Pacific Coast Safety and Training

Check out our upcoming courses or contact us and we can develop a course tailored to your specific needs.
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Illness & Injury Prevention Program
This written safety program is a must have. The first thing an OSHA inspector will want to see. We can prepare a written IIPP for your business regardless of the type of work you do. This is not a standard document with your name photocopied onto the cover. We will conduct a site safety evaluation and build a plan specifically addressing your facility or facilities.

Work Place Safety Training
Due you train your employees, and more importantly can you prove it? Every employee must be given training regarding safety concerns at their work station. In most cases this even includes ergonomic evaluations for office employees as well as driver training for employees operating company vehicles.

Supervisor Training
Recent OSHA laws have created the following saying, " Be a manager, go to jail." It can be tricky business running field operations, if your employee gets injured you can be held personally liable. You can pay exorbitant fines and even go to jail. This course will give you what you need to know about being safe and productive.

Commanding the Initial Response
This NFA hand-off course is designed to give the participant the information and skills necessary to establish command, perform size-up, develop and implement an action plan, transfer command and organize an incident using an effective fireground management system.

Fire Command 1A
This course provides instruction and simulation time pertaining to the initial decision and action processes at a working fire. The course includes areas of discussion on the fire officer, fire behavior, fire ground resources, operations, and management.

Fire Command 1B
This course provides instruction in tactics and strategies and scene management principles for incidents involving hazardous materials. The course includes areas of discussion on identification and hazard mitigation, decontamination, protective clothing, environmental concerns, and legal issues.

Fire Command 2A Command Tactics at Major Fires
This course prepares the officer to use management techniques and the Incident Command System when commanding multiple alarms or large suppression forces.

Fire Command 2B (Management of Major Haz-Mat Incidents)
This course includes areas of discussion on information and data bases, organizations, agencies and institutions involved in hazardous materials response and research, planning for your community’s hazardous materials problems, legislation, litigation and liabilities of hazardous materials responses.

Fire Command 2C High Rise Fire Tactics
This course is approached from a system basis and is applied to both small and large high-rise buildings. Topics include: Pre-fire planning, building inventory, problem identification, ventilation methods, water supply, elevators, life safety, strategy and tactics, application of the ICS, and specific responsibilities. Case studies and simulation are used.

Fire Command 2D Planning for Large Scale Disasters
Key topics include: Principles of disaster planning and management, fire service emergency plans, emergency operations centers, case studies of various natural and man made disasters, and roles of local, state and federal OES and emergency management agencies, discussion of multi-hazard and ICS planning techniques, and principles of exercising emergency management staffs.

Fire Command 2E Wildland Fire Fighting Tactics
This course contains such topics as California’s wildland fire problem, wildland fire safety, weather effects, wildland fuels, wildland fire behavior, initial attack methods, using support equipment, using topographic maps, strategy and tactics, and air attack operations. Involves class participation and simulation.

Preparing for Incident Command
This NFA hand-off course provides the concepts of Incident Command as they apply to initial response incidents, and the ability to relate fire behavior pre-incident information, fire flow and proper communications in order to effectively command an incident with emphasis on fire fighter safety.

Incident Command System 100 Introduction to ICS
Students will be provided, through a self-paced text and progress checks, with an introduction to the basic organizational and operational concepts of the Incident Command System. The training emphasizes application to a wide variety of incidents.

Incident Command System I-200 Basic ICS
Consists of Modules 2-6 and meets the training needs of wildland fire personnel by introducing principles associated with the ICS. Topics include: Organization, facilities, resource terminology and the common responsibilities associated with incident or event assignments.

Incident Command System I-300 Intermediate ICS
Consists of Modules 7-11 and expands on Basic ICS by providing more description and detail of the organization and operation of the ICS. Topics include: Management of resources, duties of all positions, examples of how the essential principles are used in incident or event planning.

Incident Command System I-400 Advanced ICS
Consists of Modules 12-15. Topics include: Large-scale organization development, roles and relationships of primary staff, considerations related to large and complex incident or event management, area command and the importance of interagency coordination.

Incident Command System S-236 Staging Area Manager
Students will be provided, through a self-paced written text and a proctored final examination with the information necessary to organize, lay out, manage, and close a staging area.

Incident Command System S-334 Strike Team Leader-Engine
This course covers the basic responsibilities of an Engine Strike Team Leader. Subjects covered include: The strike team concept, types of strike teams, pre-incident responsibilities, assembly and travel, incident arrival and check-in, assigned/available status, out-of-service status, and demobilization/release.

Incident Command S-339 Division Group Supervisor
This course teaches the student the management skills necessary to fill the position of Division/Group Supervisor within the framework of ICS. It does not teach tactics or strategy and refers to these only to enhance the particular management technique associated with them.

Incident Command System S-400 Incident Commander
This course delivers information for operating as an Incident Commander within the framework of ICS. Subjects covered include: Incident briefing, incident planning, incident management, unified command, and incident demobilization.

Incident Command System S-401 Safety Officer
This course delivers information for operating as a Safety Officer within the ICS. Subjects covered include: Safety Officer effectiveness, analysis techniques, safety messages, briefings and special reports, and high hazard operations.

Incident Command System S-430 Operations Section Chief
This course presents the command, management, and supervision concepts necessary to function as an Operations Section Chief. Topics include: Command principles, organization of the operations section, briefings, developing the operations portion of the incident action plan, and supervising operations.

Incident Command System for Industry
This course provides an introduction to the basic organizational and operational concepts of the ICS. This course is not designed to teach personnel NFA's Incident Command System - this NFA hand-off course is designed for fire officers responsible to use, deploy, implement and/or function within an Incident Command System. Topics include: Overview of the ICS structure and expandability, effective command skills, guidelines and scenario practice on how to apply ICS, and guidelines and resource information for setting up and implementing a departmental ICS.

Check out our upcoming courses or contact us and we can develop a course tailored to your specific needs.