Training Officers & Instructors

These resources offer a starting point to help training officers and instructors design and deliver training to their personnel in traffic incident management and responder safety in roadway incident responses. TIM and responder safety training should be part of initial (onboarding), recurring, refresher, and annual training rotations.

Key Standards

• Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways

NFPA 1091

• NFPA 1091: Standard for Traffic Incident Management Personnel Professional Qualifications

• Online Training Module: Understanding NFPA 1091

NFPA 1500

• NFPA 1500: Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Program.

• Online Training Module: Traffic Incident Management Requirements in NFPA 1500

High Visibility PPE

• American National Standard for High Visibility Safety Apparel. ANSI/ISEA 107-2020.

National Unified Goal

• Online Training Module: National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management

• Resources

Resources

• Professional Qualifications / Performance Standard

Credentials

• Certified Traffic Incident Management Person — Available from the Fire Department Safety Officers Association to all responders regardless of agency or organization. Exam study materials available on ResponderSafety.com

• National TIM Training Certificate — Available online from The Responder Safety Learning Network to all responders regardless of agency or organization.

Emergency Vehicles & Lighting

• Video — Best Practices for Backing Fire Apparatus and Ambulances

• Video — Marked and Seen

• Emergency Lighting Research Initiative

• Report — Impacts of Emergency Vehicle Marking Color, Patterns and Retroreflectivity on Safety-Related Driver Responses: Study Report

• Report — Effects of Emergency Vehicle Lighting Characteristics on Driver Perception and Behavior: Study Report

• Report — Hardening Blocking Vehicles for Traffic Incidents and Planned Special Events. Report of Workshop Proceedings. Emergency Responder Safety Institute.

• Report — Study of Protecting Emergency Responders on the Highways and Operation of Emergency Vehicles: A Review of First Responder Agencies Who Have Adopted Emergency Lighting and Vehicle Conspicuity Technology. Emergency Responder Safety Institute. Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association.

• Additional Resources — Vehicle Emergency Lighting and Markings

Helmets & Head Protection

• Online Training Module — Helmets and Head Protection for Roadway Incidents

• Helmets & Head Protection Initiative

• Report — 2020 Helmets and Head Protection Survey

Responder Safety & TIM Training

• Roadway Incident Safety for Emergency Responders — Quick Start Resource: An overview of what to do to protect emergency personnel operating in or near moving traffic at roadway incidents and core elements of a roadway incident safety program.

• The Responder Safety Learning Network: 40+ free online training modules, including critical procedures like blocking, advance warning, and manual traffic control procedures.

• Roadway Safety Shorts — Short videos demonstrating recommended practices for safer roadway operations to use in training rotations, safety breaks, and roll call or shift change reinforcement.

• Roadway Safety Teaching Topic Packages — Lesson plans for your instructors and training officers, including “TIM In A Minute” videos on key safety topics in roadway response.

• Online Training Module — LODDs on the Roadway: Safety Lessons Learned

• Online Training Module — Roadway Incident Safety Training Guidance for Fire Officers

• Online Training Module — Traffic Incident Management: Model Practices & Procedures

• Online Training Module — Traffic Incident Management: TIM Training & Resources

• Online Training Module — Understanding NFPA 1091

• Self-Guided Training Plans — Suggested training materials and progressions in key TIM/Responder Safety topics broken out by department role, including training plans for leadership.

  • Training Plans — Safety Stand Down

  • Training Plans — National Traffic Incident Response Awareness Week

  • Training Plans — Rural Roads

  • Training Plans — EMS

• Resources: Training

Line of Duty Deaths, Struck Bys, and Near Miss

• Video — Citizens’ Hose Company Struck By Incident Video Case Study

• Report a Struck By Incident to ResponderSafety.Com

• Struck By LODD Reports and Incident Data

• Search Struck By Incidents Database

• Online Training Module — LODDs on the Roadway: Safety Lessons Learned

• Resources: Struck By Incidents

• Near Miss Reporting

SOPs/SOGs

• Online Training Module — Recommended Practices for TIM SOPs

• Resources: SOPs/SOGs (includes model SOPs)