This textbook, now validated by IFSTA, is designed to meet the core competencies for Hazardous Materials Technician and Haz Mat On-Scene Incident Commander as outlined in OSHA 1910.120, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, and the educational competencies referenced in NFPA 472, Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials.

The Student Workbook includes several hundred different questions with answer key, to guide the student through all 12 chapters of the textbook. Questions are coded to help the student meet the requirements of NFPA 472. The workbook also outlines a study strategy to prepare for promotion and college-level examinations.

The Field Operations Guide (FOG) is designed for use at the incident scene as a reference guide to strategic and tactical decision-making. The FOG includes detailed tactical checklists that follow the Eight Step Process©, a section on identification and recognition of containers, data cards on the top 50 hazardous materials and CBRNE's, as well as a matrix of WMD and drug lab precursor chemicals.

The process for managing hazardous materials incidents is a dynamic one. It requires the responder to learn the correct approach towards incident stabilization and thus mitigation. As one works through the eight step process you will find that the incident you are managing is an incident which takes necessary organization and process structure. It was this process that created the tactical worksheet for managing the incident. It is a combination quick reference to the FOG while at the same time an incident management tool.

The Instructor Program on CD-ROM is designed for use at the training academy or academic levels. It includes complete learning objectives, an outline of each chapter, learning strategies, and The Learning Through Inquiry Method of presenting case studies and scenarios.

This four-color text details safe operating procedures, addresses levels of awareness, and explains hazard and risk evaluation and response implementation for handling electrical and natural gas emergencies. It is packaged with a companion CD-ROM containing the electronic book with full text search capabilities, hotlinks to case studies and important Web sites and exercises. This text is absolutely necessary reading for all firefighters (Firefighters 1 and 2).

The Instructor CD-ROM brings an important dimension to fire service training. It includes a multilevel training system using the following instructional methods:

• Facilitator guide/lesson plans for each chapter.
• PowerPoint Presentations for each chapter.
• A Student Note Taking Guide for each chapter.
• Exercises that can be completed individually or as a classroom activity.
• Quizzes for each chapter.
• Interactive exercises that ask students to use what they have learned.
• A fast-paced quiz called the "lightning round." This is a timed event that puts pressure on the student to reinforce chapter lessons.
• A game that teaches the lesson taught in the textbook.

Presents a common sense approach to handling dangerous chemicals and is the application of response principles learned and developed from countless case histories. Street Smarts delivers practical, experienced-based training for the responder to successfully handle hazardous materials emergencies.

The Street Smart Haz Mat Response Instructor Program brings an important dimension to fire service training. This program is a holistic approach to training. To learn you must attack many levels. Reading, discussions, exercises, classroom exams, and even games and fun all lead to a more effective lesson. The Street Smart Instructor Program incorporates a multi-level training system using a number of instructional methods including:

• Instructor guide/lesson plans for each chapter
• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
• Student note taking guide for each chapter
• Exercises that can be completed individually or as a classroom activity
• Quizzes for each chapter
• Interactive scenarios that asks students to use what they have learned in the chapter
• A fast-paced quiz called the "lightning round." This is a timed event that puts pressure on the student to reinforce a chapter’s lessons.
• Haz Mat Hot Seat—a "Jeopardy"-like game that teaches the lessons taught in the textbook
• Clip Art—Current DOT placards and labels

The first training manual on the entire scope of railroad emergencies addressing hazards, safe operating procedures, and resources responders can apply to incidents involving rail operations. Text reviews tank cars, top products transported by railroads, information on locomotives, basics of rail operations and pre-emergency planning for working with rail carriers. The book is packaged with a companion CD containing an electronic book and hotlinks to case studies and important Web sites.

A multi-level training system on CD using the following instructional methods:

• Instructor guide/lesson plans for each chapter
• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
• Exercises that can be completed individually or as a classroom activity
• Instructor resources including accident reports

This set of most commonly encountered chemical cards is designed for the first responder to access information in a quick and concise manner, giving the response agency a platform which can assist scene decision making while at the same time enhance preplanning activities. It is a system for planning, practice, response and recovery at an intentional or accidental hazardous materials event.

Each Chemical has its own two-sided card printed on waterproof, tearproof paper with easy reference during preplanning and the emergency operation. Its format enables the responder to gather information as it pertains to his/her level of training.

Set of 4 Cards, (double sided)
Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Explosive Response

The RBR Series is geared toward how we train and respond to events that involve Hazardous Materials / Weapons of Mass Destruction. Risk Based Response (RBR) is a series of job-aides, booklets, and interactive presentations, which incorporate the best practices of the emergency response community and proven science into a systemic thought process.

Durable, Tear and Waterproof Field Guide

First Responder Critical Incident Guide identifies key functions that are essential for first responders (Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, Special Teams, Military, etc.) during the first 10–30 minutes of a “critical incident”. It addresses recognition, identification and response issues that first responders must deal with prior to the arrival of those with specialized training and equipment.

Critical Incident Guide (323065) is extremely durable for field use. It is printed on synthetic paper that is tearproof and waterproof and has large readable type for low light and flashlight conditions.

Paper printed version

First Responder Critical Incident Guide identifies key functions that are essential for first responders (Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, Special Teams, Military, etc.) during the first 10–30 minutes of a “critical incident”. It addresses recognition, identification and response issues that first responders must deal with prior to the arrival of those with specialized training and equipment.

The Emergency Responder's Guide to Terrorism is a dynamic, engaging, and highly detailed presentation on the many dangers associated with a terrorist attack. Drawing extensively from both military and civilian sources, this Awareness-Level program provides emergency response personnel with an extremely visual look at the means, motives, and strategies that underlie today's terrorist threat.

The Emergency Responder's Guide to Terrorism Instructor Program incorporates a multi-level training system using the following instructional methods delivered on a cross platform CD-ROM packaged in a DVD case:

• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
• Complete digital book with animation and integrated links to PowerPoint files
• Tests that can be completed individually or as a classroom activity
• Terrorism Weblinks, a comprehensive database of State and Federal resources, as well as escalation trees, to assist local responders in securing proper assistance for incidents of terrorism. Contains extensive contact information including telephone numbers, faxes, email addresses and more.
• An indispensible field resource.

Emergency Response agencies are increasingly responding to violent crimes, threats of terrorism as well as clandestine drug labs, explosives events, and crimes involving chemicals. Tactical operations at these events can expose responders to a wide range of hazards such as heavily armed criminals, booby traps, secondary devices, and a multitude of chemical and explosive hazards. The response to terrorism or a crime involving hazardous materials is a multi-agency response. This new text is designed for fire departments and law enforcement personnel who are trained to the Hazardous Materials Operations Level.

This publication is designed to provide both public safety and industry emergency response personnel with background information, general procedures and response guidelines to be followedwhen responding to and operating at incidents involving MC-306/DOT 406 cargo tank trucks. It provides container specific information to complement the incident management guidelines from the textbook, Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident (3rd edition).

This publication provides emergency response personnel with background information, procedures, and guidelines for handling aboveground and underground storage tank emergencies. It is designed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for emergency response personnel to safely and effectively manage a storage tank emergency. It is based upon nationally recognized engineering practices and safe operating practices, and training programs.

This text is designed to provide emergency response personnel with background information, general procedures and response guidelines to be followed when operating at incidents involving intermodal containers. It provides container specific information to complement the incident management guidelines from the textbook, Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident (3rd edition). Specific topics include design and construction features, normal handling and operational concerns, and emergency response issues specific to each mode of transportation. The primary target audience includes Hazardous Materials Technicians, Specialist Employees, and the On-Scene Incident Commander.

This manual with accompanying CD-ROM is designed to provide information that established fire and explosion investigators need to perform their duties safely when hazardous substances may be present at fire and explosion scenes. The safety and health of investigators working at fire and explosion scenes where hazardous substances are involved can be threatened by a variety of physical, chemical, and toxicological hazards. Fire investigators have a duty to themselves and others who may be endangered at fire scenes to recognize potential hazards and exercise caution while conducting origin and cause investigations. This book will help individuals to understand and show "reasonable diligence" regarding OSHA regulations.

This series includes eight videos or DVDs. Operations Level, Technician Level & Command Level training for hazardous materials incidents, as required by OSHA's Hazwoper law and NFPA 472. Based in the highly-regarded manual, Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, this series is a valuable resource for fire fighters, hazmat teams, bomb squads, industrial emergency response teams and other emergency responders who may deal with unplanned hazardous materials leaks, spills or fire during the course of their work. Narrated by Mike Hildebrand and Greg Noll, authors, this series illustrates the ideas behind the eight-step process in a series of videos intended to accompany their book.

1. Site Management & Control

2. Identifying the Problem

3. Hazard and Risk Evaluation

4. Protective Clothing and Equipment

5. Information Management & Resource
Coordination

6. Implementing Response Objectives

7. Decontamination

8. Terminating the Incident

Step 1: Site Management and Control

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

Preplanning to set up a systematic, coordinated approach to a hazmat
accident.

• Procedures for establishing command

• Guidelines for safe approach and positioning at a hazmat incident

• Establishing the perimeter and hazard control zones

• Procedures for carrying out protective actions

• The importance of setting up effective command is stressed. 18 minutes.

Step 2: Identifying the Problem

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

Recognizing the presence of hazardous materials at the incident scene

Identifying the material or general class of hazmat involved

Design and construction of hazmat containers

DOT hazard classes

Placarding

NFPA 704. 18 minutes.

Step 3: Hazard and Risk Evaluation

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

How to evaluate risks

Determining response objectives

Sources for hazard information

Air monitoring

Risk factors

The importance of maintaining an attitude of safety

How hazardous materials behave

Container failure. 25 minutes

Step 4: Protective Clothing and Equipment

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

Protective Clothing and Equipment

The difference between structural firefighting clothing and chemical protective clothing

Respiratory protection, including self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and SAR (supplied air respirators)

NFPA standards for protective clothing

EPA levels of protection

Degradation, penetration and permeation. 22 minutes

Step 5: Information Management and Resource Coordination

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

The types of information needed to manage a hazmat incident safely

How to evaluate that information

How to coordinate multiple resource groups at a hazmat incident

The importance of controlling the flow of information

The importance of having effective leadership is

The Incident Management System

Storage and recovery of information

Step 6: Implementing Response Objectives

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

How the incident commander implements the best available strategic goals and tactical objectives to produce the most favorable outcome to the incident.

The difference between tactics and strategies

Rescue

Protective actions

Spill and leak control

Fire control

Transfer

Recovery

Decision-making

Offensive vs. defensive mode

Step 7: Decontamination

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

How contamination occurs

Decontamination of persons and equipment after leaving the hot zone

Covers all current methods of decontamination, including dilution, absorption, adsorption, heating, freezing, blowing, vacuuming, degradation, neutralization, solidification, disinfection, and sterilization

Setting up the decon site

Responsibilities of the decon officer and the decon team

Emergency decon

Multiple station decon

Medical emergencies

Evaluating the effectiveness of decon operations
Clean-up

Step 8: Terminating the Incident

Part of the Hazardous Materials: Management series.
Available separately or as a part of the series.

Documenting the incident

The post-incident analysis

How to conduct a debriefing

How to critique the response

Focusing on lessons learned