To be a Communications Technician Apprentice or a Fiber Optics Technician/Splicer an applicant must first be employed by a signatory Communications Worker of America (CWA) employer who is participating in the apprenticeship program and a CWA Union Member. As a Communications Technician he/she will install, maintain and repair structured cabling installations to meet the communications needs required to provide a wide range of residential and commercial services. Working with low voltage wiring systems, the apprentice Communications Technician learns safety practices, Voice, Data (Local, Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks); Video (Cable TV, Closed Circuit, Video-Conferencing), Security Systems (Alarms. Cameras, Access Control,), Cabling using Copper (twisted pair and coax), Fiber Optics, Wireless, OSHA Safety Practices, First Aid/CPR, Grounding, Bonding and Firestopping techniques in a structured cabling system, Computer Literacy and Networking. The Fiber Optics Technician would become skilled in all the above excluding security systems with additional training in outside fiber optics splicing including installation, maintenance, testing and repair of buried and aerial fiber optics cabling.