Thermal Runaway and Battery Fire Awareness
Learn to spot a failing lithium battery before it becomes a fire.
Start Course Now →Lithium-ion batteries power more of your workplace every year, and when they fail the consequences can be sudden and severe. This beginner course helps you understand how battery failures escalate, what thermal runaway looks like, and why these incidents need a specialised response. It is for anyone who works around lithium batteries or energy storage and wants to recognise the risks with confidence.
Walk out able to actually help.
Identify the common failure modes and safety risks of lithium-ion batteries.
Read the early signals of thermal runaway and understand the risk of delayed fires.
Account for toxic smoke, environmental effects, and secondary risks during a battery fire.
Explain why battery incidents demand specialised isolation and emergency planning.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Lithium-Ion Battery Hazards
Covers the fundamentals of lithium-ion batteries and the failure modes that create safety risks.
Understanding Thermal Runaway
Explains what thermal runaway is, its warning signs, and the danger of delayed fires.
Toxic Smoke and Additional Hazards
Looks at the toxic emissions from battery fires alongside environmental and secondary risks.
Emergency Response Planning and Isolation
Explains why specialised response is needed and how to plan for battery incidents.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Four guided modules across eight lessons
- Around two hours of learning
- Real-world battery hazard scenarios
- Certificate of completion