Indiana State University
Boilermakers Local 374
Boilermakers Local 374
1-812-299-1177
Apprentice Program Contact:
Todd Conn
Phone 812-528-6820
www.insulators18.org
Heat & Frost Insulators Local 18
1220 East Epler Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46227 www.weinsulate.org
Phone 317-786-3216
Fax 317-786-3353 insulators.local18@yahoo.com
OFFICERS:
Jason Smith, Business Manager
Kim Patrick, President
Paul Kramer, Vice President
Jerry Stewart, Financial Secretary
Samuel Kramer, Organizer
OFFICERS:
Jason Smith, Business Manager
Kim Patrick, President
Paul Kramer, Vice President
Jerry Stewart, Financial Secretary
Samuel Kramer, Organizer
Heat and Frost Insulators are on mechanical, insulation, and fire stopping jobs for industrial, commercial, residential, and government users. The work involves energy efficient, state-of-the art fire safety and pollutant-free environments which are vital to where we live and work.
Members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 18 have been on the job at the Elanco Clinton Labs, Indiana State University School of Nursing Science, and various projects at Indiana University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Clay Community Schools. Members are also on the
job at the Martinsville Power Plant, the Harding Street Indianapolis
Powerhouse and the Sugar Creek Generating Station.
The 275 members of the Heat and Frost Insulators 18 serve 32
counties in central Indiana, and five counties in central Illinois from
Danville to Champaign.
Membership benefits include
competitive benefits and wages,
equal opportunity, overtime pay,
union representation and security.
The national association is the
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers. The insulators use a salamander in their logo because of its unique ability to live in fire.
Heat & Frost Insulators Apprentice Program
Apprentices complete a four-year training program covering math,
metal layout, blueprint reading, mathematics, safe handling of
potentially hazardous materials, application techniques, pattern layout, workplace safety, supervision, OSHA safety, first aid, and CPR.
They spend 144 hours in the classroom, and meet for eight hours every Saturday from January through May. Apprentices also receive 1,800 hours of on-the-job training.
Applications are taken each year in March. Special training and upgrade classes are offered including asbestos awareness, abatement, and safety procedures, environmental management practices and monitoring, confined tank entry, fall protection, fire stopping, and changes in the construction industry.