For technicians who already hold a BAT qualification
Add an instrument to your BAT qualification
Your employer changed devices, or you’re covering a second site on a different machine. Under Part 40, BAT qualification is device-specific: you need instrument-specific training and a monitored proficiency demonstration on each evidential breath tester you use. You do notneed to repeat the full BAT course — you submit your BAT certificate number or evidence of completing the BAT course within the last five years, and enroll once per instrument you’re adding.
49 CFR §40.213(b)
What you get
- The instrument module for your device — controls and indicators, operating modes, calibration checks and their tolerance under the Quality Assurance Plan, running a test end to end, and the error conditions that pull the instrument from service.
- A written exam on that instrument.
- Five monitored proficiency mockson the actual device, error-free and observed live — CMI’s instrument-only performance check: automatic sampling, manual sampling, an accuracy check, a full screening test, and a calibration.
- A Foster certificatenaming that exact device, issued by your monitor of record under §40.213(c). For the Intoxilyzer 800 or AlcoBlow it is a certificate of completion that states the device is not an EBT.
Instruments available
Evidential breath testers (EBTs)
Non-evidential screening devices (not EBTs)
The Intoxilyzer 800 and AlcoBlow are not evidential breath testers and are not approved for any DOT Part 40 test. Their practicum is device-operation training with five monitored practical exercises and a Foster certificate of completion. It does not add the device to your BAT qualification, and neither device can be the instrument for a BAT Technician, Trainer, or Refresher course.
Not yet a qualified BAT?
This practicum can’t qualify you on its own. Start with the BAT Technician course, which includes your device module at no extra charge.
Verify your BAT qualification first
Refresher courses and the Device Practicum renew or extend a BAT qualification you already hold — they don’t qualify you on their own. We verify your existing certificate before you enroll. Your BAT course must have been completed within the last five years; older than that, the refresher is the right product.
Once your BAT is verified, enroll below — $290, and pick the instrument you’re adding.
Enroll online
Pick your course, then check out. You’ll set a password and start immediately.
Select an instrument.
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