System Safety Engineering
The System Safety Engineering course builds upon your knowledge as a safety professional or a supervisor/manager, to develop competence and sharpen skills in the techniques that support hazard discovery, the assessment and control of risk, and in reviewing work of this kind performed by others. You will receive guidance in the management of limited resources for the optimum control of risk.
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Systems Engineering module provided by TSTI, Inc.
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System Safety Engineering | 26-30 Oct 2026
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Software System Safety Engineering
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Software System Safety Engineering | Self-Paced
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Explosives Safety
Designed primarily for individuals who develop, assemble, test, inspect, approve, transport, store or in some other way handle explosive items or material, the Explosive Safety Course is an overview of hazards inherent to explosive operations; associated safety precautions; and methods to analyze, test and obtain approval for explosive activities. The material in this course is derived from the following sources and any subsequent flow down regulations for the individual military services, NASA and the DOE:
- 49 CFR Parts 100-185
- Department of Defense Explosive Safety Regulation 6055.09
(previously DoD 4145.26-M) - Safety Standard for Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnics NASA-STD-8719.12
- DOE-STD-1212-YYYY, DOE Explosives Safety Standard
- MIL-STD-882E, Standard Practices, System Safety Processes
The subjects covered in this 3-day class include:
- Explosives Basics
- Hazardous Stimuli
- Hazard Classification
- Insensitive Munitions
- Basic Storage & Transport Principles
- Explosive Item Recognition & Safety
- Quantity-Distance
- Reaction Effects
- Personnel Protection
- Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
- Explosives Testing
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection
- Lightning Protection
- Electromagnetic Radiation Protection
- Standing Operating Procedures (SOP) for A&E Operations
- Explosives Models
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Explosives Safety | 17-19 Nov 2026
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Explosives Safety Siting
Do you have an interest in a software tool that will help you more effectively manage your explosives program? Explosives Safety Siting (ESS) or sometimes called Automated Site Planning (ASP) is just that, a tool that is designed to assist in managing a more efficient and effective program. While ESS/ASP is primarily designed to generate Explosives Safety Site Plans (ESSP), it is also a great tool for generating risk assessments, planning for construction projects, and managing your Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation (HERO) programs. Whether you’re looking to learn ESS/ASP from the basic level or if you’re looking to sharpen your skills, we’re here to help. Contact us today to learn more about what our ESS Training Course has to offer.
Prior to attending the course, each student must ensure they have operable ESS software, to include the ArcGIS license installed and active. APT does not have the ability to provide hardware/software to each student.
Lightning Protection Systems for Explosives Safety Technicians
Course Overview: The Lightning Protection Systems (LPSs) for Explosives Safety (ES) Technicians online course is meticulously crafted to provide comprehensive training to ES Technicians who supervise LPSs and grounding programs in explosives locations. This program aims to equip participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform day-to-day tasks related to LPS and grounding system explosives safety concepts, ensuring compliance with critical safety requirements.
Course Objectives: Participants of this course will gain proficiency in the following areas:
- Application of LPS and Grounding System Explosives Safety Concepts: Participants will learn how to apply key LPS and grounding system explosives safety concepts in their daily responsibilities.
- Surge Protection: Detailed understanding of surge protection mechanisms and their importance in explosives environments.
- Zone of Protection: Comprehensive knowledge about the designation and maintenance of zones of protection.
- Types of Systems: Exploration of various LPS types and their specific applications in explosives contexts.
- Bonding: In-depth study of bonding requirements and procedures to ensure system integrity and safety.
- Testing and Record Keeping Requirements: Mastery of accurate and thorough testing methodologies and essential record-keeping practices.
- Regulatory Compliance: The course content aligns with the latest standards and regulations, ensuring participants are well-versed in:
- NFPA 780: Standard for the Installation of LPSs
- DESR 6055.09: Department of Defense (DoD) Explosives Safety Regulation
- Other Relevant Regulatory Publications: Additional standards and guidelines pertinent to LPS in explosives locations
Target Audience: This course is specifically tailored for ES Technicians responsible for:
- Overseeing LPSs and Grounding Programs: Professionals who manage and maintain LPS and grounding in explosives locations.
- Developing Explosives Safety Site Plans (ESSP): Individuals engaged in creating ESSPs, particularly those involving LPS design assessments for explosives environments.
By participating in this training, ES Technicians will enhance their expertise, ensuring the highest level of safety and regulatory compliance in their operations involving LPSs and grounding programs for explosives locations. Contact us today to learn more about what our LPS Training Course has to offer.
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Lightning Protection Systems for Explosives Safety Technicians
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Reliability Engineering
The Reliability Engineering training course is designed for professionals wanting to advance their understanding and knowledge in reliability engineering tools and techniques and their application in technical assessments and special studies. The course includes an introductory module of key definitions, basic statistics, and a review of the basic principles of the reliability engineering discipline, including a description of a reliability case for establishing and managing a reliability engineering program. The rest of the course modules focus on reliability engineering tools and techniques used by engineering professionals throughout government and industry.
Risk Management for Safety Engineers
As a discipline, safety engineering exists in many sectors of our economy, and managing risk is the primary function of the discipline. Practitioners have applied their techniques in aerospace, transportation, explosives, testing, industrial, and chemical operations for decades. More recently, the medical, food service, and environmental sectors have begun establishing practices with similar overarching purpose.
This course provides an overview of the underlying processes used to manage risks and demonstrates the common elements that can be applied to any sector of our economy. The most common of these processes is IARA, an acronym for Identify, Assess, Reduce, Accept. The safety case approach is also presented and benefits reviewed. The necessary understanding begins with the language and math needed to communicate and develop a risk management program. The history of improvements made in management processes is reviewed. Pascalian methods are highlighted.
The first half of this five-day class is applicable to managing safety risks from any and all sectors. The second half focuses on specific practices applicable to system safety, range or launch safety, explosives safety, industrial or OSHA safety, operational safety, reliability, software safety, and quality.
This course is designed for safety engineers at all levels, as well as system engineers, and program and project managers. The beginning safety engineer will learn techniques to identify hazards as risk factors and methods to reduce the risks. The journeyman safety engineer will recognize practices used in their sector, and learn how other sectors apply similar techniques. Systems engineers and managers will gain an understanding of how safety engineering integrates into overall systems engineering, and recognize the importance of the “accept” function within overall management.
Course instructors have over 40 years of experience as practicing safety engineering professionals. They will provide numerous experience-based insights during the course.
This course is available as an instructor-led course and in a self-paced format. The instructor-led training course is available by request for groups of five or more students. If you have an interested group, let us know here!
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Risk Management for Safety Engineers | Self-Paced
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Launch Safety Training | Self-Paced
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Radiation Safety Basics
The Radiation Safety Basics course is a 1-day training course that is designed as an RSO refresher or an introductory course for a safety professional or a supervisor/manager. The goal of this course is to improve your knowledge about radiation safety. The topics covered in this course include:
- Introduction to Health Physics
- Radiation Fundamentals and Sources
- Contamination Control
- Radiation Protection Standards and Guidelines
- Personnel Dosimetry
- Radiation Detection Instruments
- Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- Medical and Industrial Uses of Radiation
- Nuclear Power Systems
Instructor: Keith Rose is a Health Physicist with the Safety Engineering and Analysis Center (SEAC) in Huntsville, AL. He is a graduate of the University of North Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and attended graduate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Rose has over 30 years experience in the Health Physics field. He worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority for over 10 years before transferring to Redstone Arsenal. At Redstone Arsenal he served as a Physicist and Health Physicist for the U.S. Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity before accepting a position with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Safety Office. Mr. Rose was responsible for the AMCOM Aviation, Missile, and Operational Radiation Safety Programs worldwide. He has worked to solve Radiation Safety issues for the Army and the FBI since retiring from the Army. Mr. Rose is board certified by the American Board of Health Physics.
Course Duration and Format: This course is available by request for groups of five or more students. Let us know you’re interested here! The course is 8 hours over 1 day, with about 6 hours of lecture and time for students to complete workshop problems or review course materials with the instructor. Class size will be limited to 30 attendees. Attendees of this course will typically be awarded up to 0.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU) upon completion of this course.
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING
IMESAFR
Users are required to complete the IMESAFR training class to obtain the software license.
Institute of Makers of Explosives Safety Analysis for Risk (IMESAFR) is a probabilistic risk assessment tool used to calculate risk to personnel from explosives facilities. This tool is a supplement to the longstanding American Table of Distances (ATD) and other Quantity Distance (QD) systems. In addition to its integrated QD methodology, IMESAFR determines a level of safety based upon risk, providing a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) capability. To perform that QRA, IMESAFR uses the donor structure, the activity at the donor, and the structure of the exposed sites to determine the level of safety.
IMESAFR provides a standard TNT-based engine for risk calculations. Most explosives behave in a manner sufficiently similar to TNT to simply scale output of those materials up or down if more or less powerful than TNT (called TNT equivalence), but ammonium nitrate (AN) has a distinct waveform which cannot be approximated with TNT equivalence. Therefore, IMESAFR features a separate AN engine to calculate the risk from AN operations. IMESAFR’s AN Engine is a semi-empirical, physics-based, fast-running model that characterizes AN events based on the AN detonation waveform (built from dedicated AN testing and analysis programs rather than TNT equivalency).
Features for v2.3 include NATO-based QD tables, undo button, barricade improvements, unit system conversions after starting a file, HD 1.2 inclusion, mass distribution and debris logic updates, ES pressure and impulse adjustments, GUI usability enhancements, and more.
IMESAFR v2.3 training is presented over 3 days with 8 hours of mixed lecture and discussion each day, for a total of 24 classroom hours. Daily class hours are from 8am to 5pm with an hour for lunch and breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon. A competency test will be given at the end of the course.
IMESAFR Demo Video
The video below will walk through a brief look at what running IMESAFR looks like.
The IMESAFR v2.3 Ammonium Nitrate (AN) Module training provides an overview of AN Engine algorithms, new PES types, and exercises. The IMESAFR v2.3 AN Module is presented in 4 hours of mixed lecture and discussion. Training is typically presented the morning after IMESAFR v2.3 training. Class hours are from 8am to 12pm. A mid-morning break is provided. The purchase of an IMESAFR v2.3 AN Voucher allows the customer to attend training for IMESAFR v2.3 AN Module. The voucher may be exchanged for a seat at any regularly-scheduled, Huntsville-based IMESAFR v2.3 AN Module training course.
Using IMESAFR for American Table of Distances (ATD) Compliance training includes an overview of how IMESAFR v2.3 incorporates the ATD, demonstrating compliance using IMESAFR, and submitting a plat plan for ATF approval. Using IMESAFR for ATD Compliance training is presented in 8 hours of mixed lecture and discussion. Training is typically presented the day after IMESAFR v2.3 training. Class hours are from 8am to 5pm with an hour for lunch and breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon. If you are interested in ATD training, contact us at imesafrtraining@apt-research.com.
As a condition of purchase, all users of IMESAFR must complete training from APT on the usage of the code. To become a certified user, users must demonstrate proficiency at/after the conclusion of training. In order to access the AN engine in IMESAFR, users are required to attend the add-on AN module training.
Cancellation Policy: If you are forced to cancel your reservations after payment of the fee, you will be entitled to transfer to a later class or a 50% refund until two weeks prior to the class date. No refunds are available if requested less than 15 days prior to class date but substitutions can be arranged. If minimum attendance for financial viability is not met, APT reserves the right to cancel the course up to 15 days prior to class date.
If you would like to attend, but are unavailable for the dates listed, or are interested in training at your facility, or want more information about IMESAFR training, contact us @ imesafrtraining@apt-research.com, 256.327.3373.
System Requirements:
- PC running MS Windows 10 or later
- 190MB of disk space
- 4GB of RAM
System Recommendations:
- 250 MB of disk space
- 8GB of RAM
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IMESAFR v2.3 Annual License
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IMESAFR v2.3 Full Training | Huntsville, AL, US | 2026
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IMESAFR v2.3 AN Module Training 2026
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IMESAFR Advanced Tech Support
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IMESAFR v2.3 Two-Year License
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IMESAFR Awareness Session
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SAFER Software
The course is presented over 2 days with mixed lecture and discussion each day. Daily class hours are from 8am to 5pm with an hour for lunch, and mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks. A competency test will be given at the end of the course. Training participants will need a laptop computer with administrative rights to install the software and run reports.
Contact safertraining@apt-research.com to request access to the registration page.
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