IICRC Fire & Smoke Restoration Technician (FSRT)

Sponsors and Course Design:

• The FSRT course can either be instructed as a “Private Class” or an “Open Class,” anywhere in the US, Canada, Australia, and other countries where the class can be instructed in English or interpreted in a foreign language.
  • A “Private Class” is one where students or individuals are from the same company, association, or they are sponsor selected.
  • An “Open Class” is one where students or individuals can apply to take the course from the sponsor, where the sponsor agrees to have the class marketed on the IICRC website.
• Minimum costs for instructing an IICRC-FSRT approved course through a sponsor is $1,500.00 a day + expenses (USA) or $2,500 a day + expenses (International) per person.

Course is Intended for:

• Our 3-Day FSRT course is for everyone (e.g., insurance adjusters, restorers, property managers, industrial and occupational hygienists, building engineers, laboratory technicians, medical doctors, attorneys) who require knowledge about fire-related problems that occur in buildings experiencing fire and smoke, water damage from fire suppression systems, or firefighters using chemical suppressants. Resulting fire damage can cause building occupant and worker exposure to toxins, carcinogens, mold, bacteria.
• When arriving, students receive a printed black and white manual, a study guide, and an electronic download of a 200 page fire and smoke impaction glossary.

Course General Description:

• The FSRT course addresses how buildings should be assessed from a hazard and risk management prospective; maintain open communication with all responsible parties; recognizing and addressing potential liabilities, including project limitations, complications, and complexities; using properly written contracts; establishing methods and procedures for protecting occupants in occupied buildings verses non-occupied buildings; completing an occupant and responsibly-party interview; documenting current building conditions through project completion; monitoring the health and safety of workers; protecting non-affected environments and contents from affected environments and contents; using third-party professionals, such as industrial hygienists to sample and analyze for asbestos, lead-paint, chemicals, toxins, soot, char, and ash, mold, and bacteria, which is completed for collecting baseline data, during the project data, and post remediation evaluation/verification data; equipment required to mitigate or remediate fire damaged and smoke impacted structures; processes involving remediation, including the containment and disposal of fire damaged or microbially impacted materials; processes involving remediating contents and ventilation systems; deodorizing secondary smoke impacted environments; applying lock-down sealers and deodorants; cleanup and deodorizing equipment.
• Depending on student questions, the course is open to discussing additional issues such as identifying a small loss from a medium to a large loss, and structural interiors identified as total loss; addressing occupant complaints or concerns; special hazards associated with lithium-ion batteries to identifying and removing chemicals in storage facilities and garages; the estimated time required to complete phases of work; contents inventory and packout; identifying total loss contents from salvageable items; mitigating or remediating attics and crawlspaces; using computer-based estimating, and time and material costs; working in community-wide disasters such as wildfires.

About Patrick Moffett

Patrick Moffett started Building Restoration Institute, after many years of experience as an IICRC approved instructor and master restorer in water and fire. He is a California Registered Environmental Assessor and an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Compliance Trainer. Mr. Moffett is approved by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification to teach water damage restoration and microbial, smoke odor, and fire remediation. He has received more than 15 industry awards for his efforts in the realm of environmental cleanup, including supporting industry mold standards.