Prepare your shop and plan for your customers’ needs. From ADA signage to securing your data, the below industry-specific resources will help guide you through sign design.
Click on the name of each resource below to read a description, see the cost, and register. Reach out to education@signs.org with any questions.
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ISA online learning courses in Health & Safety
This course is designed to educate sign, graphic and visual communication companies, installation firms, architects, and designers how the ADA effects signage as it relates to room identification and more. The course will detail all of the Standards concerning the technical characteristics and installation guidelines.
- Price: $35 for ISA members; $100 for non-members
- Estimated time to complete course: 30 minutes
Security issues are a top priority for all businesses. Do you know what you should be focused on and how a breach could impact your company? Learn how cybersecurity directly impacts the sign, graphics and visual communications industry as well as the importance of securing data and information, the types of information and systems that should be secured, best practices and recommendations/guidelines to improve help improve your company’s cybersecurity.
- Speaker: Lance Larson, Larson Corporation, Inc.
- Price: $35 for ISA members; $100 for non-members
- Estimated time to complete course: 1 hour
Gain valuable insight into what it takes to ensure the safety, durability and longevity of properly engineered structures. This session covers (a) code and load requirements including engineering considerations; (b) structure, materials and failure mechanisms including identifying various types of structural materials and the differences, types of failure and other structural concerns; and (c) soils and footings specifically soil bearing capacity; spread footings and use of rebar; caisson footings; frost heave and base plates and anchors.
- Speaker: Michael Sullaway, PE, and Matthew Veverka, PE from Sullaway Engineering, Inc.
- Price: $35 for ISA members; $100 for non-members
- Estimated time to complete course: 1 hour
This course will provide information on the most recent American with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines, as documented in the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design (SAD). It also provides an overview of the impacts on signage of the NFPA Life Safety Manual and lastly an introduction to the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) and how Signage can contribute to these objectives.
- Speaker: Grady Brown, iZone Imaging
- Price: $35 for ISA members; $100 for non-members
- Estimated time to complete course: 1.5 hours
Can your company afford the tens of thousands of dollars that can result from an OSHA visit? Do you know your legal rights and how to handle an inspection? Get the sign industry angle and an OSHA insider perspective because for many businesses, it’s not a matter of if, but when.
- Speaker: Speaker: Ed Foulke, Fisher & Phillips LLP/Former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA
- Price: $35 for ISA members; $100 for non-members
- Estimated time to complete course: 1 hour
