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TEEX’s Infrastructure Training and Safety Institute offers a variety of distance learning and online opportunities. Click here to learn about other online training opportunities from TEEX.

Disaster Management / Homeland Security

This course offered as part of the TEEX/NERRTC Domestic Preparedness Campus. Upon course completion, participants will possess a basic understanding of the federal controlling authorities for WMD/terrorism incidents; an overview of the Incident Command System (ICS) for WMD/terrorism incidents; and a knowledge of the federal resources available to assist and support their jurisdiction in the event of a WMD/terrorism incident.

For additional information, view the course details below.

AWR112 Public Works: WMD Basic Concepts View Details


Electric Power

This online course provides a foundational understanding of the basic principles of electricity and a comprehensive understanding of voltage, current, resistance, and power and their interrelationships.

For additional information, view the course details below.

EPP400 Fundamentals of Electricity View Details


Safety & Health

For more information, click on the course details below.

OSO510 Online Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry View Details
OSO511 Online Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the General Industry View Details
SAF911 OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach Course View Details
SAF912 OSHA 30-Hour Construction Outreach Course View Details
SAF913 OSHA 10-Hour General Industry Outreach Course View Details
SAF914 OSHA 30-Hour General Industry Outreach Course View Details


The CareerSafe online program is an interactive, Y2Y (Youth Teaching Youth) online program that addresses the high-priority safety training needs of young workers. Throughout the program, students explore a wide range of topics including laws, guidelines, behaviors, and equipment intended to help them Start Safe and Stay Safe.

Once a student successfully completes the online CareerSafe course, he or she receives a wallet card that demonstrates that the student has the fundamental safety knowledge needed in the workplace.

OSH930 CareerSafe - Youth Safety Training View Details


Water and Wastewater

Online Courses

A new web-based course, Online Hazardous Material Awareness (WWW351), has been launched by the Water and Wastewater Program of TEEX's Infrastructure and Training Institute. The one-hour awareness-level course will provide utility workers with a better understanding of the dangers presented by hazardous materials in the workplace and prepare them to protect themselves, others and the environment.

The course is aimed primarily at water, wastewater and other public works and infrastructure personnel, to promote workplace safety and provide a basic, awareness-level training in hazardous material.

WWW351 Online Hazardous Material Awareness View Details


Correspondence Courses

The TEEX Water and Wastewater Correspondence Course Program allows you to complete Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)water and wastewater requirements in the comfort of your own home. Our correspondence courses are especially helpful to those who live in rural areas where water/wastewater classes may not be regularly held.

Each course is approved for 20 hours of CEU credit in Texas by TCEQ for licensing or renewal licensing.

Please Note: In accordance with 30 TAC 30.28(p)(3)(c), correspondence courses repeated within the same renewal period will not receive training credit if the training uses the same performance-based assessment.


WWW450 Basic Wastewater Operations View Details
WWW400 Basic Water Works Operations View Details
WWW452 Wastewater Collection View Details
WWW401 Groundwater Production View Details
WWW451 Wastewater Treatment View Details


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