Culvert installation course

LTAP Courses

Please review the trainings below. If you need to register for a training, please follow the link to the registration portal. You will be able to find dates, time, and locations of the appropriate trainings there.

Safety
- Equipment/Chainsaw/Mower Safety
  - This class is centered around the safe operation of equipment that is often used in the day-to-day operations of the county and city workers. The class will include discussion and demonstration of safety gear and how to select the right size of chainsaw for a job. The instructor will demonstrate safe starting procedures as well as tree and limb sawing practices. There will be discussion on storage, gas and oil mix, oil usage, and chain selection and sharpening. Additionally, there will be a demonstration of brush-chipper equipment to demonstrate safe elimination of brush and limbs that are being cut. The class also includes roadside mowing safety procedures including traffic control. There will be discussion on slope mowing to include both directional mowing and limitations. The class will also discuss tractor safety including hookup and all tractor/brush hog safety equipment that is available with standard equipment.
- - Who should attend? – Maintenance personnel, crew leaders, crew members, supervisors, street superintendents, and emergency management.
- Defensive Driving
  - The goal of the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course is to provide drivers with knowledge and safe driving techniques to prevent collisions and violations. This course focuses on collision prevention through hazard recognition and the application of collision-avoidance techniques. In addition, the course addresses common driving violations that result in collisions, and ways to change driving habits to eliminate moving violations.
- - Who should attend? – County Maintenance crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews.
- Excavation Safety – Roads Scholar Course #2
  - In this course the student will identify basic hazards associated with excavations and trenching, recognize the need for strict adherence to benching and shoring requirements, recognize the responsibilities of the competent person, recognize the elements of soil stability and basic classifications, recognize types of systems used to protect workers, and determine basic emergency response procedures.
- - Who should attend? – County Commissioners, City and Tribal Staff, and Field Personnel (maintenance, construction, consultants, and contractors).
- MUTCD – Workzone Safety – Roads Scholar Course #4
  - This course covers what is required to comply with Part VI of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), Temporary Traffic Control. This class familiarizes students with the theory of how traffic control devices and signs are properly used for safety in work zone situations including flagging procedures. It will also address how to make use of the MUTCD Typical Application and the development of Traffic Control Plans.
- - Who should attend? - City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
- Road Safety Audits
  - Road Safety Audits (RSA) provide an additional tool for roadway safety analysis. These are a formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection by an independent, multidisciplinary team. The team may include safety, operations, maintenance, and law enforcement officials. RSAs help answer what elements of the road may present a safety concern and, to what extent, to which road users, and under what circumstances. RSAs are a very low-cost countermeasure. The use of RSAs is increasing across the United States, in part due to crash reductions of up to sixty percent in locations where they have been applied.
- - Who should attend? - This class was developed to provide road safety audit training for transportation professionals. Engineers, road supervisors, crew leaders, transportation professionals, first responders, law enforcement and local agency officials interested in learning how to perform a road safety audit should attend this workshop.
- Safe Drainage Design and Maintenance
  - Safety on roadways, trails and sidewalks is critical to pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists. Designing and maintaining drainage systems that remove runoff from the traveled ways is key to a safe system. The drainage system is a combination of many features; curbs; gutters, pipes, inlets, and ditches. These storm drainage features can produce serious effects when not designed or maintained properly. Erosion and sediment buildup within the traveled way and clear zone can also contribute to the severity of crashes. Even end treatments and pipe openings must be designed and maintained to produce a safe component should an errant vehicle impact them. Your awareness about the potential risks associated with unsafe drainage features will be increased. Students will learn the necessity for maintaining drainage features, so they do not become hazards within the traveled way. We will also discuss administrative controls, personal protective equipment, and engineering controls that improve worker safety. By the end of the training, students will possess the knowledge to identify and mitigate the risks associated with stormwater drainage components on roadway systems.
- - Who should attend? - This class was developed for personnel who work around stormwater drainage components on roadways, trails, or walkways, either as a construction worker, an inspector, design engineer or visitor within the roadway traveled way. Previous experience with recognizing unsafe stormwater drainage conditions or maintaining stormwater drainage components is not required.
- Traffic Incident Management (TIM) – Roads Scholar Course #6
  - This class covers building teams who can work together in a coordinated manner, from the moment the first emergency call is made. You will learn the correct deployment of response vehicles and equipment, how to create a safe work area using traffic control devices, and techniques to speed up accident clearance with an emphasis on reducing the number of struck-by and deaths of roadway workers and responders, reducing secondary crashes, reducing on-scene times of responders of roadway incidents, and continuing public education regarding Oklahoma traffic laws pertaining to this issue.
  - Who should attend? -- City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews
View Available Courses
Infrastructure Management
- Aggregate Road Maintenance – Roads Scholar Course #1
  - This course covers the fundamentals of maintaining low-volume, rural roads. Road cross sections, culverts, soils, soils amendments, geo-synthetic fabrics, and chip sealing are all discussed.
- - Who should attend? – County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews.
- Bridge Preservation Fundamentals
  - This presentation defines bridge preservation terms and identifies commonly practiced bridge preservation activities. The instructor will also provide guidance on strategies for establishing or improving existing bridge preservation programs as part of an asset management program.
- - Who should attend? - This course is intended for federal, state, and local bridge engineers; bridge owners; and bridge preservation practitioners.
- Chip and Scrub Seal
  - This class is designed to provide participants with best practices for application when repairing roads. This class will discuss items such as drainage, road preparation, rate of emulsion to use, and amount of chips needed. This is a tool for transportation agencies to have a great training session before Chip Seal season begins.
- - Who should attend? - City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
- Concrete Basics
  - In this class, students will learn about concrete materials, best practices in construction, concrete issues, and repair basics. At the conclusion of this class students will be familiar with the best practices for concrete construction, including materials, quality testing, constructions, and repair basics.
- - Who should attend? - Maintenance personnel, crew leaders, crew members, supervisors, road foremen, and street superintendents.
- Pavement Preservation – Roads Scholar Course #5
- - This class includes topics related to pavement preservation concepts, process introduction, agency perspective, application techniques, site selection, combination treatments, and an opportunity for discussion with recognized industry leaders. Attendees will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of pavement preservation with an emphasis on micro surfacing, chip seal, and overlays.
- - Who should attend? – County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews.
- Pipe and Culvert Installation
  - A properly installed pipe should remain in service for 50 to 100 years with little or no repair. The focus of this class remains on promoting a solid understanding of installation, specifications, design requirements and material differences for pipe systems. Students will learn more about trench safety, pipe fundamentals, soil gradation and compaction, excavation, bedding, joining pipe, backfilling, and testing of storm drainage pipe. Students will also learn common crew tasks implemented during the installation and inspection of a properly installed storm drainage pipe. The training will help students identify the risks associated with pipe installation and ways to mitigate those risks. Students will be able to properly inspect, design, install, and accept both flexible and rigid pipe systems.
- - Who should attend? - This class was developed for inspectors, installers, and design engineers alike. Previous experience with storm drainage pipe installation is not required.
- Stormwater - Erosion and Sediment Control
  - This hybrid workshop combines both classroom and field training. The classroom portion of the training highlights both erosion and sediment control best management practices. It provides students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge about the requirements for erosion and sediment control for road construction sites. Students will demonstrate their knowledge about the causes of erosion and the proper techniques for installing best management practices to prevent erosion and control sediment on job sites. The class will also cover Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SW3P) including the requirements needed to obtain a permit, routine inspection checklists, and proper maintenance necessary to ensure your control methods remain effective.
- - Who should attend? – This class is ideal for anyone responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining erosion and sediment controls on roadway projects or responsible for managing Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans.
- Testing for Soil Properties – Roads Scholar Course #3
  - This course covers the tests used to determine the engineering characteristics of soils used to construct roadways and embankments. Sieve analysis, Atterburg limits, Proctors and Nuclear density tests are discussed and demonstrated. Emphasis is placed on explaining how these tests can be used to improve the characteristics of soils with soil amendments.
- - Who should attend? – City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews.
- Winter Road Maintenance
  - Oklahoma public agencies handle winter weather to keep the roads open. This training examines current methods of winter maintenance of the local transportation system and some newer technologies as well. The goals of this course are to provide an overview of current winter maintenance practices and identify tools for winter maintenance. This course will address the important winter maintenance issues related to driving in snow, snow plowing, sand and salting, and de-icing with chemicals.
- - Who should attend? – County Maintenance crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
View Available Courses
Workforce Development
- Bridge Welding Certification
  - Students will review the welds they will be required to perform on the AASHTO/AWS D 1.5M/D 1.5 welding code certiﬁcation test. They will also be evaluated to determine if they have the skills necessary to become certiﬁed. On day one and two an independent welding certiﬁcation ﬁrm will test students on AASHTO/AWS D1.5M/D 1.5. Those passing will be certiﬁed.
- - Who should attend? - This course is for experienced welders capable of passing the AASHTO/AWS D 1.5M/D 1.5 welding code certiﬁcation test.
- Construction Project Management – Roads Scholar Course #7
  - This two-day is a course that goes into detail on the various management tools available to efficiently run county and city road operations. The Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) and Gantt Charts are discussed in detail. Students work on several case studies using these methods in simulations of "real world" type projects.
- - Who should attend? – Transportation managers and professionals, engineers, road supervisors, crew leaders, and street superintendents.
- ELDT Train-the-Trainer
  - ELDT - Train the Trainer instruction is for State, County, Local and Tribal transportation entities desiring to provide ELDT theory and behind-the wheel (BTW) training materials, compliant with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration new ELDT regulations. Instruction will entail: A 2-day commitment: We recommend that each entity have a minimum of 2 eligible instructors. Encouraged to bring one administrative assistant for "record keeping and data collection" training.
  - Instructor Eligibility requirements: Holds CDL class B or higher, 2 years of CMV driving experience and/or meets state requirements for a CMV instructor. Holds CDL class B or higher, 2 years of experience as a CMV instructor and/or meets state requirements for a CMV instructor.
  - Preparations for training: A copy of each proposed instructor's CDL, an empty flash drive for curriculum, and a designated email and phone number for TPR.
- - Who should attend? – State, County, Local, and Tribal transportation entities desiring to provide ELDT theory and behind-the-wheel training materials.
- Plan Reading
- - This course covers how to read and interpret plans used for county and city road and bridge projects.
- - Who should attend? – County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews.
- Wildland Fire Training
  - This course addresses information that heavy-equipment operators should know when called out to assist fire fighters in wildland fire situations. Half of the class is spent learning the theory behind the use of heavy equipment in fighting fires, while the other half is devoted to field training exercises and practices employing the techniques taught.
- - Who should attend? - Maintenance personnel, crew leaders, crew members, supervisors, road foremen, street superintendents, and emergency management.
View Available Courses
Organizational Excellence
- Grant Writing and Administration
  - The Grant Writing workshop is designed to teach the basics of grant writing, while providing an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and practice the skills necessary to succeed in today's competitive grant writing environment. Hands-on activities and real-life scenarios will assist in providing an understanding of how to customize approaches to various entities and guidance on how to write clearly and concisely while organizing application content thereby increasing rates of success.
- - The Grant Administration workshop will provide guidance through the procurement process including a case study of the largest political corruption case in FBI history and the requirements of following 2 CFR Cost Principles for State, local and tribal governments to include procurement standards, competition, general procurement, and contract award as well as evaluation and selection of consultants and contractors.
- - Who should attend? - City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
- Leadership Skills
  - The most effective employees, and teams, are those who are both a good leader and follower. This course will discuss the concepts of leadership and followership, the difference between influence and power, the importance of social networks and building social capital, and leading effective teams.
- - Who should attend? - City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
View Available Courses
Specialized Training
- Heavy Equipment Training
  - This class teaches basic operating skills for different pieces of heavy equipment. The equipment can range from excavators, back-end loaders, compact skid steers, graders, etc. Maintenance procedures will be covered as well as operation safety.
- - Who should attend? - City Maintenance Crews, County Maintenance Crews, Local Public Works Departments, Tribal Communities, Wrecker Services, and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Crews.
View Available Courses
Additional Courses
- FHWA EDC
  - This course examines why pedestrians are involved in accidents and what can be done to prevent them. Safety methods discussed include crosswalk visibility enhancements, raised crosswalks, pedestrian crossing/refuge islands, rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFBs), pedestrian hybrid beacons (PHBs), road diets, and leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs).
- - Who should attend? – Transportation professionals and engineers.
View Available Courses

The Road Scholar Program

The Roads Scholar Program is an educational certification series offered to county, municipal and tribal government elected officials and their employees. It presents courses related to the technical aspects of planning, maintaining and constructing roads and bridges at the local and tribal government level. The series consists of eight courses that total approximately 112 hours of instruction and laboratory experience. Those who complete all of the courses are awarded a Roads Scholars completion certificate. The eight courses of the series are as follows:

Aggregate Road Maintenance

This one-day course covers the fundamentals of maintaining low volume roads. Drainage, road cross sections, culvert installation, soil properties and amendments, grading methods, use of geo-synthetics and chip sealing are all discussed.
Excavation Safety

This one-day course makes students aware of the dangers inherent with trenching and excavation. This enables them to identify and predict hazards and to take corrective measures to control them. After completion of the class, students are qualified to be named a Trench Competent Person by their employer.
Testing for Soil Properties

This two-day course covers the tests used to determine the engineering characteristics of soils used to construct roadways and embankments. Sieve analysis, Atterburg limits, Proctors and nuclear density tests are discussed and demonstrated. Emphasis is placed on explaining how these tests can be used to improve the characteristics of soils through the use of soil amendments.
MUTCD, Part 6

This one day course covers what is required to comply with Part VI of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), Temporary Traffic Control. The first day of the class familiarizes students with the theory of how traffic control devices and signs are properly used in temporary traffic control situations including flagging procedures. The second day of the class addresses how to make use of the MUTCD Typical Applications and the development of Traffic Control Plans
Pavement Preservation (When, Where, and How)

This one-day workshop includes topics related to pavement preservation concepts, process introduction, agency perspective, application techniques, site selection, combination treatments and an opportunity for discussion with recognized industry leaders. Attendees will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of Pavement Preservation with an emphasis on Micro Surfacing and Chip Seal.
Traffic Incident Management Basics

This 4-hour class is available to all disciplines of emergency responders, is a pre-requisite to attend the 6-hour TIMS Instructor class, and covers building teams who can work together in a coordinated manner, from the moment the first emergency call is made. You will learn the correct deployment of response vehicles and equipment, how to create a safe work area using traffic control devices, and techniques to speed up accident clearance with an emphasis on reducing the number of struck-by and deaths of roadway workers and responders, reducing secondary crashes, reducing on-scene times of responders of roadway incidents and continuing public education with regard to Oklahoma traffic laws pertaining to this issue.
Project Management

This two-day course goes into detail on the various management tools available to efficiently run road and bridge operations. Project management modeling methods and resource estimation methods are addressed. Students work on case studies using these methods in simulation of real world type projects.
Plan Reading

This class will change the way you think about reading and understanding roadway construction plans. You will learn the primary elements of a set of roadway plans and what each element contains. We will touch on the title sheet, schematic plan, utility plan, typical sections, general notes, maintenance of traffic plans, plan/profile sheets, cross sections, and miscellaneous details. Several practical exercises provide students an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of course content. By the end of the training, you will possess the knowledge to communicate key details about any set of roadway plans to those interested.