Be prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at your municipality this winter season with this one-day intensive workshop.
Managing Operations is designed for winter road maintenance professionals, from managers, supervisors to operators and transportation professionals.
Hear from experts in the field covering a wide variety of winter road maintenance issues from communicating your message, technology, MMS, safety, legal obligations, salt management, hiring and retaining talent to dealing with operator harassment.
This one-day workshop includes an exhibitor hall and networking time to discuss winter road issues with fellow industry experts.
Join like-minded individuals all under one roof discussing best practices and new ideas in protecting yourself, your team, and your municipality during the winter road clearing season.
Course Description
This course is designed to illustrate the necessity to create and maintain accurate and current records with goals and targets of roadway maintenance standards together with documentation to mitigate municipal risk arising from perceived hazardous road conditions within the municipalities’ road allowances. This course specifically will emphasize the need to produce and retain an appropriate Levels of Service document with a supplementary Standard Operating Procedures document.
Learning objectives / Course goals:
- Recognize and Define the influence that Risk Management/Record-Keeping and Asset Management impose on Levels of Service and Standard Operating Procedures
- Interpret the role of an effective LOS and SOP within a municipality
- Develop a practicable LOS and SOP balancing Risk Analysis, Asset Management and Best Practices
- Examine the process required to create a LOS and SOP
- Propose and produce a sustainable validated LOS and SOP
Required Texts, Materials, or Equipment
- Participation in a Good Roads course with some basic knowledge of municipal risk mitigation
- Participants should attend with an understanding of road maintenance equipment and road classifications/priorities
Major Assignments: Descriptions
Participants will be required to, by course completion provide the instructor with a brief example (Paper) of a LOS or SOP paper plus completion of the course exam.
Class Participation
Participants will be encouraged in an open forum to discuss their challenges and the positives of working with LOS and SOP documents.
Course Grading
Explanation of Grading System
- Exam : 75 % of total grade (Approximately 20 questions)
- Paper : 25 % of total grade (Practical of creating a LOS or SOP)
An overall grade of 65% is required to pass
