 | Description: | This course meets NFPA 472, Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents (2008 edition). It will examine the tasks that are within the realm of the hazardous materials operations responder. The first module will include an overview of hazardous materials, using the recognition and identification clues in risk assessment, basic monitoring, decontamination, estimating the likely harm and risks, and determining the options of intervention and nonintervention. The second module will be hands-on and cover diking and damming, diversion, applying foam, and performing emergency decontaminations. |