The Arc Flash Safety Training Webinar can help your employees minimize the risks of working around electricity. Plan to have your employees (who have yet to take the training) sign up for the next webinar on July 30, 8:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. This training is specifically designed for mechanical and service employees who are exposed to electricity from HVAC work, electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, voltage testing, fuse testing, verifying a zero energy state, infrared imaging, etc. It is also designed for those employees who manage or supervise electrical workers and safety/engineering professionals who manage the company's Electrical Safe Work Practices program. Presented by the Hilgeman Group, the session covers all applicable OSHA and NFPA requirements (including the new NFPA revised 70E requirements that took effect on January 1), best practices and provides participants with real-world accident information to reinforce the training. 

MCAA is continuing to reach out to lawmakers on key committees in both houses of Congress to help keep the Solutions Not Bailouts proposal for Phase 2 of multiemployer pension reform on track for consideration later this year. Lawmakers are continuing to consider the MCAA and NCCMP coalition proposal to allow multiemployer pension plan trustees more options for restructuring plans to avoid the risks associated with pension plan asset volatility. New plan designs would reallocate that risk more fairly.  MCAA is sharing the MCAA/Horizon analysis of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insolvency projections with legislators to make sure any further increases in PBGC insurance premiums keep to a minimum to help pay for PBGC's new partition authority for orphan beneficiaries in critical and declining plans, but not so steep or sudden as to drive health plans out of PBGC insured defined benefit plans altogether.

Join MSCA for the Dispatcher Professional Development Training Program (in St. Louis, MO, September 14-15, 2015). Service dispatchers are your company's primary representative with the client, serving as the epicenter of great customer service. Therefore, investing in these team members is just as critical to their success in their job function as it is to your bottom line. This two-day training will help new and experienced dispatchers understand their true role in the company and advance their careers as they contribute to your company's success. Class size is limited, so register today. Contact Sobeida Orantes with registration questions.