From first-response extinguisher use through interior structural firefighting and brigade leadership, HRS offers hands-on, scenario-based training shaped around your facility, equipment, hazards, and pre-incident plans.
Hazmat Response Solutions LLC trains industrial and facility fire brigades across a progression of response roles, from incipient-stage fire response to advanced exterior and interior structural firefighting and brigade leadership. Training is designed around OSHA 1910.156 training requirements and NFPA 1081 job performance requirements, with the course scope and delivery planned for the duties assigned to each brigade.
Instruction is led by a retired EMS Assistant Chief and Level 4 Hazmat Specialist with fire brigade train-the-trainer credentials. Sessions are hands-on and scenario-based and can be delivered at your facility using your equipment, hazards, and pre-incident plans. Course scope, prerequisites, practical evolutions, and facility-specific arrangements are confirmed during planning.
For employees designated to use portable extinguishers. Covers fire behavior, classes of fire, extinguisher selection and inspection, the PASS technique, and recognizing when evacuation is safer than attempting fire suppression. Includes live-fire extinguisher practice. Addresses OSHA 1910.157(g).
For members who respond to fires in their earliest stage without thermal protective clothing or SCBA. Topics include emergency notification, small hose lines, extinguishers, fixed suppression systems, and coordination with the facility emergency action plan.
For members assigned to exterior fire response at tank farms, loading racks, process units, and outdoor storage areas. Covers handlines, master streams, foam operations, water supply, PPE, and defensive tactics.
For brigades assigned to enter buildings and fight fires beyond the incipient stage. Covers fire behavior, PPE and SCBA, OSHA 1910.134 respiratory protection considerations, search and rescue, forcible entry, ventilation, hose and ladder operations, fire attack, utility control, and live-fire evolutions.
Covers incident command (NIMS/ICS), size-up, tactical decisions, accountability, crew safety, coordination with mutual aid and the municipal fire department, and post-incident review.
Prepares designated instructors to deliver and document brigade training. Covers adult learning, lesson planning, skills evaluation, recordkeeping, and establishing an annual training program.
Refresher sessions to keep brigade skills current, reinforce site-specific procedures, and support organized training records. OSHA training frequency depends on brigade duties and applicable requirements; interior structural members require more frequent training than annual-only schedules.
Use the guidance below to match each program to employees’ assigned fire-response duties, facility hazards, and level of responsibility.
Facilities with process, production, and workplace fire hazards.
Sites with process units, storage tanks, loading racks, and chemical hazards.
Operations with large footprints, storage systems, and facility response plans.
Organizations that need role-appropriate brigade training and site-aware preparation.
Regulatory note: course delivery and documentation should be matched to the employer's hazards, assigned duties, applicable OSHA requirements, and the relevant NFPA standard edition. The employer remains responsible for determining and maintaining its compliance obligations.
