FASNY Partners with TargetSafety to Launch Groundbreaking PESH/OSHA Training Online

FASNY and TargetSafety have developed the FASNY Firefighter Safety Annual Refresher, a customized, eight-hour, web-based training program designed to comply with the annual, non-practical OSHA/PESH safety requirements for volunteer firefighters in New York.

Visit the FASNY website to access this program. And if you’re a New York volunteer fire chief, click here to find out how you can receive a free, four-hour online course from retired Phoenix Fire Chief, Alan Brunacini.

The eight-hour OSHA/PESH training course is delivered in four parts, each part lasting approximately two hours. The course components include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying Workplace Hazards
• Firefighter PPE
• Emergency Response Driving
• Defensive Driving
• Building Construction
• Ventilation
• Ladder Safety
• Safety in EMS Operations
• Emergency Incident Rehab

In addition to the eight-hour module, FASNY and TargetSafety are offering the following online individual courses (total 12 hours):

• Fire Industry Driver Operator
• Fire Industry Intersection Safety
• Emergency Vehicle Characteristics
• Driving Safe-Backing Up
• NFPA 1021 Firefighter Safety and Health
• NFPA 1021 Incident Response Safety
• NFPA 1001 Firefighter Orientation and Safety
• NFPA 1001 Firefighter PPE
• NFPA 1001 Rescue and Extrication
• NFPA 1001 Vehicle Extrication
• NFPA 1001 Building Construction
• NFPA 1001 Ventilation

* This course does NOT include the Equipment Inspection or SCBA familiarization/Inspection (approximately two hours), which by their nature are hands-on components. In order to ensure compliance with the full OSHA/PESH refresher, the equipment inspection and SCBA components will need to be provided and completed by your fire department training officer and/or Chief and signed off by him or her.

Please contact TargetSafety at (877) 944-6372 for more information about this exciting new offering!