Hazardous material incident responders

Outside support services (for example, medical surveillance laboratory analyses training consultants emergency response to incidents, injuries, fires, and hazardous materials incident responders or experts as required by site activities). 

Suggested training for hazardous material incident responders... 

Initial detection and identification of the nature of materials used in a deliberate release situation are much more difficult than at the scene of a "normal" hazardous materials incident. Responders to a "normal" incident can usually uncover some form of posted warning (e.g., 704M diamond, transportation placards) or documentation (e.g., manifests, MSDSs) on the material. At a deliberate release, however, it is highly unlikely that there will be any precautionary information upon which responders can base their actions. 

The goal at the first responder awareness level is to provide those persons, who in the course of their normeil duties may be the first on the scene of a hazardous materials incident with the following competencies to help them act in a safe manner when confronted with a hazardous materials incident... 

The goal of the hazardous materials technician level is to provide the responders with the following competencies to respond safely to hazardous materials incidents ... 

An incident information management tool for hazardous materials emergency responders. 

Campasano is an experienced responder to hazardous materials incidents who tells it like it is. The subject of his address was Safe Mail Handling, Hazardous Material Removal. ... 

After Action Report A post-incident analysis report gathered by a responsible party or responding agency after termination of a hazardous materials incident, describing actions taken, materials involved, impacts and similar information. 

CHEMTREC The Chemical Transportation Emergency Center located in Washington, D.C., a public service provided by the private Chemical Manufacturers Association, provides emergency response information and assistance twenty-four hours a day for responders to hazardous materials incidents. 

Level One Incident Hazardous materials incidents which can be contained, extinguished, and/or abated using equipment, supplies, and resources immediately available to first responders having jurisdiction, and whose qualifications are limited to and do not exceed the scope of the training explained in 29 CFR 1910. 

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) A voluntary membership agency to promote fire safety and allied considerations. NFPA publishes standards of interest to hazardous materials responders such as, NFPA-471 Recommended Practice for Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents, NFPA-472 Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents, and NFPA-473, Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents. 

Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents - NFPA 473. Quincy, MA. National Fire Protection Associations, 1992. 

The handbook provides ready information on the fire and chemical reactivity of commonly used chemicals. Its purpose is to provide basic information important to the safe handling of chemicals and to help provide guidance in responding to a hazardous materials incident, in particular, incidents involving reactive chemicals and materials posing fire and explosion hazards. The data and information on each chemical have been compiled from several sources, including the CHRIS data base, material safety data sheets from chemical manufacturers and suppliers, and various references cited at the end of this first chapter. This first chapter provides an explanation of the terms used in chemical specific discussions and also provides basic guidance on how to extract information from the handbook. 

From a commercial standpoint, there is a large body of hydrocarbons that is very important and hence these are of relevance to first responders to a hazardous-materials incidents. These hydrocarbons are different in that they are not straight-chain hydrocarbons but have a structural formula that can only be called cyclical. The most common and most important hydrocarbon in this group is benzene. It is the first and simplest of the six-carbon cyclical hydrocarbons referred to as aromatic hydrocarbons. 

First Responder A trained hazard materials specialist who is first to arrive at a hazard materials incident such as a spill. 

NFPA 471. 1989 Ed. Recommended Practice for Responding to Hazardous Material Incidents. Appendix A-6-4.1.9. Quincy, Massachusetts National Fire Protection Association. 

Tmergency Response Guidebook, U.S. Dept, of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Guidebook for first responders during initial phase of hazardous materials incident (multilingual ed. scheduled 1996 publication). 

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