Program Areas: Leadership, Supervision, and Administration (LSA)

From contracts to conflict and everything in between, Leadership, Supervision and Administration offers courses to reinforce your leadership skills and help demystify contract law.

Reduced Load Period Model Overview Training

This is a quick course that will take less than 60 minutes of your time to complete before using the RLP model forms.

MTO (The Ontario Ministry of Transportation) and Good Roads are partnering to work together to encourage Good Roads member municipalities/First Nations to support and adopt MTO’s RLP Onset and Removal Model supported by data from its Road Weather Information System (RWIS).

MTO’s system allows municipalities to access frost depth, moisture, and temperature data by adopting the RLP Onset and Removal Model. The model will allow municipalities to optimize the timing of RLPs, including shortening the duration when conditions permit, which will help support the agriculture, agri-business and trucking industry, while protecting road infrastructure.

Please note, access to the course may take up to 24 hours following registration.

This is ideal for: Public Works Directors, Road Supervisors, Directors, Transportation, and County Engineers

Creating Levels of Service & Standard Operating Procedures

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