{"id":37700,"date":"2020-08-01T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/?p=37700"},"modified":"2020-07-29T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T00:32:35","slug":"safety-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/safety-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">NLI lineworkers practice pole-top rescue<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Elissa Glassman<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37701\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37701 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/c-19-pp4-5-aug20-edit-255x340.jpg\" alt=\"Two lineworkers on a power pole.\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/c-19-pp4-5-aug20-edit-255x340.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/c-19-pp4-5-aug20-edit-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/c-19-pp4-5-aug20-edit.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NLI Lineman Bill Murray practices pole-top rescue as part of NLI\u2019s ongoing lineman safety training.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Becoming a journeyman lineman requires an incredible amount of training.<\/p>\n<p>A Northern Lights Inc. lineman apprentice must successfully complete a three-year apprenticeship that includes on-the-job training, school and testing on Saturdays, and several weeks of additional training at Camp Rilea in Oregon. The Camp Rilea training includes additional classroom instruction, testing, and hands-on training.<\/p>\n<p>An apprentice must maintain a high GPA and, after three years of training, pass a thorough and intensive exam in Spokane before becoming a journeyman lineman.<\/p>\n<p>Every month, NLI provides our linemen with a thorough safety program that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ongoing first aid and CPR training<\/li>\n<li>Pole-top and bucket-truck rescue<\/li>\n<li>Gas line awareness<\/li>\n<li>Electrical worker training<\/li>\n<li>Certified enclosed space and shoring excavation training<\/li>\n<li>Blasting training<\/li>\n<li>Safety awareness and highway flagger certification<\/li>\n<li>Snow and avalanche training<\/li>\n<li>Certified 24-hour first responder training for hazardous materials<\/li>\n<li>Winter preparedness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLI lineworkers practice pole-top rescue By Elissa Glassman Becoming a journeyman lineman requires an incredible amount of training. A Northern Lights Inc. lineman apprentice must successfully complete a three-year apprenticeship that includes on-the-job training, school and testing on Saturdays, and several weeks of additional training at Camp Rilea in Oregon. The Camp Rilea training includes [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":37704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,220],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nli.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}