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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Kuchta on April 16, 2008 at 10:24pm

On our team we consider hazmat technician to be the bare minimum requirements...a starting point if you will, so haz-mat ops...is "enough to be dangerous/defensive". We assume after that level you'll know enough to be defensive minded, recognize the hazard(s), clear the area and wait for help.

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Permalink Reply by 2y0a1vey9p4zt on April 16, 2008 at 10:34pm

Our department requires everyone department wide to be trained to the Operations level. That way we don't need to use what few techs we have to set up a decon line. A tech can oversee it as Decon officer, but we can use operations level personnel to man the line.

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Permalink Reply by Rick on April 17, 2008 at 4:00am

Try using NFPA 472. This will show you what your members need to know for each level of Hazmat response.

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