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10-day off-campus
Hazardous Materials Officer and Hazardous Materials Safety Officer (N0258)

Curriculum: Hazardous Materials

Utilizing a risk-based approach, learn to safely direct and coordinate hazardous materials/WMD incident response as either a hazardous materials officer or a hazardous materials safety officer.


None scheduled

6-day on-campus
Management and Planning of Specialized Operations for EMS (R0168)

Curriculum: Emergency Medical Services

Learn to manage EMS components of planned events and complex incidents, including identifying potential hazards and resource needs, supporting specialized operations, and developing incident action plans.


None scheduled

2-day off-campus
Emergency Response to Terrorism: Strategic Considerations (O0549)

Curriculum: Emergency Response to Terrorism

Learn how to respond to incidents involving terrorism, including operating as part of a Unified Command structure to ensure the safety of responders and reach a successful conclusion to the incident.


None scheduled

2-day off-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership Through Difficult Conversations (O0522)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Gain the skills for participating in difficult conversations by learning to effectively engage in those conversations as they relate to exercising leadership when addressing adaptive challenges.


None scheduled

2-day off-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership to Facilitate Adaptive Change (O0521)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Develop an understanding of skills associated with exercising leadership to resolve adaptive problems (those problems where the solution is either unknown or requires significant change, or both).


None scheduled

Online - Instructor Led
Hot Topics Research in Fire and Life Safety (M0566)

Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Technical

Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and research hot topics in fire and life safety to ultimately identify, promote and embrace change within the fire and life safety community.


None scheduled

Online - Instructor Led
Training Program Design (M0576)

Curriculum: Training Programs

Learn to apply an accepted instructional design process to design and develop effective training programs for local fire departments or organizations, including creating a course design document.


None scheduled

6-day on-campus
Applications of Leadership in the Culture of Safety (R0388)

Curriculum: Responder Health and Safety

Understand the role of first-line supervisor in charge of safety including how to critique the current culture of safety, evaluate the impacts of human dynamics and apply a risk management plan.


None scheduled

5-day off-campus
Type 3 All-Hazards Incident Management Team (O0305)

Curriculum: All Hazards Incident Management Team

Learn to build and maintain a U.S. Fire Administration Type 3 All-Hazards Incident Management Team to the standards of the National Incident Management System and the National Response Framework.


None scheduled

Online - Self-Study
Hazardous Materials for Inspectors (U0382)

Curriculum: Hazardous Materials

Learn to recognize, identify and quantify hazardous materials present in occupancies during fire inspections and to perform initial steps of code application and notification to initiate mitigation.

6-day off-campus
Fire Inspection Principles I (O0390)

Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Technical

Get introduced to the fundamental methodology for the application of fire and life safety codes and standards, with a focus on essential methodologies and current code enforcement applications.


None scheduled

6-day off-campus
Strategic and Tactical Considerations for Fire Protection Systems (O0396)

Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Technical

Learn the procedures Incident Commanders use to conduct pre-incident planning for target hazards to determine the fire protection systems that may be needed during a fire or related emergency.


None scheduled