Hazardous Material, Fire Prevention Plans, Hydrogen Sulfide Awareness Course, and Industrial Emergency Response Plans

Hazardous Material, Fire Prevention Plans, Hydrogen Sulfide Awareness Course, and Industrial Emergency Response Plans

OBJECTIVES

This course provides preparation for command of initial incident operations involving emergencies. Topics include incident management, fire-ground tactics and strategies, incident safety, and command/control of emergency operations. Upon completion, students should be able to describe the initial incident command system as it relates to operations involving various emergencies in fire and non-fire situations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Managers – Operations, Safety and Executive
• Engineers – Process, Safety and Mechanical
• PSM Implementation Team Members – Anyone involved with implementation, including operators and maintenance personnel
• Compliance Auditors
• Technicians

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Fire Behavior
2. Combustion
3. Heat
4. Determining Flashover Time
5. Flashover
6. Back draft

1. The Mechanisms of Fire Extinguishment
2. Water Flow and Form
3. Fog: Theory and Practice
4. Solid and Straight Streams
5. Firefighting Foams and Additives 

III. The Development of Firefighting

1. Ladder Company Functions
2. Staffing a Company
3. Staffing Trials
4. Establishment of Rescue Companies
5. Influence on the Fire Service by the Insurance Industry
6. Progress in Firefighting
7. European Methods

1. Firefighting Strategy
2. Personnel Requirements
3. Apparatus Response Time
4. Establishment of a Command Post
5. Span of Control
6. Incident Command System

1. Firefighting Tactics
2. Tactical Considerations
3. Location of the Fire
4. Extension Probability
5. Types of Fires
6. Analysis of the Fire Situation

1. The Action Plan – Working At A Fire
2. Finding the Fire
3. Rescue, Search, Entry, Ventilation
4. Protection of Exposures
5. Safety
6. Communication
7. Salvage, Overhaul, Extinguishment
8. Cooperation of Other Agencies 

VII. Fire ground Control and Coordination

1. Stress Situations
2. Coordination
3. Tactical Errors and Weaknesses
4. Application of the Tactics

VIII. Safety On The Fire ground

1. Building Collapse
2. Burns, Smoke Inhalation, Electrocution
3. Safety and Building Collapse
4. Heat Hazard and Clothing
5. Clothing Limitations and Problems
6. Getting Lost
7. Critical Incident Stress

1. The Fire Building – Hindrance And Help
2. Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
3. Structural Failure
4. Building Collapse
5. Mill Construction
6. Collapse from Water 

1. Sprinkler Operations
2. Checking the Supply
3. Sprinkler Flow
4. Automatic Wet-Pipe System
5. Automatic Dry-Pipe System
6. Deluge Systems
7. Non-Automatic Systems 

1. Ladder Company Operations
2. Some Common Mistakes
3. Ladder Company Positioning
4. Necessity of Assigning Tools
5. Use of Ground Ladders
6. Need for Scaling Ladders 

XII. Engine Company Operations

1. Hydrants
2. Tandem Pumping
3. Hydrant-to-Pumper Layout
4. Hose Operations, Large-Diameter Hose
5. Hydrant Selection
6. Lines Taken From A Pumper
7. Restricted Inlet Flow
8. Delivering The Water
9. Interior and Exterior Attack

XIII. Pre-Fire Planning

1. Stress on No variables
2. Post-Fire Analysis
3. Evaluation Standards

XIV. Major Fires     

1. Logistical Factors
2. Command Structure
3. Staging Area
4. Fire Officials of Disaster Area

1. The Everyday Fire
2. Plastics, Oil Burners
3. Chimney, and Attic Fires
4. Mercantile, and Taxpayer Fires
5. Multiple-Dwelling Fires
6. Apartments
7. Factory Fires

XVI. Special-Problem Fires

1. High-Rise Fires
2. Transportation Fires
3. Hazardous Materials
4. Aircraft Fires
5. Fires In Places of Worship and Assembly 

XVII. Emergency Response Management

1. Identifying the key components of a Safety Management System (SMS)
2. Emergency control
3. Team and personnel training
4. Resources and organization of the team and support facilities
5. Investigation
6. Safety Management Systems
7. Relevant key elements that make up an integrated HSE Management System – SMS in action
8. Planning for efficient emergency response and crisis management
9. Establishing a major accident prevention policy
10. Incident develop or crisis
11. Structuring your organization’s approach to crisis and emergency management
12. The warning of the public in an emergency
13. Justifying the role of industrial emergency response resources
14. Methodology – Risk based scenario reviews
15. Alternatives conclusions/findings
16. Responding to the emergency
17. Activating emergency response plans
18. Undertaking crucial decision
19. communications and problems encountered to bring the situation to a speedy conclusion
20. Contracting out emergency process
21. Choosing the right contractor
22. Back up resources required