FIRST 24-HOURS ONLINE:
This is a pre-recorded course that includes 74 video lessons and 13 practice sets. Students can work at their own pace on the course materials: start and stop content as you please. You will resume the course where you leave off after each session. Students can e-mail or call an instructor while taking this course during normal business hours.
This course features video instruction (not a boring set of slides) from our HAZMATEAM certified trainers. Videos include demonstrations of how to use all equipment used by spill responders.
Equipment demonstrations include:
Our trainers will demonstrate donning and doffing all levels of protection (Levels A, B, C and D), use of air-purifying respirators, self-contained breathing apparatus, air line with escape pack, decontamination methods (wet decon, semi-wet and dry), use of overpacks, salvage cylinders, 4-gas meters (oxygen, LEL, Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen sulfide), pH paper, colorometric tubes and radiation meters.
The online session addresses the following topics:
⇒ Emergency response planning.
⇒ Classification of hazardous materials (DOT Hazmat classification, OSHA GHS, NFPA)
⇒ Identification of hazardous materials
⇒ Characteristics of hazardous materials
⇒ Use of field instruments: Oxygen meters, LEL sensors, Toxic monitors, Radiation meters, pH paper, more…
⇒ How to function within the Incident Command System
⇒ Spill reporting
⇒ Principles of toxicology (LD50, PEL, TLV, STEL, IDLH)
⇒ Respiratory Protection (Respirator selection, fit tests, medical clearance, written plans, more…)
⇒ Information sources (SDS, CAMEO Chemicals, 2020 Emergency Response Guidebook, NIOSH Guide, more…)
⇒ Personnel Protective Equipment (fabric selection, Level A, B, C & D, regulatory requirements, use of specialized equipment, more…)
⇒ Hazard and Risk Assessment techniques
⇒ Advance control, containment, and/or confinement techniques
⇒ How to implement decontamination procedures (responder decon and victim decon)
⇒ Waste disposal overview
⇒ Termination procedures.
LAST 16-HOURS AT THE HAZMATEAM TRAINING CENTER:
After completing the 24-hour online portion of the course, students will complete the 40-hour curriculum at our Hudson, NH facility on the dates provided below.
Agenda:
⇒ Introduction to the hazards of site work.
⇒ Excavation and trenching overview
⇒ Fall Protection overview
⇒ Confined space entry and rescue (lecture, plus entering actual confined spaces)
⇒ OSHA Focus Four
⇒ Ladder Safety
⇒ Donn and doff respirators and suits demonstrated in the online course.
⇒ Emergency Response table-top exercises
⇒ Level B analysis of unknown samples
⇒ MORE!
Students will be awarded a 24-hr Technician level training certificate at the conclusion of the online portion of the class. At the conclusion of the entire 40-hour course, students will be awarded a 40-hr HAZWOPER Site certificate.
