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Gmooc ^※General Online Learning Course Services for Gas Business Operators

In the purpose of supporting education, we provide a distribution service that aggregates e-learning courses and video courses related to the gas business. This service can be used to help resolve the common issues faced by gas utilities, such as "human resource development" and "skill transfer”. In addition, the service is equipped with a function to store videos and materials owned by the business, making it possible to centralize the education system. As of April 2024, approximately 60 companies have adopted the service, and we have received inquiries from overseas companies as well.

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Emergency School

As a specialized education and training facility, the Emergency School was established to provide simulated training for trainees to experience emergency service sites.
Through simulated experiences at gas leak sites, trainees will learn how to act with the highest priority on customer safety.

Features: Equipment based on our past responses and experiences, which can reproduce and allow trainees to safely learn how to respond to various gas leak sites

Facilities, including a residential building that imitates a condominium and a business building that imitates a multi-tenant building, to enable training in various simulated situations

Facilities that have cameras in various locations to monitor and record training sessions and deepen trainees’ understanding by watching training scenes

Hands-on Training

We have hands-on training facilities for trainees to learn how to prevent ignition accidents and serious occupational accidents.
These facilities enable trainees to know not only intellectually but also physically how an accident would be dreadful and to have a raised awareness about safety.

Features: Facilities capable of reproducing example accidents that can lead to a serious disaster and allowing trainees to safely experience the impact they would encounter when an accident occurs

Equipment that can visualize and convey important information about accidents in an easy-to-understand manner, such as displaying on various instruments and representing leaked gas with smoke

Other Educational Services

For the operation of a city gas business, employee education is critical. Osaka Gas Network has a qualification program and educational facilities with hands-on training equipment and provides systematic education programs. This expertise and these education programs are available for city gas business operators. In addition, seminar equipment packed with expertise are also available for renting upon consultation.

Features: Experienced engineers who have been involved in our on-site operations serve as trainers of the respective courses.

The courses are designed to be understandable from the viewpoint of trainees by harnessing our in-house know-how.

Improvements are made continuously based on questionnaire surveys of trainees (14,000 man-days/year).

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Major educational facilities

Hands-on training facilities	Area	Capacity	Features of equipment
Training building	1200m² 60m×20m	15 people × 2 rooms 12 people × 6 rooms	Instructor’s PC Ceiling-mounted projector Wireless LAN
Dirt area	684m² 38m×18m	50 people	Roofed area available for holding a seminar regardless of rainy weather This area can be excavated. Heavy equipment can be used.
Fire extinguishing training equipment	540m² 27m×20m	20 people	Ignited leaking gas is extinguished.
Hands-on training area for pipeline construction	2040m² 68m×30m	30 people	Roofed area available for holding a seminar regardless of rainy weather Heavy equipment can be used.
Trunk line training facility	130m² 10m×13m	15 people	Governor operation training available
Locator training room	2040m² 68m×30m	15 people	Burying of a locating wire Hands-on training available on underground leak investigation
Polyethylene (PE) pipe training room	1F：213m² 17m×10m 2F：102m² 8.5m×12m	28 people	Fusion joining training available indoors for PE pipes
Governor and valve training room	255m² 15m×17m	15 people	Governor operation training available