The Texas Engineering Extension Service’s (TEEX) Emergency Services Training Institute and Industrial Safety Training Council’s (ISTC) Beaumont Emergency Services Training Complex  announced a partnership today that allows ISTC/BEST to teach several recognized National Professional Qualification Standard, or Pro Board, courses that are available through TEEX accreditation.

The agreement will allow both training entities to deliver courses at a regional level.  Targeted courses are those delivered by TEEX in Industrial Firefighting, Hazardous Material Response and Rescue.   ISTC’s BEST Complex offers professionally trained instructors, realistic evolutions and opportunities for different modes of course delivery..

To ensure quality and accreditation, TEEX will oversee the offered Pro Board courses offered at the BEST complex.  World renowned for its hands-on, customized training, the Texas Engineering Extension Service offers a wide range of technical, skills training programs.  In 2006, TEEX provided training and technical assistance to more than 221,500 people from all 50 states, five U.S. territories, the District of Columbia and 57 countries through 6,000 classes conducted across the nation and world.

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