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Amarillo College partners with industry leaders like Pantex to design educational programs to fit their specific needs. An alliance of this kind between Amarillo College and Pantex has attracted significant federal funding to provide hazardous-materials training for Department of Energy workers – and now, this program is expanding its scope so that area industries can receive some of that training, too!

Employees from throughout the region may now enroll in asbestos training, hazardous-material handling, and transportation courses previously offered exclusively to Pantex workers.
“This not only allows Pantex to get their employees up to date and in compliance,” Gray said, “but it also helps our local industries gain from the training as others, not just Pantex employees, are able to benefit from this highly specialized and important safety and environmental training” said Toni Gray, dean of AC’s Downtown Campus, where the training is delivered under AC’s Continuing Education umbrella.

AC and Pantex successfully collaborated in 2015 to secure a five-year, $750,000 DOE grant that supports hazardous related safety-training classes for DOE workers employed at Pantex.

The DOE grant, which is administered by the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE), provides $150,000 annually.

As a result, AC and Pantex now have greater flexibility in serving private industry, whose workers also need hazardous-material certifications yet often must travel to faraway places to get it.

By sending their workers to the same asbestos and hazmat classes that Pantex workers attend at Amarillo College, local employers can realize sizable savings – paying only for tuition, not for unnecessary travel and other expenses.

“We’ve established a wonderful working relationship with Amarillo College which has been so successful that now we can reach out to the community,” said Pantex training specialist Terrel Chambers. “Now we’re going to have open enrollment."

“In the past, companies would have to send their workers to Houston, St. Louis, New Orleans and other places to get the type of training they’ve needed,” he said. “By opening up these additional training opportunities at Amarillo College, I think industries within our community can be just as successful in their training endeavors as we have been at Pantex.”

For information about upcoming hazardous-materials training at Amarillo College, please contact Jeff Wallick at 806-371-2923 or visit https://www.actx.edu/blog/id/184 for more information.