Program Introduction and Response Plans

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• Unit 1
• Program Introduction and Response Plans

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Course

• Program Goal
• Program Schedule
• Grading and Requirements
• Units

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Introductions

• Student introductions
• Instructor introductions

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Objectives

• Differentiate between hazardous materials
  emergencies and incidental spills
• Identify mission specific training competencies
  important to the participants job function
• Identify incident levels
• Define defensive and offensive
• Identify sources of available pre-incident data

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Incidental vs. Emergency

• Incidental
• Employees properly trained
• Employees properly protected
• Of a scope that employees can control, based upon
  recommendations of MSDS or employer policies
• Example A spill at a hardware store

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Incidental vs. Emergency

• Emergency
• Uncontrolled release of material
• Poses high risk
• High exposure levels
• Life threatening injury
• IDLH
• Fire or explosion hazard
• Oxygen deficient atmosphere

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Operations Level Responders

• The Operations Level Responder is that person who
  responds to hazardous materials/weapons of mass
  destruction (WMD) incidents for the purpose of
  protecting nearby persons, the environment, or
  property from the effects of the release.

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Core Competencies

• Survey the hazardous material/WMD incident
• Gather hazard and response information
• Predict the likely behavior of the material and
  the container
• Estimate the potential course and harm
• Describe the response objectives
• Identify action options
• Determine suitability of PPE
• Identify decontamination issues
• Establish scene control
• Preserve evidence
• Establish ICS
• Use appropriate PPE
• Evaluate progress
• Communicate the planned response

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Mission Specific Competencies

• Personal protective equipment
• Performing technical decontamination
• Performing mass decontamination
• Victim rescue and recovery
• Product control
• Air monitoring and sampling
• Evidence preservation and sampling techniques
• Response to illicit labs

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Emergency Scene Operations

• Defensive
• Minimum PPE Full Bunker Gear/SCBA
• Avoid direct contact
• Avoid high concentrations
• Offensive
• Mission specific
• Properly trained
• Properly protected

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WMD/Illicit Activities

• Secondary devices
• Evidence preservation
• Sampling

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Employer Plans

• Employer Emergency Action Plans
• Activate 911
• Begin evacuation
• Applies to industry
• Employer Emergency Response Plans
• Required by law
• Defines employer and employee roles
• Identifies organizations response

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Standard Operating Procedures

• Identify your actions in order to properly
  respond to the incident
• SOPs implement the intent of your employer's
  emergency response plan
• May include mission specific functions

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LEPCs

• Made of members from different disciplines
• Provides guidance to the communities
• The hazards that are present in the area
• The vulnerabilities to those hazards
• The resources available within the district to
  respond to such emergencies

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CEMPs

• Local
• Devoloped by each community
• Activated when events occur that require the
  unique application of area resources
• State
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• Requested by Local EM
• Florida FOG Manual

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National Contingency Plan

• Incident exceeds local and state
• EPA and Coast Guard
• Covers major hazardous materials emergencies
• Contact NRC

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Incident Levels

• Level 1 ? Minor Incident
• Handled by first arriving units
• Level 2 ? Moderate Incident
• Requires limited additional resources
• Level 3 ? Severe Incident
• Requiring significant multi-agency response

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Initial Incident Considerations

• Incidental vs. Emergency
• Hazards of product
• Quantity of product
• On-site employee capabilities to control
• Scope, jurisdiction and authority
• Potential for targeting of responders

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Initial Response

• Insure awareness goals completed
• Recognition/identification
• Isolation
• Protection
• Notification

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Initial Response

• Conduct operations level hazard/risk assessment
• Determine who and what is at risk
• Identify incident priorities
• Develop and implement a plan of action
• Determine the necessary level of response
• Communicating the plan to others

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