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12/30/2025
Tier 2 Spring 2026: Food and Housing
The Office of Local and Regional Health is excited to share Tier 2 dates for both the Massachusetts Retail Food Inspection Training Program and the Massachusetts Housing Inspection Training Program for Spring 2026. As a reminder, Tier 2 is the instructor-led classroom portion of the training programs and is facilitated in a hybrid format, requiring attendance in both virtual and in-person sessions.
The Spring 2026 Tier 2 offerings are:
Housing
- May 6, from 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (In-Person - Marlborough, Mass.)
- May 19, 20, & 21, from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Virtual)
Food
- June 2, 3, & 4, from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Virtual)
- June 9 & 10, from 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (In-person - Marlborough, Mass.)
To qualify for Tier 2, you must be registered for Tier 1 on TRAIN and have completed all Tier 1 coursework by January 31, 2026. All qualified participants will be contacted by email with instructions on how to enroll in Tier 2 in February. If there are more qualified participants than seats available, a lottery system will be used to select Tier 2 seat placement. To check if you are enrolled in Tier 1 and your completion status, please use the links below:
- Tier 1: Massachusetts Housing Inspection Training Program
- Tier 1: Massachusetts Retail Food Inspection Training Program:
Please ensure your email in TRAIN MA is up to date.
- For questions or for additional support, please contact OLRHtrainingsupport@mass.gov.
- Create an account on TRAIN MA: https://www.train.org/ma/w
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For more information about our training programs, including descriptions of all the tiers, please see below:
About: Massachusetts Housing Inspection Training Program
Massachusetts Retail Food & Housing Inspection Trainings are part of the Massachusetts Local Public Health Training Collaborative that supports the local public health workforce with training and development opportunities to meet the training requirements in the workforce standards. Our training programs embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as core principles. These programs are a collaborative partnership between the OLRH, academic institutions, local public health professional organizations, the Local Public Health Training Hub Program, and other state agencies.
