Fiber Optic Splicing
What does the Fiber Optic Splicing Training Program include?
Omnia Training's Fiber Optic Splicing Class provides students with a structured, hands-on learning experience, covering essential safety training, construction fundamentals, and advanced fiber optic splicing techniques. This comprehensive curriculum ensures students gain the technical skills, industry knowledge, and hands-on experience required to succeed in fiber optic splicing.
Training Program Outline:
- Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) training
- Introduction to construction knowledge and industry best practices
- Fall Arrest training
- Confined Space training
- First Aid certification
- Construction Safety Training System (CSTS)
- Understanding fiber optic color codes
- Overview of different fiber types (multi-mode & single-mode)
- Introduction to inside plant applications
- Mechanical connectors and splicing machine fundamentals
- Reading civil and cable plans
- Understanding dark fiber and sparring
- Identifying components inside splices vs. bypassing sections
- Stripping different coatings and opening up fibers for zebra/end splicing
- Continuing end-span splicing and introducing mid-span splicing
- Testing procedures, including Visual Fault Locator (VFL) testing
- Quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and reporting
- Building a small-scale fiber network
- Team-based projects simulating real-world splice requests in handholes
- Troubleshooting and verifying spliced segments
- Properly dressing vaults for fiber optic infrastructure
- Handling and working with AFL cables
- Working on Fiber Distribution Hubs (FDH)
- Completing a full fiber splicing project
- One day of practical, on-site fieldwork experience