Elements of the Training Program
Local 38's Apprenticeship Program is comprised of plumbing, steamfitting and refrigeration sections. Apprentices train in one of these three categories. Each skill requires learning a vast body of specific knowledge. Apprentices receive detailed instruction in job safety, health, industry regulations, and the fundamental skills required for working with tools of the trade.
As apprentices advance through the program, job-site experience is supplemented with classroom instruction in pipe trades mathematics, reading blueprints and isometric drawings, computer-aided design (CAD), sanitation, codes, control systems, elements of hydraulics and heat, physics with an emphasis on liquids and gases, and plumbing, steamfitting or refrigeration and air conditioning theory.
Not only do apprentices learn how to handle any job in the Pipe Trades, they gain a much more important understanding of how to attack tough challenges and develop problem-solving strategies.
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