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The following letter was released by
owners of the BEST training center in
Beaumont, TX., in October as the region
struggles to recover from Hurricane
Rita:
As most of you know, ISTC (Industrial
Safety Training Council) has moved our
training operation from the Nederland
location to the Beaumont Emergency Services
Training Complex (old Beaumont Fire
Training grounds) in Beaumont due to
the extensive damage to our facilities
in Nederland.
The Beaumont location has served us
well, however, we know it is inconvenient
for our customers as well as for the
ISTC organization. We are providing
the training in what we call a "group
CBT" format, which requires an
instructor for each of our 50+ site
orientations. It has been quite a challenge
for the organization as well as for
our customers. I appreciate your patience
& understanding of the revised training
schedule during the past couple of weeks
and ask that you please bear with us
for about another week.
Our plan is to be back in operation
in temporary training trailers located
in the parking lot in the rear of the
ISTC Nederland location by November
14th at the latest. Currently, three
double wide training trailers are being
set up, with an office trailer being
delivered today and set up by Tuesday,
Nov. 2nd. We will be moving all of our
computers and work stations from the
Nederland training building to the temporary
training trailers over the next week
or so, and if all goes as planned, will
be back in operation with all Basic
Plus and CBT courses being provided
under the normal schedule.
Work on the ISTC Nederland buildings
should begin on November 9th, with an
anticipated completion date for the
training building of December 20th.
Once completed, we will move all computers
and workstations back in to the regular
training building, and should be back
in operation by January 2nd, 2006. The
Administration building, which sustained
more damage than the training building
should be back in operation by the end
of January, 2006. The later date for
the admin building will not affect the
delivery of our courses in the training
buildings.
The BEST Complex Emergency Training
school is back in service for all types
of Emergency Response Training. The
ISTC Baytown location received no damage
and is operating under normal circumstances.
Again, we appreciate your patience
and understanding during these inconvenient
times, and look forward to getting back
in our normal routine as soon as possible.
If you have any question, comments or
suggestions, please drop me an email
or phone call at 409-724-2565 ext. 105.
Please forward this message as appropriate
within your organizations.
Sincerely,
Russell Melancon Jr., CAE
President & CEO
Industrial Safety Training Council
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