UPCOMING TNSAVE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
TNSAVE is conducting post-disaster structural evaluation training. Our goal is to have 7000 trained inspectors. If you want to help people in their darkest hour using your professional training and experience, we invite you to sign up for TNSAVE and become certified by taking one of our upcoming classes.
TNSAVE is comprised of professional organizations whose objective is to help the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) develop and maintain a post-disaster building inspector program. TNSAVE serves TEMA and the State of Tennessee to train and organize building inspectors for disasters such as earthquakes, tornados and floods. TNSAVE Members are usually engineers, architects, building inspectors/enforcement, or other construction and design professionals with an interest in serving following a disaster.
To be eligible to volunteer to perform building evaluations for TEMA following a disaster, you must have taken our training or an approved alternate within the last 3 years. Here is information about upcoming trainings:
TNSAVE will be hosting training sessions in 2026! Virtual attendance opportunities may be available. All dates are subject to change.
Nashville:
Visual Assessment Training in Nashville - August 28, 2026 - TEMA Headquarters - Register Here
The trainings are being offered FREE of charge, unless noted otherwise, and is being funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).
Regardless of whether you attend one of the classes, you can become a member of TNSAVE by filling out this form.
A virtual offering will be available for this training session. Please make sure to register for the event at the link above. A link to the virtual session will only be sent to registered attendees on or before the event date.
Chattanooga:
Visual Assessment Training in Nashville - October 16, 2026 - Chattatnooga State - Register Here
The trainings are being offered FREE of charge, unless noted otherwise, and is being funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).
Regardless of whether you attend one of the classes, you can become a member of TNSAVE by filling out this form.
A virtual offering will be available for this training session. Please make sure to register for the event at the link above. A link to the virtual session will only be sent to registered attendees on or before the event date.
RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENTAL TRAINING
The free courses listed below are recommended, but not required for TNSAVE members. PDH and CEU certificates are awarded upon completion.
FEMA provided training (Online, Self-Paced)
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
ICS-200 - ICS for Single resource and Initial Action Incidents *
ICS-700.B - An Introduction to the National Incident Management System *
ICS-703.B - National Incident Management System Resource Management *
IS-706 - NIMS Intrastate Mutual Aid - An Introduction *
IS-800.D - National Response Framework, An Introduction *
IS-8.A - Building for the Earthquakes of Tomorrow: Complying with Executive Order 12699
IS-21.24 - Civil Rights and FEMA Disaster Assistance
IS-26 - Guide to Points of Distribution
IS-27 - Orientation to FEMA Logistics
IS-35.24 - FEMA Safety Orientation
IS-120.C - An Introduction to Exercises
IS-162 - Hazard Mitigation Floodplain Management in Disaster Operations
IS-201 - Forms Used for the Development of the Incident Action Plan
IS-201.A - Forms used for the development of the Incident Action Plan and Incident Management
IS-203 - Fundamentals of Emergency Management