Hazmat WMD Awareness

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Hazmat WMD Awareness
Training to recognize the difference between a hazmat incident and other emergencies and to implement specific actions necessary when an incident is suspected to involve criminal or terrorist activity.
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Hazmat WMD Awareness Training Video
Formerly sold as First Responder Awareness. Now completely updated to address the revised NFPA 472 Standard!
Trains personnel to awareness level competencies:
  • Recognize the presence of hazardous materials
  • Protect themselves
  • Call for trained personnel
  • Secure the area
Other topics covered include:
  • How hazardous materials can harm people and the environment
  • Label and placarding systems
  • Using the Emergency Response Guidebook, MSDS and other hazard identification systems
  • The 4 categories of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the associated risks
  • Addresses both fixed facility and transportation incidents
    • The included Leader’s Guide outlines a 4-hour (or longer) training seminar, including pre- and post-seminar tests, ideas for activities, a copy of the script, and reference materials.

    This program is designed for police officers, fire fighters, security, highway workers, EMS, industrial personnel and others who could be the first on the scene of an emergency involving hazardous materials or terrorism.


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    Jerry Grey
    President of HazTech Systems, Inc., which produces the HazCat Chemical Identification Kit. Author of the text, Hazardous Materials Waste Handling for the Emergency Responder and Vice Chairman of the NFPA Technical Committee on HazMat Response Personn... more...
    Greg Noll
    Greg is a senior partner in Hildebrand Noll Associates, a consulting firm specializing in emergency planning, response and incident management issues. He serves as the Program Manager for the South Central Pennsylvania Regional Counter-Terrorism Task... more...
    Glen Rudner
    Regional Hazardous Materials Response Officer, Northern Virginia Department of Emergency Management. Glen served previously with the Alexandria(VA) Fire and EMS Department as a Hazmat Specialist. He has been a developer, co-developer, and Subject Mat... more...
    Chris Herman
    Emergency Response Specialist with BP Oil Co's Toledo, OH refinery. He is core lead instructor for BP's worldwide fire and emergency training programs and has been a fire service instructor for over 25 years. He is a member of the International Assoc... more...

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