Firefighting is urgent and stressful work, and decisions are often made without vital information on the hazards that exist. To better protect emergency responders in these situations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised its manual.
A hazmat emergency involving a shipping container shut down North America’s third largest port facility.
Learn to balance a different kind of ball
Terror can be a by-product of business
Foams, fires and freight rates
What do we mean by "hazardous"
HazSim was created by first responders to help conduct training with vital realism to train as if their lives depend on it.
This is the real world. Regulations, necessary though they may be, will never replace the common sense approach of an experienced incident commander who has been significantly involved in an incident response and actually "squirted water in anger."
Almost all the initial information about a Labor Day weekend hazardous materials emergency that spread from an Illinois packaging plant to four hospitals in and around St. Louis, shutting down two major emergency rooms for nearly a day, proved to be wrong.
Responders battle an ever expanding hazmat emergency.
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