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�pN,10 OWNED A.Va <br />Op ERATEO <br />AMERICAN BUSINE''B <br />SINCE 1949 <br />Woodruff & Sons, Inc. <br />P.O. Box 10127 <br />Bradenton, FL 34282-0127 <br />Phone: 941-756-1871 <br />Fax: 941-755-1379 <br />Woodruff & Sons, Inc. <br />P.O. Box 450 <br />Michigan City, IN 46361 <br />Phone: 219-872-8605 <br />Fax: 219-879-5339 <br />Equal Opportunity Employer <br />November 9, 2021 <br />City of South Bend Board of Public Works <br />227 W. Jefferson Blvd. <br />South Bend, IN 46601 <br />RE: Pre -Qualification Checklist (For Bidders That Are Not Pre -Qualified) <br />Attachment vi <br />With regards to compliance with IC 5-16-13-12 providing or participating in a job <br />training program, the various Union training programs are in compliance with US <br />Department of Labor as well as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. <br />All of our employees that work in the field are members of one Union or another and <br />receive training thru their corresponding Unions. As part of each collective <br />bargaining agreement, we pay a certain monetary amount per man hour for this <br />training. <br />In addition to that, we have training beyond what the Unions provide. As an example, <br />we have everyone complete CPR and First Aid Training. Then depending on the job <br />class of employee they also receive additional training. We recently had twelve field <br />personnel take an updated trench safety program offered by The Construction <br />Advancement Foundation (CAF) in Portage. The CAF is actually the Union affiliated <br />extension that is responsible for training programs for multiple Unions. Another <br />example ofthe Union training is whereby three of our laborers are actually in training <br />for a week in April near Indianapolis dictated by their Union requirements. Beyond <br />the required Union training, we actually conduct our own Safety Training Day every <br />year where we hire outside instructors to teach various topics from trench safety, <br />confined space, silica training, equipment safety, fire prevention, utility location, etc. <br />Our Safety Training Day is a full eight hour day that all employees attend and like <br />previously stated is over and above what the Union training requires. <br />Feel free to contact me if you have any specific questions regarding this information. <br />Sinnccejrrelly�,'' <br />4 '� <br />Bruce R. Woodruff <br />Vice President <br />