Another cooperative, Delaware County Electric Cooperative (DCEC) has joined the T&D PowerSkills family, selecting the versatile online LMS to aid in their lineworker training! DCEC is a non-profit rural electric cooperative serving more than 5,200 members in Delaware, Schoharie, Otsego and Chenango Counties in New York state. We look forward to a long relationship!

Another customer has chosen our Learning Management System to train their lineworkers! Welcome, Forbes Timberline a Forbes Bros company, to the T&D PowerSkills family! Their founders are all journeyman linemen who have a combined 100+ years experience in powerline construction, maintenance, and management. We look forward to helping them continue to safely train workers in our industry!

We are excited to welcome Thrive Industries of Washington state to our family of customers using the online Learning Management System! Thrive Industries is a safety and technical training company offering bilingual courses for the agricultural and construction fields.

We are proud to welcome Riggs Distler Company to the family of T&D PowerSkills users! They'll be using overhead and bucket truck training materials to keep their employees and customers safe. With headquarters in Cherry Hill, NJ, Riggs Distler has been in business for over 110 years.

We're proud to welcome Frontier Community College to the family of colleges that use our materials in their lineworker training programs! They have been awarded an educational grant by the Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction (ISPC). Many thanks to ISPC and a huge congratulations to the students and faculty at Frontier Community College in Fairfield, Illinois!

We are pleased to welcome another college to the T&D PowerSkills family! Welcome, Western Texas College! The Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction again awarded their grant to this institution, allowing the use of all 78 of our lineworker training units to their program! Huge thanks to ISPC and to Western Texas College!

We are pleased to welcome York Technical College to the T&D PowerSkills family! ISPC, the Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction, awarded their grant to York Tech, allowing the use of all 78 of our lineworker training units to their program! Congrats to York Tech, and as always, thank you ISPC!

Bobcat Electrical and Instrumentation Company has chosen T&D PowerSkills online Learning Management System (LMS) to their training program! They provide a complete range of electrical, instrumentation, automation, measurement, and communications services for a broad range of clients in the oil and gas industry. We are excited about our new relationship, and look forward to building on it for years to come!

We'll soon be releasing a major update for our Transformer Connections video, breaking it up into two comprehensive units covering basic theory to advanced application.  You'll find new narrator footage better explaining the concepts covered, and updated, high-definition illustrations covering single-phase and three-phase bank transformer connection applications.  

We are proud of our continuing partnership with Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., who has renewed and upgraded their contract with T&D PowerSkills. They will now be using both the online Learning Management System and the DVD deliverable materials with physical student workbooks and instructor's guides. We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with AECI for many years to come.

We welcome Titan Utility Services to the T&D PowerSkills family! Titan added our DVD deliverable training units to the materials they use to train in the utility industry, fulfilling their mission to "keep lineman safe through quality work and excellent customer service." We look forward to building on our relationship for years to come.

Check out these cleaning and disinfecting instructions for hot line tools to keep your crews safe!

We are proud of our continuing partnership with Infratech Corporation, who has renewed their contract with T&D PowerSkills for another five years. Infratech will now use both the full range of what we offer, including the online Learning Management System, our DVD deliverable materials, and even reproduction rights for student workbooks and instructor's guides. We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with Infratech for many years to come.

Ten Steps All Workplaces Can Take to Reduce Risk of Exposure to Coronavirus

On April 10, 2020, OSHA clarified the record ability of COVID-19 with employees as follows:

In areas where there is ongoing community transmission, employers other than those in the healthcare industry, emergency response organizations (e.g., emergency medical, firefighting and law enforcement services), and correctional institutions may have difficulty making determinations about whether workers who contracted COVID-19 did so due to exposures at work. Accordingly, until further notice, OSHA will not enforce its recordkeeping requirements to require these employers to make work-relatedness determinations for COVID-19 cases, except where: (1) There is objective evidence that a COVID-19 case may be work-related; and (2) The evidence was reasonably available to the employer. Employers of workers in the healthcare industry, emergency response organizations and correctional institutions must continue to make work-relatedness determinations pursuant to 29 CFR Part 1904. 

On this National Lineman Appreciation Day, April 13th, we salute all of the nation’s powerline workers. During these troubled times, keeping the lights on has never been more important. Thank you, lineworkers!

We are pleased to welcome Anoka Municipal Utility to the T&D PowerSkills family! AMU is a community-owned, non-profit out of Minnesota. They serve nearly 11,000 residential customers, along with over 1,300 commercial and industrial customers.

During this extraordinary health crisis, we want to make sure that employers can deliver training to their electric utility workers while observing state and federal guidelines regarding social distancing. To that end, we are TEMPORARILY LOWERING OUR PRICES for new customers to begin accessing the T&D PowerSkills training material online, with full testing and tracking features. Contact Jerry Havens our sales manager, his phone is +1 (318) 880-2259.

A special message for our customers regarding the virus. Following guidance from the State of Louisiana, operations at our office in Alexandria have been placed on hiatus to combat the spread of this deadly virus. We are still answering and fielding phone calls and emails, and we will diligently work to complete all orders as soon as it is safe for our staff to do so (once the order is lifted, presently scheduled for April 12th).  Stay safe!

Texas State Technical College, a client of T&D PowerSkills since 2008, has recently chosen to take advantage of our SCORM package for four of their campuses currently in session for lineworker training. This will allow them to continue to train future lineworkers online. Congrats to TSTC on a smart and safe choice!