HSI October 2025 Content Update
- Creating a Work Plan To Accomplish Your Organization's Goals
- Determining Customer Needs
- Empathy in the Workplace
- Expressing Thanks and Appreciation
- First Aid: Introduction
- Flammable and Combustible Liquids Safety
- Hazard Communication
- Nailer Safety
- Preparing for an OSHA Inspection
- Propane Gas Safety
- Safety Leadership at Every Level
- Team Building
- 531-01 - Combustion Theory
- 402-02 - Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws Involving AC Circuits
- 588-03 - Battery Performance and Degradation
- 588-04 - BESS Grid Integration and Hybrid Energy Systems
See course details below.
-1.png?width=299&height=299&name=course_content_mockup%20(13)-1.png)
Professional Skills Development
Creating a Work Plan To Accomplish Your Organization's Goals
Every successful organization needs clear work plans to keep projects aligned with big-picture goals. In this course, you’ll learn how to turn strategic objectives into actionable steps with goals, tasks, resources, and timelines. By the end, you’ll be prepared to launch, monitor, and adapt work plans that keep your team accountable and productive.

Determining Customer Needs
Every sale starts with a question: What does the customer truly need? That answer should shape everything that follows – from how you frame your offer to whether you make one at all. Sales professionals know the rule: don’t proceed without a need. This course helps you develop the research habits, listening skills, and strategic mindset that turn information into insight and insight into action.

Empathy in the Workplace
Mastering empathy – the ability to recognize and share the feelings of others – can transform workplace relationships, strengthen teams, and improve organizational culture. This course guides you through the three levels of empathy: cognitive, emotional, and compassionate, helping you understand when and how to respond empathetically.

Expressing Thanks and Appreciation
When recognition is missing, people can feel invisible and unmotivated, leading to weaker relationships and less collaboration. Expressing thanks in specific, timely, and meaningful ways creates stronger bonds and encourages cooperation. You will learn how to make others feel valued in a way that motivates them and reinforces positive team culture.

First Aid: Introduction
Emergencies can happen anytime, and knowing how to respond quickly can make a lifesaving difference. This course introduces the essential principles of first aid, from recognizing medical emergencies to applying safe and effective response steps. By mastering these skills, you’ll build confidence in protecting yourself and supporting others until professional help arrives.

Flammable and Combustible Liquids Safety
Flammable and combustible liquids are widely used in many workplaces, but they present serious hazards if not managed properly. This course provides practical guidance on safe storage, handling, and transfer procedures, including OSHA-compliant requirements to prevent accidents. Learners will also explore emergency response actions to handle spills and fires effectively, protecting themselves, their coworkers, and the work environment.

Hazard Communication
Hazardous chemicals are found in nearly every workplace, and understanding how to manage them safely is essential. This course introduces the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom), the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), and the tools that keep workers safe. Learners will gain practical knowledge about chemical labeling, safety data sheets, and protective measures to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

Nailer Safety
Every successful organization needs clear work plans to keep projects aligned with big-picture goals. In this course, you’ll learn how to turn strategic objectives into actionable steps with goals, tasks, resources, and timelines. By the end, you’ll be prepared to launch, monitor, and adapt work plans that keep your team accountable and productive.

Preparing for an OSHA Inspection
A surprise OSHA inspection can be stressful but knowing what to expect can help your organization stay calm and compliant. This course explains the reasons inspections occur, the steps of the inspection process, and how to prepare your employees and records. Learners will gain strategies for organizing safety documentation, delegating inspection responsibilities, and protecting employee rights during an inspection.

Propane Gas Safety
Propane powers forklifts, heaters, and tools across many workplaces—and knowing its risks and controls essential. In this course, you’ll learn how propane (also called liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG) behaves, what OSHA and DOT require, and how to handle, dispense, and store cylinders safely. You will also walk through inspections, markings, and emergency responses so your team can prevent incidents and act quickly if a leak occurs.

Safety Leadership at Every Level
When it comes to safety, leadership is not limited to job titles or formal authority. It’s about creating a culture where everyone takes responsibility for safety. In this course, you’ll explore how to model safe behaviors, encourage open communication, and empower others to act when risks arise. By practicing these behaviors, you’ll help foster a workplace where safety is embraced as a shared value that drives both well-being and performance.

Team Building
Almost all of us work or play or serve on teams in some capacity, so this topic is an important one. A team is a group of people who are mutually dependent on one another to achieve a common goal. A team recognizes and leverages the different talents and experiences each individual brings to the table, and uses that to achieve their shared goal. We're going to spend some time talking about the characteristics that make a great team, how to develop a successful team, and then how to lead them.
COURSES:
Team Building: Foundations for Building an Effective Team
Team Building: Team Development and the Tuckman Model
Team Building: Characteristics of a Successful Team

Industrial Skills
531-01 - Combustion Theory
Energy is stored in fuel. That energy is released when the fuel is burned. Knowing basic combustion theory is necessary to understand how fuel is safely and efficiently used to generate electricity. The Combustion Theory training course explains the different types of fossil fuels used in an industrial setting and describes their characteristics. It also covers the elements and conditions that must be present for fuel combustion to happen. This course examines fossil fuels, fossil fuel characteristics, basic combustion process, combustion types, and the three T's of combustion. Combustion Theory is part of the Hydrocarbon Fired Boilers training series.

402-02 - Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws Involving AC Circuits
Understanding Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Laws is important when determining unknown values in AC electrical circuits. The Ohm's and Kirchhoff's Laws Involving AC Circuits training course introduces these laws and provides examples of their use in determining values in resistive AC circuits. This online course describes Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws as they relate to AC circuits. It also demonstrates how to calculate power in a resistive circuit. This course is part of the Alternating Current (AC) training series.

588-03 - Battery Performance and Degradation
Battery degradation is a critical issue for today’s energy storage systems, influencing both performance and long-term costs. In this course, learners examine the causes of battery wear and how operational and environmental factors affect service life. Practical methods such as data interpretation, system monitoring, and corrective action planning are used to reinforce knowledge and promote real-world application. This training is best suited for engineers, technicians, analysts, and managers responsible for maintaining and optimizing BESS assets in industrial and utility-scale environments.

588-04 - BESS Grid Integration and Hybrid Energy Systems
Grid integration of BESS is critical for balancing renewable energy and ensuring reliable electricity delivery. In this course, learners explore challenges such as bidirectional power flow, dispatch complexities, and hybrid system optimization. Real-world practices like performance monitoring, predictive control, and compliance with industry standards are applied to reinforce understanding. This training is most relevant for engineers, technicians, and analysts working to optimize BESS assets in utility-scale, industrial, or microgrid settings.

Upcoming Course Retirements
HSI regularly evaluates courses in our library to ensure your learners are receiving the most current, accurate, and engaging training experience.
We create new, or update courses on a regular basis. As part of our process, we retire courses and typically replace them with a corresponding new, updated or alternative course.
These courses listed in the document linked below are being retired on the dates listed in the document.
For additional questions, contact HSI support or your Customer Success Manager.