HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRAINING COURSES

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Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials incidents. Fire officers, emergency services, and private sector personnel with decision making or functional duties in hazardous materials incidents.

Duration of Course: 4 hours

Scope and Content: Hazardous materials classification; labeling; packaging; recognition; identification; and use of response guides. Designed to meet OSHA and NFPA Haz/Mat: Awareness Level.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials incidents. Fire officers, emergency services, and private sector personnel with decision making responsibilities or functional duties in hazardous materials incidents.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Systematic process for Haz/Mat incident response; basic hazard and risk assessment techniques; basic options, requirements, and limitations of methods to control, contain, and confine the hazard. Designed to meet OSHA and NFPA Haz/Mat: Operations Level. (Course covers same topics as IRHMI: Concept Implementation with additional topics.) PREREQUISITE: Haz/Mat: Awareness Level training.

Agency offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audience: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials incidents and have responsibilities in accordance with NFPA 472 Haz/Mat: Technician Level.

Duration of Course: 36 Hours

Scope and Content: Developing and implementing a site safety plan; implementing decontamination procedures; performing Haz/Mat control; identification and verification of Haz/Mat; utilization of reference materials, incident management; hazard and risk assessment; educational and medical requirements. Designed to meet OSHA and NFPA Haz/Mat Technician Level. PREREQUISITE: Haz/Mat: Operations Level training.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audience: Emergency services personnel with responsibility to use, deploy, implement and/or function within a departmental Incident Command System (ICS).

Duration of Course: 12 Hours

Scope and Content: Overview of the structure and expendability of ICS; setup and implementation/operation of ICS.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audience: Emergency services personnel who are responsible for serving as an incident commander at a hazardous materials incident.

Duration of Course: 24 hours

Scope and Content: Direction and coordination of all aspects of the incident from initial response to stabilization; direction of resources; proper documentation; reporting requirements; and incident critiques. Designed to meet OSHA and NFPA Haz/Mat: Incident Command level. PREREQUISITE: Haz/Mat: Operations Level training and the NFA Incident Command System course.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials. Fire officers, emergency services, and private sector personnel with decision making or functional duties in hazardous materials incidents.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Provides the ability to recognize the difference between normal suppression operations and hazardous materials and their potential dangers; access resources; and ensure personal safety. Provides good refresher for first responders at the Awareness Level.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials incidents. Fire officers, emergency services, and private sector personnel with decision making responsibilities or functional duties in hazardous materials incidents.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Systematic process for Haz/Mat incident response; basic hazard and risk assessment techniques; basic options, requirements, and limitations of methods to control, contain, and confine the hazard. Does not fully meet OSHA and NFPA Haz/Mat: Operation Level requirements. PREREQUISITE: IRHMI: Basic Concepts or Awareness Level.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: BLS and ALS personnel who respond to incidents that may involve hazardous materials.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Preincident; response and arrival; patient care; transport; decontamination; and post incident. PREREQUISITE: Haz/Mat: Awareness Level training.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency services personnel who may respond to hazardous materials incidents chlorine emergencies.

Duration of Course: 6 hours

Scope and Content: Characteristics and hazards of chlorine and hands-on use of Chlorine Institute A, B, and C kits.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency response personnel responsible for analysis, management and response to an incident or responsible for fire prevention inspection where knowledge of chemical behavior of material is essential.

Duration of Course: 36 hours

Scope and Content: Terminology; Haz/mat classifications; Periodic Table; salts, oxidizers, and hydrocarbons; vapors; combustion analysis, and ignition factors.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Emergency response personnel responsible for analysis, management and response to an incident or responsible for fire prevention inspection where knowledge of chemical behavior of material is essential.

Duration of Course: 24 hours

Scope and Content: Corrosives; flammable solids; Class A fuels; and plastics. PREREQUISITE: Haz/mat Chemistry I

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Fire and rescue officers and others involved with fireground safety situations.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Overview of fireground deaths and injuries; safety in training; post-incident safety; and survival tips.

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Fire and rescue officers and others involved with pre-incident preparation.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Fireground commander's role; company readiness; communications process; and pre-incident planning. (This course is similar to the NFA course Preparing for Incident Command.)

Agency Offering Course: Ohio Fire Academy

Target Audiences: Fire and rescue officers, and others involved with situation assessment and decision making for structural firefighting operations.

Duration of Course: 12 hours

Scope and Content: Command sequence; size-up; assessment of resources needed; critical, strategic and tactical decisions; and action planning. (This course is similar to the NFA course Commanding the Initial Response.) PREREQUISITE: Managing Company Tactical Operations: Preparation or NFA "Preparing for Incident Command" course.