Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Course

The NFPA 1850 PPE Program Course is a two-day implementation workshop that helps fire departments develop, manage, and sustain an effective structural firefighting Personal Protective Equipment program. It combines standards-based instruction with guided program-development activities and reusable implementation resources.

No. Although participants learn the applicable NFPA 1850 requirements, the course is designed around practical implementation. Participants work through the foundational elements of a department-specific PPE program and leave with resources that can support continued development after the course.

The course is intended for PPE Program Managers, Health and Safety Officers, firefighters, Company Officers, Chief Officers, and other personnel responsible for PPE selection, inspection, cleaning, maintenance, documentation, repair, retirement, or program oversight.

The course is delivered over two days and includes instructor-led discussions, standards-based instruction, guided workshops, and PPE program-development activities.

Probie Fire Training delivers the course on-site at your department or installation. This allows personnel from multiple roles to participate together and build a PPE program around the department’s actual operational needs.

The maximum class size is 12 students. The smaller group format supports discussion, practical guidance, and meaningful participation in the program-development workshops.

Each participant receives a student handbook, an NFPA 1850 PPE Program Development Guidebook, and all required course materials. The course also includes reusable resources that departments can use during implementation and future program improvement.

Participants will learn how to:

• Develop an NFPA 1850-compliant PPE program

• Perform routine, advanced, and specialized PPE inspections

• Establish cleaning and contamination-reduction procedures

• Address PPE maintenance, repair, and retirement

• Create documentation and recordkeeping systems

• Select structural firefighting PPE using current requirements

• Manage PPE throughout its service life

• Reduce firefighter exposure risks through better PPE management

Yes. The course addresses routine, advanced, and specialized PPE inspections, including how inspection practices fit within a department’s broader PPE management and documentation system.

Yes. Participants learn how cleaning, decontamination, maintenance, repair, and retirement procedures work together to support PPE performance and reduce firefighter exposure risks.

Participants begin developing the foundational components of a department-specific PPE program through guided workshops and the PPE Program Development Guidebook. The goal is to leave with practical deliverables and a structured framework that the department can continue implementing and refining.

No. The course is suitable for municipal, industrial, Department of War, and other fire departments that need to establish or improve a structural firefighting PPE program.

Yes. Departments can use the course to evaluate existing practices, identify gaps, improve documentation, standardize procedures, and align their PPE program more closely with current requirements.

Contact Probie Fire Training with your preferred dates, training location, estimated number of students, and department needs. The Probie team will provide scheduling and pricing information for on-site delivery.