Accredited Professional Certification
Our ProBoard Accreditation demonstrates that our program has operated at the highest level of emergency services training for over 30 years.
The Bucks County Community College is accredited by the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications (ProBoard). This means that the levels of accredited professional certification offered by the Bucks County Community College meet or exceed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards, along with all requirements set forth by ProBoard.
The process to become accredited is voluntary and only the most capable agencies apply for consideration. When an emergency services training agency applies for the accreditation their policies are studied, procedures and processes are tested to ensure their certification testing process is evaluated and held to the standards of the accrediting body and compliance with the current NFPA standards. The Bucks County Community College is also accredited through the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which brings additional value knowing your training and certification needs are coming from an accredited higher educational institution.
The Bucks County Community College (formally the County of Bucks) has been ProBoard accredited since 1994 when accreditation was sought and successfully obtained. Over the years, Bucks County Community College has continued to add additional certification levels and the courses to obtain those levels.
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If you have specific questions about Accredited Professional Certification please contact us at PSCertification@bucks.edu.
Certification Level Information
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Awareness Level (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations "CORE" (Chapter 7) Level (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations: Detection, Monitoring, & Sampling (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations: Mass Decontamination (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations: Personal Protective Equipment (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations: Product Control (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Operations: Technical Decontamination (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Technician Level (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Incident Commander (NFPA 470)
- Hazardous Materials/WMD Safety Officer (NFPA 470)
- Fire Fighter 1 (NFPA 1001)
- Fire Fighter 2 (NFPA 1001)
- Driver Operator - Aerial Device (NFPA 1002)
- Driver Operator - Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Apparatus (NFPA 1002)
- Driver Operator - Mobile Water Supply Apparatus (NFPA 1002)
- Driver Operator - Pumper (NFPA 1002)
- Driver Operator - Tiller (NFPA 1002)
- Airport Fire Fighter (NFPA 1003)
- Confined Space Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Confined Space Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Confined Space Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Rope Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Rope Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Rope Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Structural Collapse Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Structural Collapse Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Structural Collapse Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Common Passenger Vehicle Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Common Passenger Vehicle Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Common Passenger Vehicle Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Heavy Vehicle Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Heavy Vehicle Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Heavy Vehicle Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Trench Technical Rescuer Awareness Level (NFPA 1006)
- Trench Technical Rescuer Operations Level (NFPA 1006)
- Trench Technical Rescuer Technician Level (NFPA 1006)
- Fire Company Officer 1 (NFPA 1021)
- Fire Company Officer 2 (NFPA 1021)
- Fire Company Officer 3 (NFPA 1021)
- Fire Company Officer 4 (NFPA 1021)
- Fire Inspector 1 (NFPA 1031)
- Fire Inspector 2 (NFPA 1031)
- Fire Inspector 3 (NFPA 1031)
- Plans Examiner 1 (NFPA 1031)
- Plans Examiner 2 (NFPA 1031)
- Fire Investigator (NFPA 1033)
- Public Fire and Life Safety Educator 1 (NFPA 1035)
- Public Fire and Life Safety Educator 2 (NFPA 1035)
- Fire and Emergency Services Instructor 1 (NFPA 1041)
- Fire and Emergency Services Instructor 2 (NFPA 1041)
- Fire and Emergency Services Instructor 3 (NFPA 1041)
- Live Fire Instructor (NFPA 1041)
- Live Fire Instructor In Charge (NFPA 1041)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator 1 (NFPA 1225)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator 2 (NFPA 1225)
- Fire Department Safety Officer - Health and Safety Officer (NFPA 1521)
- Fire Department Safety Officer - Incident Safety Officer (NFPA 1521)