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GREETINGS to all Florida Contractors! Beginning immediately, we are issuing an EARLY BIRD price buster for our 14 hour online courses! If you are a Florida licensed contractor and need 14 hours to renew your license, OUR COURSE is for…

UPDATE FOR POOL CONTRACTORS! Last year, the CILB "changed" your continuing education requirements (F.A.C. 61G4-18.001). CLICK HERE to see their new rule. Click on the Notice Adopted on July 19, 2017. They told us that this new requirement would go into…

CHOOSE CAFEFULLY! BEWARE!!!  Many continuing education providers are selling cheap courses online! You see the prices?  $79.  Even $59! Be careful of what you will be getting!!  They are sub-standard! Even HIGHER priced courses don't match our program.  There are…

We invite all Pinellas County licensed contractors and local Tampa licensed contractors to review our class information for our Clearwater continuing education class. If you need continuing education for license renewal, THIS is the course you have GOT to attend! We…

I learned an interesting bit of information about cabinets. In a recent blog entry we talked about VOC's.  I am continually amazed at how pervasive this condition is. The EPA says:  "Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to…

HELLO TO ALL FLORIDA POOL CONTRACTORS! The DBPR has CHANGED the rules! SAVE YOUR MONEY!  Register for our LIVE CLASS at no increase in price! Or register for our ONLINE POOL course for $99. If you take the same continuing education course towards…

Collecting on your contracts is probably the most important financial goal you have.  How's it going?  In today's economy money is tight.  We read in the headings nowadays that credit card companies are cancelling accounts and tightening constraints.  Owners are likely…

Welcome to our class schedule for 2018. We have been advised by some Florida licensed contractor customers that easier discovery of our continuing education class schedule would be available to them if we wrote blog entries about each class.  So…

Are you good at sealing up houses, tight as a drum? We've talked about green building recently. Seeing as how in summer in Florida the heat is always trying to invade air conditioned spaces, maybe we should take a look at…

We are pleased to announce our construction continuing education course for Palm Beach contractors! The FIRST date is Saturday, February 24, 2018.  This will start at 8am and run ALL DAY - in ONE DAY. CLICK HERE to see other dates.…

Attention Contractors in the Kendall and Miami area!  We are having CILB approved 14-hour and 16-hour courses in the Kendall area on February 12, 2018. This class will be held at the Comfort Suites on SW 117 Avenue, just north of Bird…

I heard a terrible story in a training class years ago. It was a typical hot Florida day and the men were drinking like they should be.  That's the good news.  The bad news was that one guy was working to…

Many contractors taking continuing education in Florida are not clear about the options of license status in this state. When you pay all your license fees and maintain all the things you must maintain, your license is "active" and you…

Hello Florida Contractors! We were reviewing our contractor blog entries and came across our inaugural BLOG entry from when our website was first created!  It bears repeating. We hope you appreciate the nostalgia! Contractors Education & Training Corporation is pleased to…

Today is the day we will be listing our classes for the Summer 2018 renewal period. ALL CLASSES WILL BE POSTED under our Upcoming Class list, by midnight today, Friday, December 29, 2017! Look for our continuing education mailers soon! …

GREETINGS fellow contractors! OSHA has finally announced that their website is "working" and "ready" to accept OSHA logs. Beginning this year, every employer with more than 20 employees is required to SUBMIT their completed OSHA Summary Form 300A, to OSHA.…

HELLO Florida Contractors. Your 2016 certified license is expiring at the end of the summer! We are working hard to provide you with a menu of continuing education course options that will be convenient for you. Do you want an…

The Secretary of OSHA is intent on reducing fatalities at work!  This includes deaths that occur because a worker is texting while driving. Do you have a NO-TEXTING policy?  Is it in writing?  Does your Continuing Education provider assist you…

WIND MITIGATION is one small example of a topic in our continuing education courses, which is REQUIRED by the state, yet, doesn't appy to all contractors in our course! Roofers must know about this information -but not pool contractors. Builders…

So the Florida DBPR has lots of publications to help contractors show homeowners why it is better to hire "licensed" contractors, rather than not! Click HERE for a sample of a form you can print and present to any homeowner! It is…

Have you ever attended a "live" continuing education course which presented the same material as LAST cycle? The State of Florida, Department of Business and Professional Regulation approves construction continuing education courses through their Construction Industry Licensing Board.  Those courses…

What does a safety incentive program accomplish?  You may say it reduces accidents by making people more careful so that they don't lose their incentive for being accident-free! WRONG! What it really does, is cause them to refrain from reporting…

CHRISTMAS IS COMING! Do you have all your shopping done?

During the last two construction license renewal cycles in Florida, we covered some new information about Human Resources.  We have not noticed ANY other continuing education class providers bringing this valuable, and necessary information to any of the people in…

Fainting is recordable under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s injury reporting rules, even if the loss-of-consciousness is due to a non-recordable injury incurred at work, the agency said in an interpretation letter to a West Virginia retailer. The retailer’s inquiry described…

The recent Review Commission case of Sec’y of Labor v. Lake Erie Constr. Co., OSHRC, No. 11-0146 still leaves Lake Erie Construction Company waiting for a final decision on the merits. However, the Review Commission case is already a landmark decision because…

This year, we have shown several contractors in our continuing education courses, that the rules for qualifying business vary depending on who licensed you. State CILB licensees are able to qualify two, or maybe even three businesses. If you have…

Our Assistant Secretary of OSHA, in Washington, D.C., has made the following announcement: WASHINGTON — Results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses released today show that private industry employers reported nearly 3 million non-fatal workplace injuries and…

ContractorETC is PROUD to remind you how they are licensed to provide continuing education to Home Inspectors, as well as CILB licensed contractors. There is a large amount of overlap. If you are dually licensed, we can HELP! Here's the…

Interested in a Home Show in the Sarasota/Bradenton area? Click HERE to learn more. If you are interested in EXHIBITING, click HERE. For photos of past exhibitors, click HERE. Whatever you do, continuing education is necessary to keep your license current and active. We…

At a House subcommittee hearing on October 7, the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Dr. David Michaels, faced a grilling from Republican lawmakers over recently issued guidance memoranda for agency inspectors and examples of allegedly over-the-top enforcement actions. In…

So OSHA has issued a fine just a month ago to a roofing company in North Port, Florida. $41,580.00 How does that sit with your budget? Still making money with fines like that? Isn't it cheaper to just provide fall…

November 15, 2015 is the closing date for grandfathering your county registered license.  If your license is of the category of scope that qualifies for this excellent benefit, you have less than 2 weeks to get your application in to…

OSHA 7105- Evacuation and Emergency Planning : Monday, November 9,2015-  8:00 am -12:00 pm. 

Do you want to complete your Florida construction continuing education ONLINE? You've come to the RIGHT place! OUR COURSE is Florida's ONLY awesome online continuing education program! Here is why! We have a studio filmed, professionally edited program! Other providers…

Here's a special reminder to all Miami Dade County registered contractors.  Contractors Education & Training Corporation is approved as a Miami-Dade county continuing education provider. We have a 16-hour course that has met all the requirements and will make us your…

We are PROUD to announce that our 2-hour Hurricane Mitigation course has been approved by the DBPR and we can NOW add this course to our online menu! Continuing education has never been so interesting!  We have created yet ANOTHER…

In a past blog entry we re-introduced our instructor by way of his long-standing experience in the construction industry.  30+ years is a very long time working in construction, running his own corporation for 28+ years of that time - successfully…

Attention Florida licensed contractors!  Of all the sections we cover in our Florida construction continuing education course, Rules & Laws is one of the more important one.  We take a brief look at several statutes that govern how we, as contractors, must…

Welcome to our southwest Florida licensed contractors.  We are calling all Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, Marco Island and Sanibel...and surrounding area contractors to our continuing education class in southwest Florida.  If you've been struggling with boring continuing education programs…

Greetings contractors! Another month of information-filled days of continuing education through Contractors Education & Training Corporation has come to a close. Our contractors have completed their CEU requirements and all expressed interest in the class and in the material that…

Welcome back to the blog for contractors.  As we prepare our programs for this run of continuing education classes, we like to focus on safety hazards that keep on plaguing our work force.  Falls claim too many lives in construction…

Many Miami Dade contractors have expressed interest in our continuing education classes in Dade County, especially south Dade.  We are feeling that perhaps our first class of the 2014 renewal period may sell out in which case we will need…

This week I spoke with a licensed contractor who was as angry as they come.  I was trying to help him find a class that was in his area, conveniently timed and offered at a value he couldn't beat -…

A recent ruling by the Construction Industry Licensing Board shows that it IS within the scope of a certified and registered roofer's license, to install tubular skylights. CLICK HERE for more information about the declaratory statement furnished by the Board. This…

Just as a reminder to many of you who have been inquiring in the past - Contractors Education & Training Corporation offers PRIVATE continuing education classes for your group.  Often contractors do not have a schedule that permits travel and wish for their…

Contractors Education & Training Corporation is pleased to inform you that we are working to develop a relationship with another construction service company that provides Notice to Owner and Claim of Lien services. One of the most important parts of our continuing…

Contractors Education and Training Corporation is underway with another sequence of construction continuing education seminars for Florida licensed contractors.    We invite all contractors - EVERY ONE except septic, electrical and alarm - to review our schedule and consider the excellent opportunities…

A new law has passed late last year.  It is Chapter 455.227(1)(t) titled: Grounds for discipline, penalties, enforcement. During the Legislative Session of 2009, the Florida Legislature in Tallahassee passed new House Bill 425, which became law on October 1,…

•Case Seven: In response to a public lead, a site visit was conducted and nine employees were observed framing a new residential structure. The investigation revealed the employer had elected to be exempt from obtaining workers’ compensation coverage for himself, but…