Confined Space & Trench Safety

Mission

To recruit, train and retain a highly skilled workforce for the construction industry by promoting life-long learning and excellence through career and technical education.

Vision

To become the preeminent regional source to develop a skilled, safe and competent workforce to meet the needs of the construction industry today and into the future.

Values

• We set expectations that encourage superior performance and we consistently exceed those expectations with friendly, prompt and professional service.
• We treat others with fairness, consideration and dignity. We respect diversity, social equity and differing perspectives.
• We adhere to ethical principles of honesty, transparency and doing what is right.
• We work together as a cohesive team in the pursuit of serving our students and Training Agents.
• We realize the benefits of joining forces within the industry and in the business community to accomplish shared goals.

NWCOC uses curriculum developed by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).

The NCCER is a not-for-profit education foundation created to develop industry-driven standardized craft training programs with portable credentials and help address the critical workforce shortage facing the construction industry.The NCCER Mission is to build a safe, productive, and sustainable workforce of craft professionals.

The quality and standardization of NCCER’s Contren® Learning Series and Skills Assessments is accomplished through a formal accreditation process.

Through this process, participants receive quality training based on uniform standards and criteria. These standards are presented as policies in the NCCER “Accreditation Guidelines”.

Registry

In an effort to provide students and craft professionals with industry recognized credentials and assure national portability of skills, NCCER maintains a National Registry.

The National Registry provides transcripts, certificates of completion, and wallet cards when training is delivered through an NCCER Accredited Sponsor. These valuable industry credentials benefit students as they seek employment and build their careers.

NCCER organizes its course curriculum into a series of modules. The National Registry is a record of every module successfully completed by every student enrolled in an NCCER.

Accredited institution such as NWCOC. All students who receive training delivered by an NCCER Accredited Sponsor are eligible to receive transcripts and documentation of their training accomplishments through the National Registry.

Programs And Structure

NWCOC offers construction craft, supervisory, safety and management courses developed by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) as well as the very best curriculum available through our sponsoring partners and other quality sources.

Each course heading described on this website will have an indicator as to the source of the curriculum.