Our Training Department has two new contract trainers. Peter Crowley, a career lineworker from Vermont, and Tom O’Connor, a former lineworker and General Line Foreman from Reading Light Department, have joined the NEPPA team as contract trainers. Both of these gentlemen bring a great deal of experience and knowledge to the NEPPA training staff. We look forward to working with both trainers as NEPPA moves forward in its endeavor to provide the best safety and technical training possible.

I would also like to inform the NEPPA membership that we will be providing OSHA Certification training for all of our trainers in the near future. Our goal is to have all our trainers certified in OSHA Regulations by early next year. We have had contact with Keene State College and their OSHA Training Institute Education Center, which will be the source of this training. It is also our goal to bring OSHA Compliance to all NEPPA systems and to ensure that all our training reflects that intention. Stay safe!