Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CV - Bulletin 115-Trade and Industrial Education Content Standards Curriculum Framework: Drafting; Electricity; and Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration
Subpart 5 - Electricity
Chapter 15 - Electrical Excellence Rationale
Section CV-1501 - Introduction

A. See Subpart 1 of this Part CV for General Provisions applicable to this Electricity Skills Program.

B. The purpose of this Subpart 5 is to provide Louisiana administrators, supervisors, and instructors with electrical standards and benchmarks that can be used to improve the quality of instruction in Louisiana's Secondary Electrical Trade and Industrial Education Programs. A requirement of this project was to incorporate and reference appropriate, nationally approved standards and benchmarks. The national standards and benchmarks referenced in this work were developed under the auspices of the U. S. Electrical Construction Industry Skill Standards Certification Project. The project was undertaken as a cooperative agreement between the U. S. Department of Labor and a coalition of organizations representing the electrical construction industry. Those organizations that chose to participate in the project included the National Electrical Contractors Association, the Independent Electrical Contractors Association, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee. The goal of the Skill Standards project was to preserve high standards for electrical workers and to encourage formal acceptance of the standards by the entire electrical industry. The Louisiana State Apprenticeship Council, Louisiana Department of Labor, adopted these standards on October 18, 1996.

C. Electrical trade training in Louisiana may be obtained through selected public education programs at the high school level and the Louisiana Technical and Community College System, and through organizations such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Associated Builders and Contractors. The National Joint Apprenticeship Training Council defines electrical construction workers as those who are "electrically wiring single family homes, duplexes, commercial buildings, high-rise complexes, hospitals, schools, large factories, industries, even the huge electrical power generating plants that provide electric energy." Jobs within the electrical trades include both new construction and electrical maintenance and service.