Custom Training

MFRI has built a reputation for quality safety training by providing practical, hands-on experience for the participants. Employees who experience regulatory compliance training under MFRI's guidance actually perform the duties just as they would in the workplace.

MFRI is able to supply your personnel with site-specific training related to your facilities and equipment. Whenever it is possible, MFRI prefers to train at the facility utilizing the surroundings and equipment with which the employee will be working. Site-specific programs are the key to successful and cost-effective regulatory compliance training. OSHA recommends, and in many cases requires, safety training which is realistic to the working conditions. Site-specific training provided at the facility also reduces the training time per employee and eliminates the employee travel expenses.

MFRI's Industrial Training Specialists are available to inspect, review, analyze, and recommend safety training programs that will meet your unique requirements. The training package provided by MFRI will be:

• Developed by MFRI in partnership with your safety and management personnel.
• Created to meet your special site-specific needs and operations.
• Performance based with objectives that require your employees to master the skill proficiency required by safety regulations or practices.
• Designed to produce the most effective safety program possible utilizing the employee time and resource available.

The Special Programs Section promotes understanding and cooperation between the professional emergency services community and safety professionals in both industry and government through contract training and seminars. The Section also provides the fire service community outside the State of Maryland with quality training and consulting programs, including those offerings presented to the Maryland fire service community by the Field Operations Section of MFRI. There is also the capability of offering specialty training to the Maryland fire service community that is beyond the scope of the MFRI field programs. Programs in Trench Collapse and Rescue and consulting services in Comprehensive Master Planning are examples of the SPS proficiency.

The development of specialized training programs is essential to the daily operation of the Special Programs Section in serving clients as diverse as Hershey Foods, AT&T, General Motors, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Westinghouse, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Potomac Electric Power Company, Social Security Administration, U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, and other local, state, and federal agencies.

The instructors utilized in the industrial program are faculty and adjunct faculty of MFRI. The MFRI instructors are experienced in emergency services and industry safety concepts. In addition, there are State of Maryland requirements for certification and recertification for emergency service instructors.

MFRI provided more that 400 training programs to industry and government during the last year. More than 7,000 students received instruction in safety and regulatory compliance from the MFRI faculty. MFRI provides consulting services across the country in the development of safety and compliance programs, emergency services system evaluation, and other areas. The Institute has more than 65 years of experience in training adults, coupled with more than 25 years serving industry and government in safety and regulatory compliance training.

The MFRI programs rely on the knowledge and resources of the University of Maryland System to obtain services and assistance to serve you.