Skills Training Classes
Our standardized training classes provide all the skills and health and safety training a craft worker needs to perform at top efficiency and best-practices. Our standardized curriculum is developed by a curriculum committee and reviewed regularly to make sure that the latest in tools and materials are known, researched and taught.

During the year 2000, the P&AT LMCI, working with the IUPAT’s Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund (now the Finishing Trades Institute), distributed 207,953 curriculum materials to IUPAT district councils for use. Currently, the training program offers more than 157 classes for IUPAT apprentices and journey-level workers.

Two all-craft classes (Power Tool Safety Awareness I and Ladders) were introduced in 2000, plus four new classes for floor coverers, four new classes for sign and display, two for painters, one for drywall finishers, and one for glaziers.

Right now, an all-craft curricula on reading blueprints is in development with architects and the curriculum committee. An industrial painting curricula is in the works.

Classes are taught at our over 168 training centers across North America.