Targeted Training

This workshop is focused on the introduction of best practices, modern techniques and established strategies to improve the process of business or professional writing, Overall, the result is a more professional and polished product: written documents aligned to your readers’ needs.

Learning outcomes to include:

Confined and restricted spaces are work areas which are not intended for continuous occupancy, and which have by design, limited or restricted entry or exit. Confined Space Entry Hazard Awareness trains personnel to recognize hazards of working in a confined or restricted space and to carry out confined space entry and attendant duties safely.

The City of Iqaluit will conduct a one-day training session on the proper dilution, distribution methods and handling of Calcium Chloride, as part of the Nunavut Municipalities methods for dust suppression.

Location: City Garage, Federal Road.

Time: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

The Maintenance Management Operating System (MMOS) is computerized software to help manage private, commercial and infrastructure. The system ensure that proper preventative maintenance programs are followed, helps track and control inventory and provides reports to control costs.

Professional Drivers’ Upgrading delivered in partnership with the Alberta Motor Association. Training and certification were provided in: safe performance backing procedures, vehicle handling & control, observance of rules & regulations, defensiveness & planning, and general skills.

Class 3/Air Brakes training provides the skills & knowledge for new drivers to test for their licence. It gives licensed drivers enhanced safety & vehicle management skills.

This 2-day course provides Facility Operators the opportunity to develop and enhance their skills and abilities in areas that will benefit themselves, their employer (hamlet), their career and the facility they operate.  This training is intended to meet the need for trained operators and efficient operation of swimming pool facilities.

This course provides an overview of water, wastewater and solid waste:

• management requirements
• legislative regimes
• daily, monthly, semi-annual, and annual operational requirements and standards.

This course provides the specific knowledge and skills that are essential for Municipal Works Foremen to ensure that programs are in place to:

• protect the health of the community
• protect the environment
• ensure that maximum benefit results from public spending

The Lifesaving Society's Bronze Medallion award teaches an understanding of the lifesaving principles embodied in the four components of water rescue education - judgement, knowledge, skill, and fitness. This program will increase community capacity for lifeguards in the eight (8) communities that currently have pool facilities:

This project was built on the commitment of the Government of Nunavut – Department of Environment to establish a hazardous waste (HW) diversion process at Nunavut landfills that contributes to community safety and is in compliance with existing environmental acts and regulations.   With regard to household hazardous waste management, partnerships are key.

1. Landfill Basics: natural attenuation landfills, leachate/surface water monitoring; equipment safety, care & maintenance; operational limitations; litter control; waste screening; cell construction & compaction; gate operations; monitoring
2. Operations: determine if your landfill is really efficient; understand the best landfill management practices; tools that will help maximize your landfill’s capacity; cost control

Municipal Solid Waste Management Phase 2 will take the participant further into the best practices of Landfill Mangement; Hazardous Waste Managment; Waste Segregations and storage methods, Occupational health and safery; Land Fill Fires ( causes, prevention and Emergency responses; and the NWB water License reporting requirements.

Participants will gain hands on experience on the this 3 day seminar, with spending 1 full day in a Land fill operation and working with consultants and community peers on best practices methods.

This seminar will involve three phases of training:

This course utilizes Technology and Geography to explore Spatial and Non-spatial questions such as:

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Geometrics
• Earth Observation (Satellites)
• Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
• Surveying
• Photogrammetry

GIS is about modeling and describing our world into two ways, either Spatial (Locational Data) or Non-Spatial (Attribute Data). City of Iqaluit, many departments of Government of Nunavut and Federal Government are known for using GIS.

MTO offers this professional development opportunity to new and existing SAOs, This five-day delivery includes capital and community planning, program planning, financial management, infrastructure management, council governance, and human resource management.  This year, the primary focus will be water license compliance.

The 5 day Recreation Facility Operators Course will cover 3 basic needs for Facility grassroots workers.  The first is for Arena Maintenance including ice painting, the second component will be Life Cycle Risk Management, understanding the life cycle of your facility and identifying and dealing with risk issues, then it will finish up with a 2 day workshop on Supervisory Skills, where participants will understand managing yourself, managing work, managing people and managing situations.