Facilities Maintenance Courseware

The Transit Elevator-Escalator Training Consortium (the Consortium) was the first in an ongoing series of industry-wide collaborative programs to develop integrated systems of training for key frontline occupations in public transportation. Building on national training standards developed by industry Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from 2006 to 2010 and then adopted by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the Consortium developed a full set of standardized national courseware to support training and apprenticeship programs for transit elevator/escalator (El-Es) technicians. The curriculum and courseware development team was composed of subject matter experts (SMEs) from five member agencies and unions from across the country. Membership of the Consortium consists of transit systems that maintain their vertical transportation equipment in-house, rather than relying on outside contractors. El-Es original equipment manufacturers contributed access to their technical drawings and manuals to enrich the courseware.

The courseware was organized in four levels, starting with the simplest and leading to the most complex – following the proven model of Bloom’s Taxonomy where each step in learning builds on the other. Sequentially these steps go from knowledge acquisition to comprehension to application and finally to analysis:

• 100 Level Courses: Basic fundamentals of safety, math and science, hydraulics, pneumatics, hand tools, etc.
• 200 Level Courses: Principles of transit el/es systems, sub-systems and operations; Inspection and maintenance
• 300 Level Courses: Advanced diagnostics and repair
• 400 Level Courses: Most advanced topics and master-technician preparatory courses

Because the Consortium courseware was developed by a joint labor-management-trainer group, the learning objectives and their reflective content align specifically and directly to the required skills for front-line elevator/escalator technicians and consequently directly support industry needs. Each course contains participant guides, instructor guides, Power Points (with Instructor notes), quizzes, and hands-on learning activities. The Consortium also developed components of training that extend beyond courseware: Train the Trainer courses for instructors and on-the-job mentors, model questions and answers for topical quizzes, and finally a national framework for apprenticeship training submitted to and approved by the US Department of Labor.

This page contains the course materials developed by the Transit Elevator-Escalator Training Consortium. Previews to certain courses are free to the public. Full downloads are only available to Consortium members in good standing. Scroll down to browse all the courses or use the navigation links on the right for separate listings of the 100, 200, 300 and 400 level courses. For additional information on joining the Transit Elevator-Escalator Training Consortium, please contact Karitsa Holdzkom.