A message from
the President of Florida Safety Training,
Patrick Joyce

Over the last 22 years, I personally have conducted safety training
classes all over Florida, that have included
employees from each of the county, municipal, private construction, and consultant engineering companies listed in the sidebar at right.

 

With over 20 years experience with a large municipal utility as a Safety Manager, and with over 10 years of concurrent experience teaching safety classes for the Florida Section, American Water Works Association (FS-AWWA) and the Florida Water Pollution Control and Operators Association (FWPC&OA), I have instructed thousands of the dedicated, hard-working individuals in the utilities industry.

They are the serviceworkers who survey, install, inspect and repair roads, water, sewer, electric power, natural gas, stormwater, telephone, data communications, and signaling facilities.  It takes tremendous skill and effort to install this infrastructure accurately, safely, and in a timely manner.  These professionals have extraordinary committment to "get the job done", and do what it takes to make these systems hold together.

As companies began coming to me in 1999, asking for safety training and certification, I realized that there were very few providers in South Florida.  And so I started Florida Underground Safety Training to begin meeting that demand, The company incorporated in 2009 and changed the name to Florida Safety Training, Inc..

My courses are presented in such a way to make the learning experience both interesting and challenging. The student sees valid and authoritative videos, meaningful on-site photos, accurate and approved engineering diagrams, and colorful illustrations to make the topics hit home and come alive.

This Intermediate Workzone Traffic Control course is fully approved by the State of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Maintenance of Traffic Committee (MOTC).  The approval procedure requires the MOTC to thoroughly review the course agenda, slide presentation, student handouts, exercises, final examination, and even the exam answer sheet and certificate.

See the state rules for training program approval at
Document Number 625-010-010 "Maintenance of Traffic Training" 1/20/05.

Florida Safety Training is approved as Provider #102 and this can be verified at the State website by clicking on the link below:

FDOT Office of Roadway Design - MOT Providers