Butler County Community College is offering 11 new online noncredit training programs in business and industrial safety geared toward the manufacturing industry.

BC3 designed the programs in partnership with Tooling U-SME of Cleveland, Ohio, to enable manufacturers to develop or enhance technical skills, and workers displaced as a result of COVID-19 to explore topics in an industry that employs more than 40,000 people across eight Western Pennsylvania counties. The programs are part of BC3’s workforce development division.

Qualified in-state businesses can be eligible for workforce training grants available as a result of BC3’s partnership in the Workforce and Economic Development Network of Pennsylvania.

The programs include additive manufacturing; cyber safety; hydraulics and pneumatics levels 1, 2 and 3; industrial safety; leadership skills; lean, which introduces the principles of reducing waste and improving efficiency; quality overview; safety overview; and shop floor safety.

Each program costs $400 and contains 10 about one-hour courses presented in a video format.

For more information or to register, visit the bc3.edu/toolingu website.