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In California the complexities of administering the expanding highway maintenance function created a need for additional and more comprehensive training of both management and line personnel. A task-force approach was utilized to determine current and future training needs of highway foremen, landscape foremen, and superintendents. Traditional approaches of lectures and short courses were discarded, and live-in academy methods using realistic settings and training material were adopted for maintenance supervisors. Gathering many and varied supervisors in the academies identified additional training needs. Supervisors must be trained to become people managers if they are to become efficient maintenance managers. This need is being met by a basic maintenance supervision course that is now being implemented. To supplement on-the-job training, various correspondence courses have been developed. They are presently being taken by 2,700 road and landscape employees; another 400 employees have completed the courses. California's goal of reducing maintenance costs is being met by increasing employees' knowledge and understanding of maintenance operations.

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Briggs, G M; Kirtland, John M

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1974

Transportation Research Record

53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

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Education; Highway maintenance; Maintenance management; Maintenance personnel; Personnel management; Training

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways

TRIS, TRB

Jan 29 1975 12:00AM

• A METHOD OF MEASURING THE QUALITY OF HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE
• A MINIMUM-COST, ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE PROGRAM OF HERBICIDE MAINTENANCE FOR INDIANA ROADSIDES
• EVALUATION OF THERMOPLASTIC ASPHALT COMPOSITIONS FOR STREET PATCHING
• FLAT PEA FOR HIGHWAY SLOPES IN MASSACHUSETTS
• Further Evaluation of Deicing Chemicals
• NEW ENGINEERING CRITERIA FOR SNOW FENCE SYSTEMS
• SOME COMPARISONS OF SOLAR AND ROCK SALT FOR ICE MELTING
• WATER POLLUTION AND ASSOCIATED EFFECTS FROM STREET SALTING (ABRIDGMENT)