About Us

History

Hard Hat Training has been providing heavy equipment operator training services across the U.S. and Canada for nearly two decades. Our story started over 15 years ago in the Seattle area where we specialized in the inspection, testing, and certification of cranes. To this day, those same inspectors travel all over the country and even outside the country inspecting cranes and training heavy equipment operators. Our Hard Hat Training Series training tools have also become commonplace across the globe. Most recently, Africa, Abu Dhabi, and the United Arab Emirates have become markets filled with companies using our online training classes and customizable training kits to train their heavy equipment operators.

VISION STATEMENT

To help companies eradicate accidents and fatalities through consistent in-depth training and the establishment of an engaging safety culture.

MISSION STATEMENT

Our goal is to make safety training easy and affordable and to invite companies everywhere to stop doing things the hard way and, instead, start doing them the Hard Hat Training way!

VALUE STATEMENT

At Safety Provisions, we are just your run-of-the-mill folks, but with an intense desire to become the best we can be and to help you get the best you deserve. We are learners and teachers and learners evermore. We are fiercely independent yet humbly dependent. We expect from ourselves and others honesty, kindness, understanding, and gratitude. We strive to be aware of others’ needs and to be accessible so that we can fulfill them. And we are hyper-focused on delivering more than expected. We want you to feel comfortable turning to us again and again for any help you may need as you work tirelessly to create a safe work environment and achieve ultimate OSHA compliance.

OUR PURPOSE

Our main purpose is to provide you with easy and affordable compliant OSHA safety training solutions. We have an in-house support team to help you with all of your training needs. Our customer satisfaction is based on these three core values:

Quality

We offer robust training solutions that will cover all your safety needs at a price you can afford. In a time when safety training keeps getting shorter, we keep adding to ours to make it more comprehensive.

Simplicity

Our LMS and our training kits are easy to navigate. We do the research and design work to make training your employees as simple as possible without sacrificing quality.

Compliance

We offer training that complies with the most current U.S. and Canada standards. We also offer CalOSHA-specific trainings for our customers in California. If you don’t see what you need in our catalog, we take training requests as well.

MEET OUR TEAM

Myron
Principal Owner, Advisor

Myron has been working in the safety and health industry for nearly twenty years, having previously built, run, and then sold Arxcis, Inc—one of the leading crane inspection companies in the U.S.

Arthur
Principal Owner, Advisor

Arthur had the opportunity to buy an underutilized training division out of another company. That re-branded division has since turned into Safety Provisions, Inc, the home of the Hard Hat Training Series, which Arthur has been running for ten years.

Susan
Board Member, Advisor

Susan is a long-time nurse with a degree from the University of Washington. She currently volunteers her time helping and educating youth regarding physical and mental health.

Calista
Board Member, Advisor

With several health-related certifications, Calista spends her time advising, counseling, and educating clients regarding physical, mental, and emotional health. She is the mother of four boys.

Kerry
Trainer, Advisor

Kerry is a long-time operator, trainer, and master rigger. For over fifteen years, he has traveled the country inspecting and certifying cranes, as well as training and certifying heavy equipment operators and riggers. He specializes in cranes, forklifts, and aerial lifts.

Karl
Trainer

Karl is a long-time general contractor, equipment operator, and trainer. For over fifteen years, he has traveled the country training and certifying heavy equipment operators on everything from forklifts to aerial lifts to earth movers.

Blake
Trainer

Blake began work at Safety Provisions as an intern and quickly made himself invaluable. With a background in the oil and gas industry (where he dealt with hazardous waste operations and cleanup in the oil field), as well as his work as a Fire Safety Technician, Blake brings a wealth of knowledge when building and giving training.

Mary
Head Content Developer & Editor

Mary studied at Idaho State University and Utah State University, majoring in Technical Writing with an emphasis in editing. She took her education into the newspaper industry for eight years, first as a writer and then moving to editing. Mary has been with Safety Provisions more than 3 years, in which time she has pioneered our HR, Public Awareness, and Community Outreach trainings.

If you are intested in joining our team, visit our hard hat training careers/open positions page.

CHECK OUT OUR NEW CATEGORY PAGES

Forklift Training

Crane and/or Rigger Training

Earthmover Training

Human Resources Training

Community Awareness Training

Electrical Training

Industrial Hygiene Training

Maritime Training

OUR CUSTOMERS

Our training kits, online training courses, and other training materials are used by companies both small and large all across the globe–from the U.S. to Canada to Mexico, Africa, the United Arab Emirates and beyond. >>> See all our customers

HOW TO FIND YOUR CERTIFICATE

If you used our online safety training program, training under a company branch, or safety training kits and you are looking for your certification. Click below to find out how can you get it. >>> Find my safety certification

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank the following for the use of their photos in our products: AAAnimal Control Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center

And for our customers in Canada, we've worked non-stop with leading safety companies across your country in order to release Canada-compliant versions of these same training kits (each training kit comes with additional federal and provincial training and safety helps) and online training courses for Canadian operators. In fact, our online classes are our biggest sellers in Canada--used in virtually every province by companies such as Leavitt Machinery, SafeTech Training, City of Toronto, and others.

"Stop training the hard way. Do it the Hard Hat Training way instead!"
Making training easy and affordable.

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