COURSE OVERVIEW

Tackle fires, thermal runaway, and failures in energy storage systems. Students analyze system design, hazard indicators, and failure modes. Through hands-on scenarios, they practice risk-based decision-making, suppression options, ventilation strategies, and scene control. The course emphasizes connecting system knowledge to operational choices, preventing escalation, and managing dynamic incidents involving batteries, hybrid setups, and other advanced energy storage technologies.

This course is built for hazardous materials technicians who need to make sense of ESS incidents without overcomplicating the problem. You’ll work through how these systems are built, how they fail, and what that failure actually produces—heat, pressure, flammable and toxic gases—and how that changes your approach. Using real-world case studies and scenario-based discussions, the focus stays on decisions: when to engage, when not to, and how to interpret what your meters, cameras, and observations are telling you before committing resources.

This course satisfies the following requirements: OSHA 1910.120; NFPA 1, 55, 70, 111, 400, 470, 471, 484, 485, 704, 855, 1072; ISO 17840-1:2022