Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations Student Workbook / Edition 3

by Rob Schnepp

Overview

This Student Workbook contains exercises to reinforce what you will learn in both Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations, Third Edition and the classroom. The exercises cover the 2017 Edition of NFPA 1072: Standard for Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Emergency Response Personnel Professional Qualifications. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and aid comprehension through a variety of exercises in each chapter, including: Multiple Choice—Numerous multiple-choice questions prepare you for exams. Hazardous Material Alarms—Scenarios help you develop your decision-making skills by describing emergencies and challenging you to come up with solutions. Skill Drills—Test your skills with photo jumbles and caption fill-ins. Place photos in the correct order to test your knowledge of a skill and fill-in the captions to ensure that you know all the details of each step. Lab eling—Master visual recognition with labeling activities. And More—True/false, matching, short answer, and fill-ins!Answers for the end of chapter case scenario “On Scene” can be found in the online Instructor’s Tool Kit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284146943
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	02/08/2018
Edition description:	Student
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rob Schnepp has over 20 years of fire service experience, currently serving as the Assistant Chief of Special Operations for the Alameda County (CA) Fire Department. He is an instructor for the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, providing hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction training internationally. Mr. Schnepp is a current member of the NFPA 472 Technical Committee on Hazardous Materials Response Personnel, and is a former hazardous materials team manager for California Task Force 4, FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team.With a variety of published works covering several fire service topics, including numerous articles in Fire Engineering Magazine, Mr. Schnepp is also an established author. He is a member of the Fire Engineering editorial advisory board and sits on the executive advisory board for the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Regulations, Standards, and Laws
Chapter 2 Recognizing and Identifying the Hazards
Chapter 3 Properties and Effects
Chapter 4 Understanding the Hazards
Chapter 5 Estimating Potential Harm and Planning a Response
Chapter 6 Implementing the Planned Response
Chapter 7 Responder Health and Safety
Chapter 8 Personal Protective Equipment
Chapter 9 Technical Decontamination
Chapter 10 Mass Decontamination
Chapter 11 Evidence Preservation and Sampling
Chapter 12 Product Control
Chapter 13 Victim Rescue and Recovery
Chapter 14 Response to Illicit Lab oratories
Chapter 15 Operating Detection, Monitoring and Sampling Equipment