Batt Chief, retired Lafayette Fire Department Lafayette, Indiana, United States
This 8-hour course will help prepare hazardous materials officers and experienced technicians to serve as the HazMat Group Supervisor or Branch Director at a HazMat incident.
The HazMat Officer Strategy and Tactics course focuses on working with the incident commander and supporting agencies to develop quick, "street level" incident action plans (IAP) for small to large HazMat incidents. Participants will learn a simple, repeatable, process for IAP development and documentation that is easy to implement and is consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and NFPA 470 APIET (analyze, plan, implement, evaluate, and terminate) process.
Students will participate in multiple HazMat incident tabletop simulations with artificial intelligence (AI) role players. to practice the IAP development process.
Learning Objectives:
Given a simulated HazMat incident, the student will participate in an initial incident briefing with the incident commander to obtain situational awareness.
Given a simulated HazMat incident, the participant will work in a group to conduct an incident analysis to determine the hazards and risks.
Given a simulated HazMat incident, the participant will work as a member of group to develop a verbal incident action plan including verbalizing incident priorities, response objectives, strategy, and tactics.