Lynden Training Center Company Overview
In 1995, Alaska West Express established Lynden Training Center as a hazmat training facility built on the belief that students learn best through hands-on experience. Today, Lynden Training Center is a leader in emergency response and safety training. In high-stakes environments, competence is the difference between a successful operation and a preventable tragedy. At Lynden Training Center, we provide industry-leading certification delivered in immersive, scenario-based environments designed for fire departments and a variety of industries.
Our focus on safety, health, emergency management, and response procedures helps reduce work-related injuries and illnesses across organizations of all types.
Our Fairbanks training facility includes office and classroom spaces, a training tower for confined space rescue, rope rescue, hazardous materials response, terrorism response, and industrial safety training. The site also features a commercial motor vehicle driving range and an extensive collection of bulk and non-bulk shipping containers — such as a custom-designed roll-over MC306 tanker, DOT 406, DOT 407, DOT 412, DOT111A railcars, intermodal tanks, intermediate bulk tanks, and 30- and 50-gallon tanks — used as realistic training props.
We also offer mobile training solutions and can bring our instructors, equipment, and props directly to your location for onsite instruction.
Our Core Specializations
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Hazardous Materials Transportation and Shipping
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Emergency Response
Navigate hazardous materials transportation requirements with confidence. Our Hazmat training covers the safe handling, shipping, and transportation of regulated materials by ground, sea and air, helping employees understand the applicable requirements.
Prepare personnel to respond safely and effectively to high-risk incidents. Our emergency response training includes hazardous materials (HAZMAT) response, incident management, confined space entry, technical rope rescue, industrial firefighting and safety, wilderness and rural medicine, and other specialized response programs.
Strengthen workplace safety with practical workplace, industrial, and occupational safety training. Programs include confined space entry and rescue, fall protection, forklift operator training, fire extinguisher training, OSHA 10- and 30-hour courses, CPR/AED, First Aid, and other workplace safety topics.
Build safe, capable equipment operators through hands-on training focused on inspection, hazard awareness, load handling, stability, and safe operating practices. Training is available for forklifts, front-end loaders, manlifts, skid steers, box trucks, tractor trailers, and other equipment.
Our Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) training helps drivers strengthen defensive driving, vehicle control, regulatory compliance, and safe operating practices. Training addresses real-world industrial and transportation environments while reinforcing applicable regulations, company requirements, and safe driving practices.
Why Choose Lynden Training Center?
Elite Instructors
Immersive Scenarios
Mobile Training Units
Pro Board & IFSAC Standards
Our Story
Lynden has grown from a two-stop, two-truck operation in Lynden, WA to an international multi-modal logistics company serving customers around the world.
Read more about our history.
Our Culture and Values
Lynden’s mission and values guide us to support each other and the communities we serve. We exhibit this in many ways such as sponsoring local youth sports teams, donating transportation, and fostering an environment of collaboration and empowerment. Our original philosophy of putting the customer first, working hard, delivering quality, being the best, and having fun throughout still influences everything we do. Read more about our culture and values.