From the homepage to a verified certificate.
How to find the free NICET Level I Water-Based course, work through a lesson, check your answers, sit the full timed practice exam and get a certificate an employer can verify with their phone. Click through the real screens below, or press Watch it run and turn narration on.
Go to lifesafetywiki.com and click Training in the top menu.
Real screenshots of the site. The certificate and verification screens use a fictional member, Jordan Example. Keyboard: → next · ← back.
What you get
Everything on the NICET ITWBS Level I outline: safety, reading NFPA 25, system types, valves, gauges and alarms, the visual inspection, water supplies, documentation, operating components and impairments.
A full timed exam on the four official domains, scored by topic area so you know what to study next. Practice mode gives 25 questions at a time.
Printable certificate of completion with the estimated course length. The QR opens a verification page that shows your name and what the course covered — nothing else about you.
The steps, in writing
- 1Training
Open the course
Top menu: Training. On the NICET Water-Based card, click Take the full slide course — free. Module 0 is open to everyone; sign in (free) for the rest and to save your progress.
TrainingTake the full slide course — free - 2Lessons
Work through the lessons
Each lesson is a short set of slides. Read them, or play the narration and let the slides follow along. Lessons end with a quick check; your place is saved when you are signed in.
Next← → keys - 3Your book
Learn where the answers are
The exam is open book: NFPA 25 (2023) and OSHA 29 CFR 1910. Every citation card tells you the section and how to find it, so you practise the lookups the exam really tests.
Read the full text → - 4Study
Sit the full practice exam
From the capstone or the Training page, open the NICET Water-Based practice exam and choose Full Exam. 115 questions, 125 minutes, scored by domain.
Practice ModeFull Exam - 5Certificate
Print your certificate
When every lesson is marked complete, the course page links your certificate. Print it or save it as a PDF; the QR code on it opens the verification page.
Print or save as PDF
Good to know
Press play on a lesson’s narration and the slides advance with it. Switch narrator voice any time; it carries on from the same spot.
A lesson is marked complete when you press Mark lesson complete or the narration plays to the end. You can unmark a lesson to study it again.
Your supervisor has to confirm 11 performance measures for NICET. Download the briefing from the course page and hand it to them first.
The course, the practice exam and the certificate cost nothing. NICET’s own exam fee is $235.
Questions
Is this the official NICET course?
No. It is an independent, free course that follows NICET’s published ITWBS Level I content outline. LifeSafetyWiki is not affiliated with NICET.
Which NICET exam does it prepare for?
Inspection & Testing of Water-Based Systems (ITWBS) Level I — not Water-Based Systems Layout, which is a different exam for designers.
Does the certificate count as CEUs?
No. It records course completion. NICET counts one CPD point per hour of training when no CEUs are issued and does not pre-approve providers, so keep the certificate with your CPD records and check with NICET.
What does an employer see when they scan the QR?
Your name as printed on the certificate, the completion date, what the course covers, how long it is, and your practice-exam results for this credential. No contact details, job title or other personal information.
Stuck on a question? Ask Clara. Every quick check and practice question has a “Let Clara explain this” button, and Clara can point you to the NFPA 25 section.