Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operation

International Association of Fire Chiefs
National Fire Protection Association
Rob Schnepp

A fire fighter’s ability to recognize an incident involving hazardous materials or weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is critical. They must possess the knowledge required to identify the presence of hazardous materials and WMD, and have an understanding of what their role is within the response plan. Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations will provide fire fighters and first responders with these skills and enable them to keep themselves and others safe while mitigating these potentially deadly incidents.

Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations meets and exceeds the requirements for Fire Fighter I and II certification and satisfies the core competencies for operations level responders including the eight mission-specific responsibilities for first responders within the 2008 Edition of NFPA 472, Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents.

Additionally, the material presented also exceeds the hazardous materials response requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 

Contents:

Chapter 1: Hazardous Materials Overview

Chapter 2: Hazardous Materials: Properties and Effects

Chapter 3: Recognizing and Identifying the Hazards

Chapter 4: Estimating Potential Harm and Planning A Response

Chapter 5: Implementing the Planned Response

Chapter 6: Terrorism

Chapter 7: Mission Specific Competencies: Personal Protective Equipment

Chapter 8: Mission Specific Competencies: Technical Decontamination

Chapter 9: Mission Specific Competencies: Mass Decontamination

Chapter 10: Mission Specific Competencies: Evidence Preservation and Sampling

Chapter 11: Mission Specific Competencies: Product Control

Chapter 12: Mission Specific Competencies: Victim Rescue and Recovery

Chapter 13: Mission Specific Competencies: Response to Illicit Laboratories

Chapter 14: Mission Specific Competencies: Air Monitoring and Sampling
 

About the Authors:

International Association of Fire Chiefs

Established in 1873, the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) is a powerful, professional membership organization of more than 12,600 chief fire and emergency officers. The mission of the IAFC is to provide leadership to career and volunteer chiefs, chief fire officers, and managers of emergency service organizations throughout the international community through vision, information, education, services, and representation to enhance their professionalism and capabilities.

Members of the IAFC are the world’s leading experts in fire fighting, emergency medical services, terrorism response, hazardous materials spills, natural disasters, search and rescue, and public safety legislation.

National Fire Protection Association

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been a worldwide leader in providing fire, building, electrical, and life safety to the public since 1896. The mission of the international nonprofit organization is to reduce the worldwide burden for fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically-based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.

Developer of the National Electrical Code®, and 300 other codes and standards through a full, open-consensus process, NFPA also produces educational curricula, including the Risk Watch® community-based injury prevention curriculum and the Learn Not to Burn® fire safety curriculum. NFPA headquarters is in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Rob Schnepp

Rob Schnepp has over 20 years of fire service experience, currently serving as the Assistant Chief of Special Operations for the Alameda County (CA) Fire Department. He is an instructor for the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, providing hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction training internationally.

Mr. Schnepp is a current member of the NFPA 472 Technical Committee on Hazardous Materials Response Personnel, and is a former hazardous materials team manager for California Task Force 4, FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team.

With a variety of published works covering several fire service topics, including numerous articles in Fire Engineering Magazine, Mr. Schnepp is also an established author. He is a member of the Fire Engineering editorial advisory board and sits on the executive advisory board for the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC).

432 pages
Copyright 2010

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