Training
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Journeyman Upgrading Schedule
Please notify the Training Directors Office if you plan to attend any of these classes at 423)698-4198. You may also pick up a complete detail schedule for the available JIW Upgrading Classes from the Training Directors Office.
All Classes will be held at Local 704''s Training Center.
2701 Belle Arbor Ave.
Chattanooga TN. 37406
(See the Training Directors Notes for all classes scheduled for the month.)
JIW Welding
For those wishing to practice and or test on their welding Certifications
Welding Practice is on Tuesday & Thursday evenings from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.For rain out days and days off call before you come. Welding Certification Test are given on Wednesdays from 8:00am - 4:00pm. If you are coming to test, you must notify this office 24 hours in advance.BRING YOUR TOOLS TO WELDING PRACTICE AND WELD TEST, welding hood, gloves, flashlight, wire brush & chipping hammer, small chisels , slagg pics & a small ball peen hammer.
Note: For those with AWS Certification papers be sure and keep your "Continuity Log Book" up to date and mail a copy of the log book in when you recieve a notice of renewal. If you have not recieved a renewal notice from the Ironworkers International Welding Department, 1 month prior to the expiration of your certifications, please notify the Training Director''s office.
The iron working industry is very strenuous and most tedious. An Ironworker must be alert at all times in order to perform the duties of connecting, welding, installing decking, in addition to climbing, lifting, sitting, standing, bending and pulling of the steel in the erection of buildings and spanning of bridges.
An Ironworker is a stalwart individual with a great deal of upper body strength for twisting, turning, and awkward postures of the back. Blueprint and drafting reading are a part of the training to become an Ironworker and safety is a plus in training and working side by side with co-workers and other Craftsmen.
Iron work is performed inside and outside in most weather conditions.
What does an Ironworker do? On an average work day an Iron worker will lift,carry,push and pull material, climb, kneel, bend, stoop, crawl, lay on his/her back or stomach and be in every other conceivable position.
Definition of Iron Worker Activity and Physical Requirments:
What is required of him/her physically?
- Lift from 5lbs. to over 175lbs.It can be from an overhead position to lifting from the ground or from one side to the other side.
- Carry material on their backs from one place to another.
- Push or pull material into position for placement
- Climb rebar walls;towers,cranes,ladders,and structural iron columns straight up to possibly greater than 40 ft. in the air.
- Kneel to drill holes in concrete, to tie and place rebar in beams and to weld and caulk.
- Crawl on hands and knees for welding, finish work, rebar ect.
- Bend over to tie rebar slabs, beams, joists, sticking bridging, welding, decking ect.
- Strong grip to hold tag lines during steel erection, thread cables on cranes, tower cranes and personnel hoists, to hold onto columns while connecting in midair, and to hold iron in place before it is to be welded.
- Balance and coordination while walking beams or bar joist, sometimes less than 3 inches wide while as much as 500 feet above ground.
- Hearing acuity is needed for signaling cranes with radios.
- Sight and Depth perception is a must while flagging a rig, or walking a beam, as well as peripheral vision for acute awareness of all things around him.
- Strong lungs and general respiratory strength needed not only because of physical exertion, but also because an Ironworker can be exposed to fumes while welding or torch cutting metals and is constantly exposed to dust, dirt particles and insulation meterials in the air.
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These are the details of the most obvious work performed by Iron Workers. As each construction is different, other situations requiring other physical strengths may arise.
An Iron Worker must be able to perform and/or all of the above listed activities in order to stay employable at his /her trade.
