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News:
LOCAL 112 WILL BE SENDING FORMS FOR NOMINATIONS
Members should receive nomination forms for the upcoming elections this year. These forms will be mailed out in May. Nominations are due in June 2010.
See the drop down menu titled Member's Rights for election information
LOCAL 112 IS EXPANDING THE TRAINING CENTER
The Board of Trustees have approved the construction of an expansion to our training center. The new facility will be located at the Anderson, IN site. It will be approximately 5000 square feet.
There will be two new classrooms, a shooting vault, film processing room, and restrooms in the new building. We will be using the new facility to deliver training in radiography and digital radiography.
We are expecting construction to begin early in 2010.
We have been approved for purchasing a new digital radiography system. The photo below is the CR system we are expecting to purchase early in 2010.
Local 112 is also expecting to purchase a DR system in 2010 as well.
BET YOU DID NOT KNOW THIS
Randall Hughes, Local 112 business agent, holds the Tennessee state record for Bighead Carp
This fish weighs 92lbs 10oz. and was caught at Reelfoot Lake on March 23, 2008
General News
Date Edited: 8 August 08
UT
QUALITY HAS CHANGED THEIR HOUSTON ADDRESS
Their new address is:
11050 W. Little
York
Bldg. Q
Houston, TX 77048
APPLUS RTD ACQUIRES JANX INTEGRITY
GROUP
After some
negotiating, RTD acquires JANX. This latest acquisition
follows a trend of large corporations merging numerous
NDT companies to form very large NDT companies. John
Newland plans to continue to head the company
and states that employees should not be concerned about
jobs and the continued operation of the
company.
CLICK HERE TO READ NICE
ARTICLE ON JOHN NEWLAND AND SALE OF JANX
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS
ARTICLE ON CARLYLE GROUP WEBSITE REGARDING SALE OF JANX
WARNING: THERE
HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING ON VARIOUS
PROJECTS
Local 112 has
recently recieved reports that some of our members have
received excessive exposure to carbon monoxide. One
excessive exposure has resulted in a fatality. Signatory
companies are installing carbon monoxide detectors in their
darkrooms to prevent future overexposures. Please do not
disable these detectors by removing batteries. If these
detectors are alarming, then there is a high probablity that
the carbon monoxide levels are unsafe at that time.
Contact the company's safety officer immediatly when the
detector is alarming. Carbon monoxide cannot be smelled
or detected by human senses. Symptoms often present
themselves many days after overexposure. Click on the
link below to read valuable information on the
prevention, symptoms, and treatment of carbon monoxide
poisoning.
GUIDE TO CARBON MONOXIDE
POISONING
Useful information to
prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
Union Purchases High Quality Laser Film
Digitizer And Radiography Darkroom
In response to
increasing demand for highly trained Radiographers, the
training center acquired a film digitizer which will be used
to produce a large library of radiographs which can be studied
from any computer. We have 1000s of radiographs available for
scanning at this time and we expect to take the digitizer
around the country to acquire many more. This equipment
is very high end and is used by hospitals
in archiving medical radiographs. Randall Hughes,
Tony Tidwell, and William Seaton have attended training
offered by General Electric on the operation of this
equipment.
 
New Classrooms Are Added And Facility
Adds Multimedia Training
Two new classrooms have been
outfitted. This bring our total number to three.
They were recently needed. During training season we
will run three courses concurrently. These tables have
smoked glass tops and the chairs are well padded to assist the
members in their classroom napping.
We have two big
screen high definition LCD televisions which will be mounted
in the facility. These televisions will be outfitted to
allow presentations via laptop. Also they are outfitted
with high definition DVD and VCR to allow multimedia content
to be displayed. They are the latest equipment acquired
to present the highest quality of NDT training to our
membership.
 
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