Hazardous Materials: Response Priorities and Actions (NFPA 472)selected product title

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This Recert course discusses how to use a multigas meter and have the ability to build defensive control activities. These include absorption/adsorption, overflow and underflow dams, dikes, diversions, retentions, dilution, vapor dispersion, and vapor suppression.

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

• Define exposures in regard to a hazardous materials incident.
• List two protective actions that may be taken in a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe the role of fire fighters during an evacuation.
• Describe how and when a fire department conducts shelter-in-place operations with a local population.
• Describe the monitoring methods used to detect the presence of a hazardous material.
• Explain the special considerations to follow when performing search and rescue operations in a hazardous materials incident.
• List the methods of protecting exposures from hazardous materials.
• Describe confinement and containment operations.
• Describe the methods and tools used to extinguish flammable liquid fires.
• Describe the actions taken during a pressurized-gas cylinder leak.
• List the common hazardous materials control activities.
• Describe how process of absorption can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of adsorption can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of diking can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of damming can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• List the three types of dams that may be constructed during a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of diversion can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of retention can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of vapor dispersion can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe how the process of vapor suppression can mitigate a hazardous materials incident.
• List the types of containers and tanks with remote shut-off valves.
• Explain why the incident commander might withdraw personnel from the hazardous materials incident.
• Describe the recovery phase of a hazardous materials incident.
• Explain the factors that enter into the decision to terminate a hazardous materials incident.
• Describe the precautions to take if the hazardous materials incident involves potential criminal or terrorist activity.

Fire fighters who successfully complete the Hazardous Materials: Response Priorities and Actions course are eligible for 1 hour of continuing education.