Battalion Chief Allegheny County H.M.R.T. Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States
When you think of radioactive emergencies, does your mind immediately think of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Atomic Train? Truth is, a majority of emergencies involving radioactive substances involve construction vehicles or normal non placarded vehicles carrying low level packages. Someone smuggling a Soviet warhead onto a runaway train is a scenario only made for the movies. This class will go over radiation basics, transportation case studies, metering techniques, and ways you can make radiation les boring for your team, and keep you prepared to mitigate any incident, without evacuating 50,000 people.
Learning Objectives:
Identify basic radioactive principals.
Identify transportation, industrial, and terrorism events involving radioactive materials
Identify common instrumentation to use for identifying and measuring radiation