Course Details

Hazardous Materials Technician

Course Hours: 80.0 Hours

Course Description

Students will be trained to the minimum training requirements for emergency responders to incidents involving hazardous materials/WMD. Responders to these incidents are expected to perform technically advanced operations to mitigate the emergency. This course is designed to address these requirements and prepare the emergency responder to respond in a safe manner to protect themselves and their community. This course is eighty (80) hours long and broken into two segments, one week on, one week off, and then the students return for the second week. The week off will have some assigned course work for week two. The eighty-hour course covers identifying hazardous materials/WMD materials and their characteristics and toxic effects if released. It is designed to prepare responders to determine and utilize proper PPE to confine/contain the release and decontamination of personnel or civilians that are involved in the release.

Prerequisites

Students must have successfully completed Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations course as well as the Foundational Concepts of Chemistry (Q0228), online self-study offered by the National Fire Academy.

Who Should Attend

Personnel aspiring or assigned to fire department units designated to respond to and mitigate Hazardous Materials Incidents offensively to protect the public and minimize environmental impacts. 

Special Notes