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1. Site Control American ERT Hazardous Materials Training

2. Objectives • To be able to develop strategies and tactics on hazardous materials incidents • To understand risk/benefit analysis • To be able to properly control a hazardous materials scene Site Control

3. GEDAPER • Gather info (Product, Environment, Container) • Estimate course and harm • Determine strategic goals • Assess tactical options and resources • Plan implementation • Evaluate response • Review Site Control

4. DECIDE • Detect Hazardous Material • Size up • “What do I have?” • Estimate Course and Harm • “Where is it going?” • Choose Objectives • “Where do I want it to go?” • Identify tactical options • “What tools do I have?” • Do the best option • Evaluate the results Site Control

5. Detect • Product – MSDS, shipping papers, eye witnesses, experts, preplan, container, markings, placards, research books/programs • Environment – Where could the product go, weather forecast • Container – Binoculars, ERG, 49 CFR, damage assessment Site Control

6. Estimate course and harm • Where is this going if I don’t intervene? • What if I do? • Risk/Hazard Assessment (what’s the trade off?) Site Control

7. Snakes! Why’d it have to be Snakes? Site Control

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10. Sizing Up the Scene • Product, container, environment • Hazards • Thermal • Radiation • Asphyxiation • Chemical • Etiological • Mechanical • Risks • Results from our actions (turning valves, applying water, mixing chemicals) Site Control

11. Choose Objectives • Follows the 3 incident priorities • Life Safety • Incident stabilization • Property conservation • Objectives may include: • Rescue • Vapor control • Spill control • Fire control • Recon • Shut valve • Work in operational phases • Have regular briefings Site Control

12. Identify tactical options • What do I need vs. What do I have? • Do I have the necessary lead time? Site Control

13. Do best option Go Do It!! Site Control

14. Before we go… • Decon must be set up before entry • Medical monitoring must be complete • Right-to-know information • Same way an employee has the right to know about chemical they are using • They have a right to know about what chemical they are responding to • Signs/symptoms, target organs, emergency actions, PPE Site Control

15. Evaluate Are things going as planned? Site Control

16. Evaluate Start the entire process over? Do I have a plan B (back up plan)? Is it time for plan B? Site Control

17. Initial isolation distance COLD HOT Warm/Decon Access control point Site control Wind Command, Support, EMS, Staging Site Control

18. Chlorine release (wind from the south) Site Control

19. Chlorine release considering all wind directions Site Control

20. Protecting the Public • A Hazmat team’s number one goal is to protect the public. • Two ways of this are: • Evacuation • Best for long duration events • Shelter-in-place • Best for fast moving clouds, events lasting less than an hour Site Control

21. Release that will take a long time Quick moving vapor cloud

22. OSHA Requirements • Site specific safety/health plan • Risk/hazard assessment • Required training to work on site • PPE to be used • Medical surveillance • Air monitoring • Site control measures • Decon • Emergency plan Site Control

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26. Terminating the Incident • Clean up • Account for everything used • Plan for billing and restock • Transfer to responsible party • Debrief • Document all information and actions • Debrief members to gather all information • Critique • Review good and bad aspects • Review lessons learned • Document the incident and the critique Site Control