Signet North America is known throughout the United States and Canada as a leader in hazardous materials (hazmat) emergency response training, offering real-world expertise, comprehensive programs, and an unending commitment to excellence, ensuring responders are equipped to face even the most challenging incidents. Since our inception in 2006, Signet has earned a reputation as the premier choice for organizations seeking cutting-edge, practical, and customizable hazmat training solutions.
Signet North America’s training programs are designed to exceed the highest industry standards, including NFPA 470 and OSHA 29CFR1910.120(q). This commitment to regulatory compliance guarantees that your team receives training that is not only comprehensive and relevant but also aligned with the most current safety and operational guidelines.
Every organization faces unique challenges, and we recognize that one-size-fits-all training isn’t effective. Signet offers customized courses tailored to your specific needs, enabling your team to learn in environments that replicate the hazards they are most likely to encounter. We develop and deliver targeted instruction that addresses your operational realities.
Signet prioritizes hands-on, scenario-based learning that immerses participants in practical, real-world experiences. Our approach goes beyond classroom theory, ensuring students gain confidence and competence in applying our knowledge under realistic conditions. Whether it’s basic hazmat response or NIMS ICS courses, or more specialized topics like hazardous materials air monitoring, Hazmat Safety Officer training, advanced decontamination, or hazmat highway response, Signet prepares responders for success on the front lines.
Signet’s instructors are seasoned professionals with over 150 years of combined experience in hazardous materials response in both the public and private sectors, firefighting, law enforcement, emergency medicine, emergency management, military service, and more. . This wealth of expertise guarantees that students learn from educators who have faced firsthand—and solved—the challenges they teach. With this expertise and industry knowledge, we guide your teams through every step of the training process, from initial assessments to post-exercise evaluations. You can rely on Signet’s continuing guidance and support to ensure that your team is prepared for any hazmat emergency.
Signet brings your training directly to you. You can utilize your own equipment or ours, or a combination of both, whichever is most effective for you. Our unique approach allows you to train on your own equipment and facilities while developing customized emergency response strategies tailored to your environments. This approach also minimizes downtime for your team, allowing them to train in familiar surroundings while accommodating operational schedules. This level of convenience underscores Signet’s customer-first philosophy, making high-quality training accessible and efficient.
With training delivered (so far!) in 29 states and 6 provinces, we have a proven track record of educating and empowering responders throughout North America . Our programs have been successfully implemented for diverse teams, including firefighters, law enforcement, private sector response, military, railroads, highway shippers, and specialized facility teams.
Safety is the cornerstone of every course offered by Signet North America. Our programs are designed to instill a culture of safety in every participant, ensuring that responders protect themselves and effectively mitigate risks to their communities. By integrating the latest tools, technologies, and methodologies, Signet’s training programs continuously evolves to meet the dynamic nature of hazardous materials response.
Signet North America has trained thousands of responders, from public safety personnel to private sector teams to federal agencies and beyond. Our reputation for excellence has made us a trusted partner for organizations that cannot afford to compromise on safety or preparedness.
Signet North America’s training programs are designed to exceed the highest industry standards, including NFPA 470 and OSHA 29CFR1910.120(q). This commitment to regulatory compliance guarantees that your team receives training that is not only comprehensive and relevant but also aligned with the most current safety and operational guidelines.
Every organization faces unique challenges, and we recognize that one-size-fits-all training isn’t effective. Signet offers customized courses tailored to your specific needs, enabling your team to learn in environments that replicate the hazards they are most likely to encounter. We develop and deliver targeted instruction that addresses your operational realities.
Signet prioritizes hands-on, scenario-based learning that immerses participants in practical, real-world experiences. Our approach goes beyond classroom theory, ensuring students gain confidence and competence in applying our knowledge under realistic conditions. Whether it’s basic hazmat response or NIMS ICS courses, or more specialized topics like hazardous materials air monitoring, Hazmat Safety Officer training, advanced decontamination, or hazmat highway response, Signet prepares responders for success on the front lines.
Signet’s instructors are seasoned professionals with over 150 years of combined experience in hazardous materials response in both the public and private sectors, firefighting, law enforcement, emergency medicine, emergency management, military service, and more. . This wealth of expertise guarantees that students learn from educators who have faced firsthand—and solved—the challenges they teach. With this expertise and industry knowledge, we guide your teams through every step of the training process, from initial assessments to post-exercise evaluations. You can rely on Signet’s continuing guidance and support to ensure that your team is prepared for any hazmat emergency.
Signet brings your training directly to you. You can utilize your own equipment or ours, or a combination of both, whichever is most effective for you. Our unique approach allows you to train on your own equipment and facilities while developing customized emergency response strategies tailored to your environments. This approach also minimizes downtime for your team, allowing them to train in familiar surroundings while accommodating operational schedules. This level of convenience underscores Signet’s customer-first philosophy, making high-quality training accessible and efficient.
With training delivered (so far!) in 29 states and 6 provinces, we have a proven track record of educating and empowering responders throughout North America . Our programs have been successfully implemented for diverse teams, including firefighters, law enforcement, private sector response, military, railroads, highway shippers, and specialized facility teams.
Safety is the cornerstone of every course offered by Signet North America. Our programs are designed to instill a culture of safety in every participant, ensuring that responders protect themselves and effectively mitigate risks to their communities. By integrating the latest tools, technologies, and methodologies, Signet’s training programs continuously evolves to meet the dynamic nature of hazardous materials response.
Signet North America has trained thousands of responders, from public safety personnel to private sector teams to federal agencies and beyond. Our reputation for excellence has made us a trusted partner for organizations that cannot afford to compromise on safety or preparedness.
When the stakes are high, trust Signet North America to prepare your team for hazardous materials emergencies with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to respond effectively.
Our focus is always on people—your people. With a team boasting hundreds of years of combined experience in emergency response and instruction, our internationally-acclaimed Emergency Response Educators excel at bringing subject matter to life. They possess not only hard-earned knowledge of their content but also a keen understanding of the most effective instructional methods to create unforgettable learning experiences for our students.
At Signet, our mission is clear: to utilize world-class methodologies, equipment, information, and techniques to educate and train personnel for safe and efficient preparation and response to incidents and emergency situations. Guided by integrity and a commitment to excellence, we continuously strive to implement initiatives that align with our vision.
Our dedication to operational excellence extends to every aspect of our company, ensuring we meet or exceed the expectations of the diverse range of customers and entities we serve. Anchored by a set of core values shared by every member of our team, our long-term strategies and short-term actions are driven by a commitment to integrity, excellence, and unwavering dedication to our mission.
At Signet, we come to our clients rather than having them come to us. Many benefits arise, such as:
We create, in partnership with you, completely customized OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120(q) and NFPA 470-based training focused on your team’s, company’s, and community’s specific relevance, application, capabilities, and needs.
Signet has over $250,000 worth of fully mobile training equipment, protective gear, props, etc. we can bring to bear at any location at any time. However, we make it clear to our clients that even though we can bring it all, we strongly recommend that each organization utilize their own equipment as much as possible. The logic being that we want to be absolutely sure that they are fully ready to respond immediately upon completion of the training, and when they are called upon to respond, they will not be using our equipment, they’ll be using their own. This gives them an invaluable opportunity to become exponentially more familiar and proficient with all of their agency’s own equipment first, rather than working with someone else’s equipment which may not be what they will actually themselves have available.
In addition to the course materials, we also arrange for various site visits to local facilities to allow the students to become familiar firsthand with what they have in their own backyards, oftentimes introducing the representatives to each other for the first time. This creates/fosters the all-important relationships among those facilities and the response teams covering them, which is a huge win for everyone.
We can bring any class we offer to practically any location anywhere! Whether it be formal training centers, resort hotel conference rooms, school gymnasiums, maintenance facilities, fire departments, even uranium extraction facilities in the middle of the Khazakstan desert (yep, seriously), you name it we’ve probably done it! Fully-customized and hands-on intensive OSHA and NFPA 470-based training built specifically FOR each client, brought directly TO each client, making absolutely sure we Make It Right, Make It Relevant, and Make It Unforgettable®. That’s the Signet Experience.
Signet North America Owner Todd Skogland began his career in the fire service in 1992 as a volunteer firefighter in Pueblo West, CO. In 1993 Todd joined the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Transportation Technology Center (TTC) Emergency Services Bureau as a firefighter/EMT/Hazmat Technician, being named the department’s Training Officer later that year. In 1994, Todd was asked to join the TCI Emergency Response Training Center where he served until 2006 as Lead Instructor, designing and delivering hundreds of courses to thousands of responders from all over the world.
In 2006 Todd resigned from TTCI and created Signet North America centered upon a simple model for hazmat response training excellence:
Todd is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others, and has been privileged to work alongside and learn from some of the very best in the business. Taking those lessons and sharing them with thousands of emergency responders from various sectors and regions worldwide, both through training and through appearing as a featured presenter and keynote speaker at regional, national, and international hazmat response conferences and seminars throughout North America.
Pennsylvania
Not another boring HAZMAT class....... This class was a great interactive learning experience. Todd kept everyone engaged and presented hands on activities for the key concepts. The first day of class everyone slowly filled the room by the last day the students didn't want it to end. I have been to numerous hazmat classes over the years and have never experienced a hazmat class quite like this. Thanks Todd!!!!!!
Colorado
The best instructors in the industry Signet provided yet another knockout with this class. Whether you’re a new firefighter, company officer, or Chief, you will benefit from the high quality instruction from the best in the business. I’ve taken a few courses from signet and I think they get better each time. You will understand and be able to put your knowledge into practical use after taking a class from Signet.
Colorado
Career Changing I was voluntold that I was going to become a Hazmat Technician to meet the needs of my agency, and I had no previous passion about Hazmat. This class completely changed that. I thought I was going to hate the class and I absolutely loved it. The instructors are truly subject matter experts and have a lot of information to bestow on the students. Believe it or not, I actually wish I had more time in the class and it wasn't limited to 80 hours. It was outstanding.
Colorado
Excellent training from this group. Signet North America does not disappoint in it the education experience, the knowledge of its instructors and the overall educational package provided. Excellent educational experience.
Iowa
One of the best Haz Mat classes I ever attended. After 28 years in the fire service, it was refreshing to participate in an interactive and informative class that is normally a very dry subject. Kudos to Todd and Signet North America for a well thought out curriculum. Even my son is using info I learned for his 6th grade science project.
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