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Shon Christensen
Fire Safety & Medical Training Instructor/ Hazardous Materials & NIMS Incident Command Instructor
Prepare | Train | Respond
“Professionals Inspire Confidence”
Code 3 Safety & Training provides the highest quality OSHA safety training at your location with experienced safety professionals. Our on-site safety training and consultation instills confidence in your employees, provides effective internal emergency incident response, reduces injury and time loss incidents, and increases workplace productivity.
It is our mission to provide a fun and relaxed learning environment while teaching important practical and critical skills that can be used to help those in need during an emergency. We strive to provide our students with the confidence to perform these critical life-saving skills by teaching in a manner that invites questions and encourages hands-on experience. Our instructors are friendly and professional and provide the highest quality teaching curriculum and methods. Courses are priced competitively for the purpose of encouraging greater access to this information within our community. Lastly, Code 3 Safety & Training is passionate about public service and doing the right thing, so we give a portion of all class proceeds to medical charity. We look forward to serving you soon.
Derek Stabell
Owner and Instructor, (Retired Firefighter-Lieutenant-EMT)
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Shon Christensen
Fire Safety & Medical Training Instructor/ Hazardous Materials & NIMS Incident Command Instructor
Code 3 Safety & Training has donated over $20,000 to the Emanuel Hospital Burn Center since its inception. Our team has decided to diversify our donations and as of 2024, we now give to Medical Teams International. It is our way of giving back to the local communities we serve.
To learn more about the Emanuel Hospital’s Burn Center’s mission, go to: www.legacyhealth.org.
To learn more about Medical Teams International, go to: Medical Teams International | Faith-Based International Medical Relief.
Dear Mr. Stabell,
“On behalf of Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, thank you for your generous financial support of our mission. Your cumulative lifetime contribution merits special recognition on our donor wall, a public and formal listing of our foundations’ most generous donors.”
Name: Code 3 Safety & Training LLC
Giving level: $10,000 – $24,999
Veteran and Service member-owned Business
Registered with Washington Department of Veterans Affairs
Safety Consulting / Fire Safety & Medical Training Instructor
I am enthusiastic about passing on life-saving knowledge and skills I have gained from answering numerous fire and medical emergency calls. I realize the importance of knowing CPR, first aid, and fire safety and hope to better prepare all who attend our classes by providing real hands-on experience. Great quality instruction using the best training materials results in a better-prepared public, increasing patient survival and decreasing injury and loss of life from fire.
Safety Consulting / Hazardous Materials Instructor
Steve started out in the fire service in 1991 and worked hard through all the ranks up to the Fire Chief position. Steve will be the first to tell you that running calls, training, and mentoring the younger generation is what makes the fire service fun and rewarding.
In 2002, Steve got the itch to learn more about Hazardous Materials. He dedicated the rest of his career to learning about hazardous materials, responding to hazmat releases, and keeping others safe from chemical responses. Steve has witnessed many close calls in his career, heard about numerous, and has also seen the devasting effects on others due to them getting injured while dealing with chemicals.
Steve has responded as a firefighter, hazmat contractor, and an industry professional to all levels of hazmat responses. Steve has a vast knowledge of different chemical types and response plans but will be the first to tell you this; “if you ever meet a hazmat expert, RUN the other way”. There are NO experts in Hazmat.
Steve also has an extensive safety background and has been involved in Health and Safety for nearly 20 years. Respiratory protection, emergency response, fire response, medical response, and Incident Command is what he specializes in. You will find Steve’s classes realistic, practical, energetic, and fun and at the end of the course you will walk away with the tools needed to keep you and your crews safe from injuries or death.
Safety Consulting / Hazardous Materials & NIMS Incident Command Instructor
Grant served in the Fire Service for Portland Fire & Rescue, from 1975 through 2012 and filled positions including Training Captain, Chief Safety Officer, Strategic Planning BC, liaison to both Portland Police and the Portland Airport Fire Department, and Chief of the State Hazardous Materials Response Team. Grant was also one of the first Fire Chiefs to become certified as a Radiation Specialist.
His undergrad education was in biochemistry at Lewis and Clark College and that served him well in his 40 years of teaching in the Fire Science department of Portland Community College. During his 10 years leading the busiest State Hazmat Team in Oregon, Grant has not only managed hundreds of various complicated and dangerous chemical incidents but has taught his wealth of knowledge to thousands of first responders in this country and all over the globe. He also has traveled the country as an adjunct instructor with FEMA in such subjects as NIMS ICS, Incident Safety Officer, and Structural Collapse Incidents.
As a consultant and product ambassador for Teledyne FLIR in Wilsonville, Oregon, Grant designed their FLIR PRIMED hazmat and emergency management online education series (his over 30 episodes can be seen on YouTube) and led “tool talk” sessions at conferences around the USA.
Grant is well known not only for his expertise and experience but for his style of “drilling down” to the essence of this issue through the use of stories, videos, and demos. He focuses on the art and science of situational awareness and team crisis decision-making. His classes are engaging, interesting, relevant, and interactive – a real learning experience.
Fire Safety & Medical Training Instructor/ Hazardous Materials & NIMS Incident Command Instructor
As a Firefighter, Fire Officer, Hazmat Technician, Hazmat Coordinator with more than 26 years of experience responding to, planning, developing, and implementing fire and Hazmat response and training. I have 18 years working as a Hazmat technician within the Oregon OSFM RHMERT program. The Oregon OSFM RHMERT program is an all-Hazmat hazards trained response resource. I train all levels of Hazmat response and am certified in the following Hazmat specialties, Rail car specialist, Hazmat safety officer, Highway/transportation response specialist, Radiation response specialist and Radiation Safety officer. I also have more than 22 years of experience Instructing at the local, State and Federal level programs. 18 years of experience working with local, Rail, State, and Federal response agencies.
Since May of 2018 I have also worked as a Portland Police Rapid Response team medic responding to crowd management incidents around the City of Portland.
September of 2020 I served as Portland Fire and Rescue’s assistant vaccination coordinator within PF&R’s Community Health Division establishing and staffing vaccination clinics all over the City. In 2022 I worked as a Community Health EMT responder and Supervisor till my retirement in December of 2023.
I was Hired by FEMA as a Hazmat instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston Alabama in December 2019. Teaching responders from all over the country.
I served 21 years with the US Army, Oregon National Guard, and Army Reserves as an Infantryman, Helicopter mechanic, and Combat engineer. Serving in Germany and the Western United States. Retiring in December of 2005.
Emergency Response Consultant and Trainer
Nina joined our team in 2024 after working for 12 years as a safety professional in multiple industries including semiconductor, aeronautics, automotive and nuclear research.
She has always been passionate about safety and has completed 7 years of Environment Health and Safety specialized education, her highest diploma being a master’s degree in Quality, Environment, Health and Safety Management.
Nina took a special interest in Hazmat response while leading the Emergency Response Team for a local semiconductor manufacturing company, where she was involved in multiple incident response, as well as corrective actions implementation. Her education and experience provides her with extensive knowledge of all regulatory requirements and best practices necessary to help our customers be compliant and go above and beyond.
She chose to join our team so that she could help more companies achieve their emergency preparedness and response program goals.
Nina is genuine and will always do her best to help others succeed. “There is no such thing as a stupid question”.
When she is not working, Nina likes to compete in mini moto racing and visit her family in France, where she is from.