Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) - Minimum Industry Training Criteria (MITC)
In January of 2010 the California Apprenticeship Council (CAC) voted to require all crafts to add green components to their Minimum Industry Training Criteria (MITC). In October of 2010 the CAC accepted MITC with green components for 23 trades, many with multiple occupations, and approved the following MITC's at the first quarter CAC meeting on January 27, 2011.
The definition of green construction: work practices for on-the-job processes that include recycling and reuse of products, use of technologies, materials and methods that reduce harm to the environment, work that furthers energy efficiency and high performance building and preserves natural resources. These are practices that are experienced in all trades with each having its own technologies that the apprentice will learn for their chosen craft. While the apprentice progresses through their related and supplemental instruction they will be made aware of environmental issues, why it is important to practice green construction, and an overview of those practices.
Air conditioning and refrigeration industry
Carpenter industry
Cement mason industry
Electrical industry
Elevator industry
Field ironworker industry
Floor covering industry
Glazier, architectural, metal and glass workers industry
Heat & frost insulators and asbestos workers industry
Industrial painter industry
Laborer industry
Masonry industry
- Bricklayer
- Marble Finisher
- Marble mason/setter
- Mason finisher
- Pointer cleaner caulker
- Stone mason
- Terrazzo finisher
- Terrazzo worker
Operating engineer industry
Pipe trades industry
Plastering industry
Plumbing industry
Roofer & waterproofing industry
Sheet metal industry
Sound and communication industry
Steamfitter, pipefitter industry
Surveyor industry
Tile industry
Minimum industry training criteria are the base for standards set by a program in a particular trade. This new move to include green components in all the crafts has resulted in full participation from all building construction trades. All apprenticeship programs, regardless of the industry, have standards developed with the help of the division that the apprentice must meet before graduating and receiving their journeyman’s card or completed apprenticeship certificate from the state of California.
Multiple programs for a particular trade work together on a committee to establish what training and experience are necessary at minimum in any program in order to raise their apprentice to journeyman. This committee consists of an equal number of employer and employee representatives, each in an equal number from both signatory and non-signatory programs. The division aids the committee in the process and guides them so they stay in compliance with the California Code of Regulations 212.01.
When a business applies to the division to become a program sponsor it must meet the industry minimum training criteria in their work processes and related and supplemental instruction curriculum for their industry.
The following industries have minimum industry training criteria already established. As technology develops, new industries enter and create training criteria relevant to that industry.
August 2014