Hazardous Materials: Decontamination Techniques (NFPA 472)selected product title

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This Recert course discusses how the modern fire service responds to a variety of incidents involving the release of potentially hazardous and life-threatening chemicals and agents. The final step in the control of these incidents is to properly decontaminate emergency response crews and victims in a safe and efficient manner. It also describes how secondary contamination determines the need for emergency decontamination and how to perform emergency decontamination, mass decontamination, and responder decontamination.

After completing this course, the fire fighter will be able to:

• Describe the purpose of decontamination during a hazardous materials incident.
• Explain how cross-contamination can occur.
• List the types of decontamination.
• Describe the process of emergency decontamination.
• Describe the process of gross decontamination.
• Describe the process of technical decontamination.
• Describe the process of mass decontamination.
• List the methods of decontamination.
• Describe the process of absorption.
• Describe the process of adsorption.
• Describe the process of dilution.
• Describe the process of disinfection.
• Describe the proper procedures to follow to safely dispose of items that cannot be decontaminated.
• Describe the process of solidification.
• Describe the process of emulsification.
• Describe the process of vapor dispersion.
• Describe the process of soil removal.
• Describe the process of vacuuming.
• List the general steps of decontamination.

Fire fighters who successfully complete the Hazardous Materials: Decontamination Techniques course are eligible for 1 hour of continuing education.