Mining Operations training is conducted in conjunction with a conditional job offer. You can find out more information at the MAPTS Website: http://www.alaska.net/~mapts/
Mining and Petroleum Training Service (MAPTS) provides health, safety and environmental training for industry in Alaska.
The Underground Mining Operations Camp and the Surface Mining Operations Camp programs orient the student to the rigors of camp life and mining operations in a training mine that simulates activities of an actual underground and surface working mine. Students begin the program with MSHA compliance training, followed by a module that addresses employability skills. An important feature of the training develops and refines hand-eye coordination and muscle memory mastery as the student completes operational tasks required of underground heavy equipment operators using state-of-the-art multi-million dollar heavy equipment simulators. The simulated training is a testing ground that instills recognized Industry and manufacturer’s best practices, policies and procedures prior to the student quickly advancing to hands-on operator training in the actual heavy equipment currently used in a mine. Students also participate in scaling, bolting, jackleg drilling, mucking (LHD) operations and utility work. The training delivered within a ten (10) hour day, over two (2) fourteen-day shifts, incorporates a Soft Skills module which provides an essential life skills component that is reiterated throughout the program, as well as daily pre-shift, on-shift, and post-shift activities.
The Underground Mining Operations Camp and the Surface Mining Operations Camp imbues the exemplary workforce safety standards required in Alaska, the Yukon and across the U.S. and Canada and develops vetted, skilled workers.
Developing a skilled local workforce for all phases of the mining process is of significant value to the mining industry. It helps companies lower operating costs and reduces the need to move personnel from other parts of the country. In addition to reducing safety and environmental risks, it allows earned wages to remain in the State or Province. MAPTS team of competent instructors builds a culture of success in both the classroom and the industrial job site, with the goal of putting qualified Alaskans to work.
Mining and Petroleum Training Service (MAPTS) provides health, safety and environmental training for industry in Alaska.
All miners in the United States are required, by Federal law, to have earned a current, signed, safety certificate issued by an instructor that is certified by the US Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to teach that course. MSHA classes are delivered across the entire State of Alaska by Instructors who have worked in the Mining industry. MAPTS is designated as the State Provider by MSHA and our Instructors are “blue card” certified and subject matter experts in the subjects they teach.
To receive the certification a new miner must attend 24 hours of training for a surface (outside the mine tunnel) occupation and/or 32 hours of safety training for an underground occupation. This certification is only valid if the miner attends an annual 8 hour refresher course each year, for the classification of the certificate they have earned. There are currently 700 miners employed in the region by mining companies, not including those working for contractors. Contractors are also often required to undergo safety training.
