General Physics Corporation - Online Technical and Health/Safety/Environmental Compliance Training for Power Plants

GP has been helping power companies find solutions to workforce qualification issues for over 40 years. We are the industry leader in technical online training for power plants. Our comprehensive online training portal, GPiLEARN™, lowers your operating costs and enables employees to learn anytime and anywhere.

Make sure your employees have the skills needed to operate and maintain the plant safely and efficiently.

The GPiLEARN™ online training solution

Benefits of GPiLEARN™:

• Access over 3,200 lessons and exams designed for the power industry
• Manage "blended" learning using a world-class multilingual Learning Management System (LMS) from Oracle (24 languages available)
• Provide centralised record-keeping for workers and supervisors
• Reduce training costs per employee
• Avoid hidden hosting, training, and maintenance fees
• Access from work, home, or anywhere they have access to the internet using a low bandwidth connection (56K)
• Allow multiple users at any time
• Create structured curriculums for different job disciplines
• Tailor content to your equipment, culture and processes
• Store and track site-specific documentation

GP is currently converting our online training programs into Spanish and adding metric conversions to its lessons and exams. Contact GP to learn more about these conversions

GP'S online training programs

GP's online training programs are designed to help power plants develop a traditional or multi-skilled workforce, improve knowledge, reduce accidents, and improve ROI.

Our online courses include animations, review questions, interactive exercises, and audio to keep the audience engaged throughout the learning process. Lessons are bookmarked so they can be resumed if an employee is called away while studying. There is an exam for each lesson to test the employee's knowledge.

Training for power plant operators and technicians

GP's comprehensive content includes courses for:

• Power plant operators
• Mechanics
• Electricians
• Instrumentation and control technicians
• Cross-trained technicians
• Chemists and lab technicians
• Coal handling personnel (material handling)
• Performance engineers (heat rate)
• New hires (fundamental training)

Power plant training courses

The following types of courseware can be accessed on GPiLEARN™:

• Conventional power plants (coal fired, oil fired, gas fired, CFB and refuse-boilers)
• GE Frame 7F combined cycle plants
• Siemens 501F combined cycle plants
• Combustion turbines [LM2500, LM6000, Frame 6, Frame 7EA, and V84 (2000E)]
• Health and safety compliance
• Environmental compliance
• Flue gas conditioning (scrubbers, SCRs, and SNCRs)
• Nalco™ water treatment
• North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) coming soon

Renewable energy courses

• Waste-to-energy plants
• Hydroelectric plants
• Wind farms

GP's "off-the-shelf" content can be customized instead of developing site-specific courseware "from scratch" and re-inventing the wheel. Content is continually updated to meet AICC and SCORM guidelines.

You can also create your own site-specific training documents, such as visual operating procedures, using GP's extensive library of power plant content. Or, if you refer, GP can create them for you. Having the capability to personalize your content in this way allows you to:

• Provide site specific information on your plant systems and equipment
• Bridge the gap between theoretical topics and hands-on training
• Maximize the returns from your hands-on training
• Provide cost-effective refresher training
• Capture the knowledge of your aging workforce

Web-based training for power plant staff

GP provides various consulting services to complement your current training programs. GP believes in complete, efficient, and effective training programs that encompass a "blended" learning approach of web-based training, "hands-on" training and qualification, and instructor-led courses. Our services include:

• Training program design and consulting
• Curriculum development
• System descriptions (development and updates)
• Operating procedures (development and updates)
• "Hands-on" qualification support (job performance measures)
• Site-specific Visual Operating Procedures (web-based VOPs)
• Alarm response and troubleshooting scenario training
• Instructor-led courses
• Plant commissioning support and start-up training
• Apprenticeship programs
• Maintenance training
• Hiring and screening support
• Training needs assessments
• Job task analyses
• Health and safety and environmental compliance training