Rockford Systems Opens Training Center
This center supports multi-purpose instruction, seminars and education on machine safeguarding.
Posted: March 11, 2019
Rockford Systems, LLC (Rockford, IL) is celebrating the opening of their multi-purpose Training Center located within their new headquarters in Rockford. Launched in response to growing demand for their popular machine safeguarding seminars, this new space will support education and training for safety professionals, plant managers and machine operators. The Training Center measures 2,200 sq ft, more than doubling the footprint of the previous center, and provides room to accommodate everything from a 60-person classroom style event to one-on-one intensive training. A state-of-the-art multimedia projection system has been added, along with a new sound system, task lighting, and customer-dedicated spaces, all to create the ideal environment to deliver the best training experience.
This expanded Training Center will support the existing machine safeguarding seminar curriculum that includes hands-on demonstrations on 18 fully-safeguarded machines under power, and OSHA-10 and OSHA-30 General Industry. It also enables the company to add a new class not previously offered: NFPA 70E, the industry standard for electrical safety in the workplace. NFPA 70E helps companies and employees avoid workplace injuries and fatalities due to shock, electrocution, arc flash, and arc blast. The first NFPA 70E class is scheduled for August 16, 2019.
“Through our new Training Center we are expanding instruction opportunities and paving a path for a safer, more productive U.S. industrial workforce,” said Carrie Halle, the vice president of marketing and business development at Rockford Systems. “The decision to expand training was a logical step in our business growth strategy.” Serving seminar attendees drawn from across the country, this Training Center is near Rockford and O’Hare International airports, which affords easy travel access and convenient hotel accommodations.
