and keep workplaces safe and productive. Many employers not only look for this certification in prospective employees but require it. Students and others can get this credential from a variety of places, but by completing the training during their CTC program, students do not have this additional out-of-pocket training expense and will be work-ready as soon as they graduate.
BRTC’s Career and Technical Center is a free program which enables high school juniors and seniors to get a head start on a career after high school. Students can graduate with their high school diploma as well as with a BRTC certificate, ready to go right into the workforce. Juniors and seniors at participating high schools are eligible to apply for the program.
BRTC’s Concurrent program enables high school students to earn both college and high school credit during classes taught at the high school campus, in selected cases on the BRTC campus, or by distance education. Any high school student who has completed the 8th grade, is enrolled in an Arkansas high school, and is recommended by their high school principal, superintendent, or counselor is eligible to take concurrent classes.
For more information about BRTC’s Career and Technical Center and concurrent program, visit https://blackrivertech.org/about/departments/career_and_technical_center or contact Darenda Kersey at (870) 248-4184 or at Darenda.Kersey@blackrivertech.edu.