Confined Space Safety

OSHA Compliance and Mandated Training Programs

 

Since 1984, Emergency Response Systems has authored and delivered more than four hundred Confined Space training programs for a variety of industrial, government and municipal clients including; NFPA, General Motors, United States Coast Guard , Department of Defense, and the American Bureau of Shipping. We provide both performance based classroom and hands-on training.

Our training is customized to meet the individual customer's needs. Our training programs address insurance company and OSHA mandates and focus on specified learning objectives. ERS trainers are educators and practitioners with extensive real world experience in managing OSHA Confined Space Safety programs, atmospheric testing, self and technical rescue.  We implement a variety of learning methodologies to properly address OSHA mandated training requirements and record all of our training to provide our customers with required documentation.

 

Our staff is comprised of industry and military professionals from the following disciplines:

 

• Course design and development Specialists
• OSHA Certified Instructors
• OSHA Compliance Specialists
• Technical Rescue Specialists
• Organizational Confined Space Safety Planning Specialists

 

Training Programs

 

 In addition to our three day course on “Managing a Confined Space Program To Meet OSHA 1910.146 Requirements”, we offer each of the subjects below as separate learning programs:

 

• Establishing and Managing Confined Space Safety
• Entrant and Attendant Training
• Fit Testing
• OSHA Compliance
• Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
• Permits
• Instrumentation and testing for Supervisors
• Testing
• Self Rescue
• Technical Rescue

 

Our team of experts is ready to develop and implement custom training solutions that properly address confined space training requirements. 

 

 

 

 

 

PERSONNELL DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS 

 

EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS has been in the business of fire department professional development and personnel assessment programs since 1984.  Our primary work involves assisting communities and emergency response organizations in achieving organizational excellence through selecting and developing employees as professionals and quality service providers. We have assisted more than seventy communities in designing, developing, conducting, scoring and administering personnel assessment programs.  By intent, we remain a small custom business, providing customer-specific, customer-centric programs and services.

 

• Our Approach to Assessments

Our fundamental approach to the assessment process is based upon using appropriately educated, dedicated, and trained professionals who consistently demonstrate honesty, integrity, and fairness. 

 

 

We believe that …	Therefore, we . . .
The validity of any assessment process must start with a practical understanding of what knowledge, skills, and attitudes are essential to the job.  We need to know what the organization expects its people to do and what knowledge, practices, and behaviors will be required to manage, lead, and follow.	Listen to, secure, and properly document vital information about job responsibilities before designing or developing the assessment process.
Written test items must be based upon content-specific information.  No matter how well constructed, they have a tendency to rely upon a candidate’s ability to “parrot” information.  Therefore, written tests will be used as only one component of out integrated assessment processes.  Test items must be validated, relevant, and based on specified learning objectives.	Use professionals to develop and validate test items that assess essential knowledge and understanding.  Limit and, where possible, avoid “bird-based” evaluations (Test-Validate-Analyze).
A fairly-weighted, integrated, portfolio assessment process, including a structured resume review, is the most effective way to conduct an assessment process.  The focus of assessment exercises is on measuring a candidate’s understanding and application of identified leadership and management dimensions, together with operational responsibilities.	Use consensus to observe a candidate’s ability through past (resume review process) and present (assessment exercises) methods that demonstrate behaviors in support of key job dimensions, thus providing the best opportunity to predict his or her success in directing, managing, and leading others.