School facilities training can help you train your team on how to safely perform preventive maintenance tasks and corrective repair at your district’s facilities. Empower your employees to work more safely and help you avoid OSHA-related fines with 3D animated school facility maintenance training.
Provide your maintenance, facilities, grounds, and custodial staff with training on carpentry basics, including drywall, painting, and other repairs. Ensure safe hand and power tool use, proper PPE, and safe work practices.
Learn basic carpentry techniques
Employ the safe use of hand and power tools
Identify proper PPE
Provide recommended safe work practices to avoid injury and illness
Equip your staff with a basic understanding of different types of piping and piping system inspections. Provide training on the tools, techniques, and procedures to perform basic plumbing repairs.
Understand the operation and maintenance of basic plumbing components
Learn to perform basic repairs to common plumbing fixtures: toilets, urinals, and sinks
Demonstrate repairs to various traps and valves
Provide your facilities and maintenance staff with an understanding of different types of heating and cooling systems and basic routine inspection and preventive maintenance best practices.
Describe various types of heating and cooling equipment
Understand routine inspection and maintenance requirements to keep systems functioning
Identify problems related to lack of routine maintenance
Provide your staff with a wide range of training on important HVAC – Air Side topics, including air distribution, air handling, how to troubleshoot hot and cold calls, Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems and more.
Understand the components of air distribution and handling
Identify air balancing techniques
Learn basic troubleshooting steps
Determine how to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair units
Give facilities and maintenance staff a basic understanding of different types of refrigeration systems and components and the equipment and processes related to the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle.
Understand the basic refrigeration cycle
Understand heat exchangers used in HVAC systems
Familiarize staff with the components of refrigeration system, metering devices, and compressors
Help your team understand different causes of motor failures, and how to operate and maintain motors to prevent these failures. Courses cover best practices for performing maintenance for the long-term reliability of AC and DC motors used in facilities.
Understand the two general types of electric motors
Identify proper use of tools and equipment
Demonstrate motor maintenance principles
Short 20-minute courses based on OSHA standards help you properly train your maintenance, facilities, grounds, and custodial staff.
Ensure staff practice proper preventive maintenance to keep your equipment up and running and avoid costly repairs.
Spend less time on training management with intuitive features; reporting, reminders, customization, policy acceptance, and more.
These OSHA-based courses can help you comply with federal and state mandates and avoid OSHA-related fines.
"We have been successfully using Vector Training for over 10 years. Vector Training provides a format that is easy to use and provides the appropriate level of training for school-based staff."
Robert Stratton
Supervisor of Risk Management
November 7, 2024
February 23, 2022 3 min read
School facilities training generally refers to the instruction and professional development provided to staff (such as facilities managers, maintenance crews, custodial staff, and other support personnel) in K-12 schools to ensure that the physical buildings and grounds are operated, maintained, and managed in a safe, efficient, and effective way.
Maintenance technicians, custodial staff, groundskeepers, and other facilities personnel who perform preventive maintenance, repairs, and grounds upkeep should receive training.
Yes, these courses are based on OSHA standards and can help you comply with federal and state mandates and avoid OSHA-related fines.
Facilities maintenance training requirements can vary by district and be dependent on federal and state compliance requirements. Please download your corresponding state compliance guide to better understand if facilities maintenance training is required by your state. Even if training is not mandated by your state, it is important for facilities staff members to understand how to safely perform preventive maintenance tasks and corrective repair at your district’s facilities
