Effective Hazmat Training for Your Department & The Hazmat Team Response

This presentation will start by reviewing and identifying the requirements and guidelines set forth by OSHA and NFPA for the training requirements of each level of Hazmat certifications ie: Awareness, Operations, Technician, Specialist, etc... The presenter will discuss effective ways to start or improve your training program for your Department and / or your Hazmat Response Team. We will discuss the use of technology to include keeping records of team training as well as certificates to stay in compliance for trainings. Then the presenter will discuss ways to train your team by using and building table top exercises and practical application in the field. Examples of this will be identifying unknown by using simple household chemicals for categorizing liquids, solids, or gases, terrorism responses, decontamination responses to thinking outside of the box for creative trainings. The participants will also be shown examples of tabletop exercises to use for their team from first response to technical response. The participants will be shown how to build an exercise and what information to include as the ready their teams or departments for a response. The participants will also be shown where FREE Federal training is available to them either virtually, mobile, or by travel and how to access these valuable trainings.
** Note**
This presentation will be an interactive presentation for the participants from question and answer to ideas or what has worked for participants to share with the audience.