As almost everyone has felt the financial squeeze at some point during their career and we seem to be feeling it more and more these days. As auditors that travel the world, we are still seeing the negative ripple effects of the 2009/2010 recession in the United States in 2017 and probably will continue to see them in 2018 in the EHS arena. The effect I want to talk about in this article is the change from in-house emergency response training to using off-site/open enrollment type courses to meet the facility’s emergency response training needs. This is NOT about bashing these off-site training organizations, as most of them provide a world-class level of training, but there is ONE HUGE FLAW in using them to meet all of our ER training needs…