This past summer, several schools had to have roof trusses repaired, and in one good and long-established school in St. John's, the top floor is not safe to enter.

training for:- dispensing optician ('opticien'),- dental technician ('mécanicien dentaire'),- hearing-aid maker ('audioprothésiste'),- orthopaedic technician/surgical truss maker ('mécanicien orthopédiste/bandagiste'),- orthopaedic bootmaker ('orthopédiste-cordonnier'),These courses are of a total duration of 14 years, including at least five years' training followed within a structured training framework, partly received in the workplace and partly provided by the vocational training establishment, and culminating in an examination which must be passed in order to be able to practise any activity considered as skilled, either independen ...[+++]tly or as an employee with a comparable level of responsibility.

training for:- optician ('Augenoptiker'),- dental technician ('Zahntechniker'),- surgical truss maker ('Bandagist'),- hearing-aid maker ('Hoergeraete-Akustiker'),- orthopaedic technician ('Orthopaediemechaniker'),- orthopaedic bootmaker ('Orthopaedieschuhmacher').

90.19 | Orthopaedic appliances, surgical belts, trusses and the like; splints and other fracture appliances, artificial limbs, eyes, teeth and other artificial parts of the body, hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability: ex B. II. Other:Electronic orientator and obstacle detector appliances for the blind and partially sighted |

We had 300 truss manufacturers in this country and about 15,000 people employed by the roof truss industries, which are small companies.

It is becoming obvious that Canadian Wood Truss Association members — truss manufacturers and others — have not seen any appreciable gain in market share for the kinds of high-volume, meat-and-potatoes commercial buildings that could use their product.