Nevada Local Technical Assistance Program

CalAPA Asphalt Pavement 101 Webinar
2022-03-16 09:00 - 2022-03-17 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
CalAPA’s enormously popular “Asphalt Pavement 101” class is a good overview of everything asphalt, touching on how asphalt pavements are designed, constructed and maintained. It is taught by Roger Smith, a former senior materials engineer with Caltrans and the Asphalt Institute, as well as a former executive director of CalAPA.

Pavement Marking Installation and Maintenance – Winnemucca
2022-03-16 08:00 - 13:30 | Winnemucca Convention Center, 50 W. Winnemucca Blvd, Winnemucca, NV, 89445, United States
This interactive 4.5-hour training explores the standard types and uses of pavement markings. It teaches how to prepare to install markings, and then apply and inspect the work. The training also explores the value of a pavement marking management system, and new and upcoming advancements in materials and equipment.
You will have opportunities to explore pavement marking resources—such as the MUTCD and a variety of local, state, and FHWA documents—and to use those resources to answer questions and make decisions that mirror on-the-job tasks. Be prepared to uncover valuable tips from across the country that your agency might use for installing and inspecting pavement markings, and dig into the Nevada specifications, plans, and field inspection guides.
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FHWA webinar: Project Bundling – Local Agency Partnering and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
2022-03-15 11:00 - 12:00
Project bundling is a comprehensive and accelerated delivery solution. It:

Streamlines design, contracting, and construction;
Allows agencies to capitalize on economies of scale to increase efficiency; and
Supports greater collaboration during project delivery and construction.

With passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), project bundling becomes even more relevant and important. The BIL specifically mentions project bundling and bridge bundling as alternative contracting methods for enhanced program delivery.
Local agencies and may bundle projects with other local or state agencies. For example, the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission is encouraging member agencies to bundle paving projects to expand treatment options not feasible in small quantities. This webinar will focus on case studies and model agreement templates for strategic partnerships.
Not able to attend the webinar on March 15? Listen to the prior project bundling webinar for local agencies or watch this project bundling video.

FHWA webinar—Project Bundling: Local Agency Partnering
2022-03-15 11:00 - 12:00
Project bundling can happen across agencies. States may create bundled projects with local agencies and local agencies may bundle projects with other local agencies. For example, the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission is encouraging member agencies to bundle paving projects to expand treatment options not feasible in small quantities. This webinar will focus on case studies and model agreement templates for strategic partnerships.

Pesticide Applicator Training – Las Vegas
2022-03-15 08:00 - 2022-03-16 15:00 | Santa Fe Station, 4949 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, NV, 89130, United States
This 2-day course is scheduled for March 15, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm PT through March 16, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm PT, 2022
A state-issued license to control pests and apply pesticides is required under Nevada state law. Licenses are issued by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. You must complete a general competency exam and a category exam prior to obtain the license.
This 2-day training prepares you to become a professional pest control applicator and pass the license examination. The class explains pest control and pesticide safety concepts. Topics include safe pesticide handling practices, herbicide classification, environmental protection, and noxious weed control. It also prepares you for the G-4 (Terrestial Weed) category examination.
The training program is approved for Nevada Continuing Education Units (CEU’s). For license renewal, twelve credit hours are required in a 4-year period.
Attend this class if you prepare, store, handle, or apply pesticides or supervise those who use pesticides. This includes:

Road maintenance and construction workers.
Current pesticide applicators seeking Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or license renewal.
Government agency personnel who need to obtain their pest control license.

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Flagger Training – Las Vegas
2022-03-15 07:00 - 11:30 | Southern NV Laborers Training Center, 1750 E Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV, 89104, United States
The Southern Nevada Laborers Union co-sponsors this 4-hour certification course, which has been approved by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) and covers procedures for flaggers working on NDOT projects. All flaggers on these projects must have a certification of training in their possession while working. Topics include work zone hazards and safety; state regulations; flagging personal protective equipment; and flagging procedures.
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Pesticide Applicator Training – Reno
2022-03-08 08:00 - 2022-03-09 15:00 | Hyatt Place Reno-Tahoe Airport, 1790 E. Plumb Lane, Meeting Place 1 & 2, Reno, NV, 89502, United States
This 2-day course is scheduled for March 8, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm PT through March 9, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm PT, 2022
A state-issued license to control pests and apply pesticides is required under Nevada state law. Licenses are issued by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. You must complete a general competency exam and a category exam prior to obtain the license.
This 2-day training prepares you to become a professional pest control applicator and pass the license examination. The class explains pest control and pesticide safety concepts. Topics include safe pesticide handling practices, herbicide classification, environmental protection, and noxious weed control. It also prepares you for the G-4 (Terrestial Weed) category examination.
The training program is approved for Nevada Continuing Education Units (CEU’s). For license renewal, twelve credit hours are required in a 4-year period.
Attend this class if you prepare, store, handle, or apply pesticides or supervise those who use pesticides. This includes:

Road maintenance and construction workers.
Current pesticide applicators seeking Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or license renewal.
Government agency personnel who need to obtain their pest control license.

Click here for further information.

Selecting the Right Pavement Preservation Projects web conference
2022-03-03 08:30 - 11:30
A successful pavement preservation program is built upon an agency’s ability to select the right pavements for pavement preservation. This 3-hour training identifies core decision-making factors for project selection, focusing on the types of distress and pavement/environmental conditions encountered in Nevada. The training also describes additional factors the agency can include in the selection process based on its pavement data collection program and pavement management software capabilities.
By the end of the training, you will be able to:

Describe distresses common to flexible pavements.
Identify factors to consider when selecting projects for pavement preservation.
Describe the condition of a pavement using pavement data.

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First Aid/CPR Certification through Associated General Contractors of Nevada (March)
2022-03-03 08:00 - 12:00
This class will cover adult CPR and First Aid. This class is open to all wishing to attend. Cost includes training materials and a two year certificate of completion
AGC members will be billed. Payment for non-member will be required, in advance, to secure spot in class.
AGC Building – 5400 Mill Street, Reno, NV
Cost: $75 AGC Member/ $95 Nonmember

Roundabout Design (Las Vegas)
2022-03-02 08:30 - 17:00 | Santa Fe Station, 4949 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, NV, 89130, United States
Roundabouts are a proven safety countermeasure, substantially reducing crashes resulting in serious injury or death. Attend this 1-day, in-person class to learn about roundabout safety benefits. Topics include roundabout safety, design, and single/multi-lane analysis issues, as well as pedestrian and bicyclist accommodations, signage, and pavement markings.
Find out more here.

Roundabout Design (Reno)
2022-03-01 08:30 - 17:00 | Hilton Garden Inn, 9920 Double R. Blvd, Reno, NV, 89521

OSHA 10 Training for Construction (Reno)
2022-03-01 08:00 - 2022-03-02 13:30, 2022-01-25 08:00 - 2022-01-26 13:30 | TMCC Safety Center, 475 Edison Way, Reno, NV, 89502, United States
OSHA 10 Training for Construction ensures you understand how to navigate common job-site hazards so that you feel safe at work. Primarily, this involves spotting, avoiding, and reporting safety and health risks encountered on a daily basis.
The training includes best practices on how to prevent slipping, tripping, getting struck by an object, electrocution, and getting caught in between objects or machinery. Additionally, the training helps increase your knowledge about construction-specific safety measures under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.
You will also understand your employer’s responsibility for workplace safety, as well as the rights OSHA gives you as a worker and how to file a complaint if the workplace isn’t living up to its safety obligations.
This course is for entry-level employees doing construction and construction-related work. Learn more here.

FHWA Every Day Counts Webinar: Implementing Digital As-Builts
2022-02-28 12:30 - 13:30
The FHWA is offering this great opportunity for transportation professionals to share with their peers how they have advanced the use of Digital As-Built plans within their highway agencies.

CalAPA webinar: Quality Asphalt Paving
2022-02-24 09:00 - 11:30
By popular demand, CalAPA is pleased to offer an intensive, 2.5 hours webinar class on “Quality Asphalt Paving.” New pavement specifications, technology and owner expectations are changing faster than you can say “goodbye incentives, hello deductions.” In this fast-paced class, longtime paving company owner turned asphalt pavement consultant Skip Brown will provide a practical, “boots on the ground” course for what makes for a high-quality paving operation, best practices as well as how to identify and avoid problems. What you don’t know can cost you!

CalAPA webinar: Asphalt Forensics
2022-02-24 08:00 - 12:00
When pavements fail, it is important to understand why so that the proper remedy can be applied. This course covers the myriad of problems that can contribute to pavement failures, and a step-by-step approach (forensic engineering) to determining the cause and developing a solution. The course is taught by a nationally noted expert in the area of pavement forensics, Tim Murphy, who has conducted similar sessions around the United States.

WVLTAP: Tips for Giving a Deposition in a Roadway Lawsuit
2022-02-23 10:00 - 10:30
Depositions are a question-and-answer session in which a witness gives testimony under oath in response to questions from an attorney. They are a key part of the information gathering phase in any lawsuit. It is not uncommon for roadway personnel at all levels of state and local roadway agencies to be called to give a deposition in a roadway lawsuit. This flash webinar will explain what a deposition is, discuss how to prepare, and offer tips for giving a deposition.

CalAPA webinar: Asphalt Pavement 101
2022-02-16 09:00 - 2022-02-17 11:30
CalAPA’s enormously popular “Asphalt Pavement 101” class is a good overview of everything asphalt, touching on how asphalt pavements are designed, constructed and maintained. It is taught by Roger Smith, a former senior materials engineer with Caltrans and the Asphalt Institute, as well as a former executive director of CalAPA. Attendees of this class can earn CEU credit via a nationally recognized Registered Continuing Education Program

Minnesota LTAP virtual workshop: Asphalt Pavement Rehabilitation: Products, Processes, and Strategies
2022-02-15 06:30 - 13:30
This workshop provides an overview of the available technology and tools that make implementing an effective asphalt pavement rehabilitation program feasible. A successful pavement rehabilitation program encompasses a full range of rehabilitation strategies as well as maintenance treatments, with the goal of enhancing pavement performance (ride, quality, safety, service life, etc.) and life (LCC, pavement durability).
The workshop has recently been updated to provide attendees with the most current information, tools, and technologies. It offers guidance that can be used throughout the project development process, giving agencies the information they need to successfully select, develop, and construct the best rehabilitation process for their selected roadways.

Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths webinar: Improving Safety for Aging Drivers...and We Are All Aging
2022-02-09 08:00 - 09:00
Learn about age-related changes, tools that help to objectively identify the impairment, actions to consider when the aging driver is unsafe, and options that can help increase older driver safety while maintaining the sensitivity needed when balancing the need to save lives with concerns regarding loss of independence.

AASHTO TSP-2 program–Arkansas LTAP webinar: Low Cost Maintenance to Save Bridges
2022-02-08 13:00 - 14:30
The AASHTO TSP-2 program, in partnership with the Arkansas LTAP, is pleased to announce a Bridge Preservation Training for Local Agencies. The 90-minute course is specifically designed as an introductory to understanding the basics of bridge preservation and is geared towards meeting the needs of local agencies. This virtual training is being offered free of charge. Participants will gain a general understanding of why preservation is important, how to identify good candidates for preservation, what activities are available and an idea of cost and degree of difficulty with performing the work. A variety of examples have been developed to help participants understand the importance of incorporating these bridge preservation activities into their work plan.

PPRA/FHWA Webinar: Asphalt Emulsions 201 Beyond the Basics
2022-01-27 11:00 - 12:30
In 2020, PPRA/FHWA provided an excellent webinar introducing the basics of asphalt emulsion chemistry and the manufacturing of asphalt emulsions. This presentation will build on that platform and look deeper into the main components of asphalt and their contribution to performance as well as at the state of the art chemistries now being used and the various properties imparted. We will look at how asphalt binder and emulsifiers affect such properties as surface area and surface tension and how this impacts emulsion stability, properties like viscosity, aggregate interaction and wetting properties.

Join Sallie Houston, Arkema-Road Science, and Dr. Andrew Braham, University of Arkansas, for some next level discussion on asphalt emulsions.

FHWA Every Day Counts Concrete Overlays: A Proven Technology Webinar
2022-01-24 10:30 - 12:00
The Targeted Overlay Pavement Solutions (TOPS) Every Day Counts team is hosting its first concrete overlays webinar. Participants will hear about challenges and possible solutions, how to determine value, how to get started, and what resources are available. The webinar will also include highlights from ten concrete overlay projects.

FHWA webinar—Project Bundling: Preconstruction
2022-01-18 11:00 - 12:00
Delivering a bundled project depends on several factors—which project delivery method is chosen, what effort is necessary to secure environmental determination and permits, which risks the agency has responsibility for, and other factors specific to the agency. This webinar will highlight the steps to setting up a strategic bundling program as outlined in the FHWA Bridge Bundling Guidebook and in the Advanced Project Bundling Quick Start Reference.

Low-Cost Roadway Safety Improvements
2022-01-18 08:30 - 2022-01-19 11:00
The purpose of this workshop is to show participants ways to reduce fatalities and injuries caused by road departures and collisions with fixed objects, as well as collision at rural intersections. Low cost solutions for keeping the driver on the road will be taught with a focus on selection and implementation. The forgiving concept will be covered when a vehicle departs the roadway. Clear zones and what to do with hazards in them will be discussed. The material will be presented with a combination of interactive lecture, group discussions and activities.
After completing this course, you will be able to:

Understand why crash reduction is important.
Identify safety issues.
List ways to keep the driver on the road with low cost solutions.
Define a clear zone and describe what to do with hazards in it.

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First Aid/CPR Certification through Associated General Contractors of Nevada
2022-01-12 08:00 - 12:00

Practical Math web conference
2022-01-11 08:30 - 2022-01-12 10:30
Register now for Nevada LTAP’s free online training for Practical Math: Using Common Math Skills to Solve Everyday Problems on the Job. This two-part workshop is being held on January 11 and 12 (8:30–10:30 am PT both days), and builds on basic math skills to solve common on the job problems.
This workshop is for anyone who needs to solve common on the job problems—using the math you already know! Whether you love it, hate it, or are ambivalent about math—the simple things you already can do will help you to produce units of measure like the volume of a cylinder, the square footage of an area; flatten a slope, or ascertain whether you have enough supplies or equipment on hand to finish a job, and more.
This course builds on basic math skills that you learned in earlier web-based training or proved mastery of by passing the opt-out exam. Then by using a step by step approach, complex problems you encounter at work will be broken down into manageable problems. You will identify what you need to know, what you already know, and how to proceed. You will be encouraged to ask questions, work through some problems, and build your confidence in what you can do.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Perform calculations by using the proper order of math processes.
Identify the best solution path for job-related word problems.
Convert a problem into a mathematical equation.
Calculate formulas to solve typical job-related math problems.

Iowa LTAP webinar: Low-Cost Safety Improvements for Signalized Intersections
2022-01-07 10:00 - 11:00
Topics include improvements at signalized intersections including pedestrian and bicycle treatments. A synthesis of countermeasures and examples of their associated crash reduction factors are identified from either the CMF Clearinghouse or other relevant publications and both are presented in this webinar.

OSHA 10 Training for Construction (Reno)
2022-01-04 08:00 - 2022-01-05 13:30 | TMCC Safety Center, 475 Edison Way, Room 223, Reno, NV, 89502, United States

Every Day Counts (EDC) webinar – Targeted Overlay Pavement Solutions: Crack Attenuating Mixtures and High Performance Thin Overlays
2021-12-08 10:00 - 11:00
Interest from New Jersey DOT, research performed by Rutgers University, and cooperation from suppliers and contractors, has turned HPTO into the “work horse” of the NJDOT pavement preservation program. Since 2015, NJDOT has used HPTO on more than 1,000 lane miles to seal pavement and improve ride quality. Agency staff say it causes minimal impact on traffic with short road closures, and adds approximately 10 years service life.
NJDOT uses HPTO to keep up with increased traffic demands without adding depth to the pavement. This is significant because the Department of Environmental Protection rarely allows the agency to raise road elevations. NJDOT uses HPTO in areas with vertical clearance concerns, guardrails, and curb and gutter. Including performance requirements for the mixture, successful construction practices, and requiring the project engineer to approve specifications, are believed to be key factors in the success of HPTO as a pavement preservation tool in New Jersey. Learn more about NJDOT’s use of HPTO during the December 8 webinar. Register Now
NJDOT’s Robert Blight will share many lessons learned during the webinar. In this short video, Blight explains how the agency overcame funding challenges to create a strong pavement program that incorporates targeted overlay pavement solutions.
