Description

To earn credit you must complete these free TC3 online courses.

Asset Management for Transportation

(https://store.transportation.org/Item/TrainingDetail/2496)

This training explains the basics of asset management and why it is important. This training will provide new terms and new ways of thinking about what you’re already doing. More importantly, you'll understand why it's so important to be strategic and systematic when you're responsible for managing huge numbers of assets.

This training contains the following lessons:

• Lesson 1: What is Transportation Asset Management? This lesson will explain the concept of asset management, give examples of how asset management is used in the planning process, and explain how current asset management practices have been impacted by past transportation needs.
• Lesson 2: Asset Management Principles and Practices. This lesson lists the categories of activity that inform spending decisions, explains how policy goals and objectives impact asset management, relates planning and programming to managing assets, describes how asset management principles apply to program delivery, explains why system monitoring is necessary, and explains how quality data and analysis impact asset management.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain what transportation asset management is and why it is important; and
• Describe the asset management principles and practices used to make informed spending decisions.

Who Should Take This Course: This course is intended for managers from State departments of transportation and other transportation agencies who have the responsibility for decision-making in one or more areas addressed by transportation asset management. In addition, those who manage individual assets or provide critical information to senior managers, or who have direct responsibility for meeting specific transportation system performance or program delivery targets, are also excellent candidates for attending the course.

Ethics Awareness

(https://store.transportation.org/Item/TrainingDetail/2494)

The Ethics Awareness for the Transportation Industry course contains good practices from various agencies. The topics of discussion in this training are conflict of interest, safety, fraud, falsification of documentation, reporting ethical concerns, gifts and favors, fairness, personal use of agency property, and consequences.

Not all State agencies' codes of conduct are the same but they all demand similar ethical behavior of their employees. Be sure to access to your agency's codes or check with your supervisor for more information specific to your organization. Each State agency/company has their own work rules, which the viewer needs to review and follow.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe agency expectations on ethics;
• Give an example of a current code of conduct policy;
• Recognize and practice good ethics as an employee in the transportation industry; and
• Explain the consequences when rules and regulations are not followed.

Who Should Take This Course: This training is intended for State and local public agency personnel and their industry counterparts involved in the construction, maintenance, and testing process for highways and structures.

Job Hazard Analysis

(https://store.transportation.org/Item/TrainingDetail/2567)

This course reviews what a job hazard analysis is and why it should be performed. More specifically, this course identifies the information that should be documented during a job hazard analysis and provides example jobs and potential hazards that may be encountered.

The purpose of this training is to explain what a job hazard analysis is and offer guidelines to help you conduct a step-by-step analysis. This information should be used to analyze jobs and recognize workplace hazards. This course contains three lessons:

1. Job Hazard Analysis Overview;
2. Job Hazard Analysis Forms; and
3. Job Hazard Examples.

Please refer to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) website (Safety Manual) for a Job Hazard Analysis Form. Even if your agency is not directly governed by OSHA, your State agencys version of OSHA has likely adopted the standards set forth by OSHA, which will be discussed in this training.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain what job hazard analysis is, and why it is important;
• Describe the types of information that should be documented in a Job Hazard Analysis Form; and
• Given an example situation, list potential hazards.

Registration

To access for free, register with your agency email address and then use promotion code D5X3-B3D9-52CB-4XCX  

Accessing the Course

Upon completing your online registration, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of your registration. To access the course, please visit store.transportation.org and login with your account email and password. Once you have been enrolled, your course will appear on your account under My Trainings.

If for any reason you do not have access to the course after enrolling, please call 1-800-231-3475 or Email us at aashto@pbd.com for assistance.

Technical Requirements

In order to view TC3 training, you must be on Windows OS 7, 8, 10, or Mac OS 11 or later. If you are trying to access the course from a mobile device or using Windows 8.1 RT, the courses will not load as they are not yet licensed for mobile devices.

Credit

Students will earn Roads Scholar Program: Leadership Certificate (1.0 Credit) and 7.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).  To earn this credit, students are required to send a copy of the course completion certificate to mnltap.umn.edu.

More Information

For content and registration-related questions, please contact AASHTO at 1-800-231-3475.