NFPA 704 Refresher Review

This marking talks to us.  If we understand what it is telling us we have an opportunity to incorporate health hazards, flammability & reactivity hazards and special concerns that can affect the early decision that you may make.  What you are dealing with, where to stage, initial data collection using onsite publications, and/or communications. In the scheme of things the snapshot you are being shown can assist in the early moments in an incident.   Are you comfortable with the 704 Diamond?

NFPA 704 Review

Mission Critical ... HazMat New technologies

Radiological Terrorism .. Just-in-Time Training for Clinicians

The Centers For Disease Control prepared this video refresher presentation for clinicians.  After previewing it we found it a short series that helped educate by addressing questions that may help you understand how this type of emergency would be handled.

Part One - Radiological Terrorism .. An Introduction
Part Two - Key Principles
Part Three - Patient Scenario's

Can You Identify These HazMat Placards?

In this short learning burst we show you 11 different placards in a 30 second period. You can jot down your answer for each. The second half of the clip provides the identification answers.  It is one of those refreshers that may help you make an initial product identification at an emergency scene.

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The Emergency Response Guidebook

Let's take a look at just how comfortable we are when it comes to using the ERG as a starting point resource when an incident requires it.   The self evaluation will help guide you to determining your current level of understanding about what to do when you need this resource.

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LNG / CNG  Refresher Presentation

It was an interesting review.  LNG becoming CNG and fueling more vehicles than I had thought about.  I have seen the new MBTA CNG buses all over town so I was not surprised that many of them were using the CNG fueling station.  But the ever growing fleet of environmentally safe vehicles operated within the Commonwealth are fueling up here.  Even privately owned CNG vehicles are stopping by. The time to go over the characteristics of the fuel and look at the fueling station is now. With the tour that I had I want to share what I saw and learned in the form of a short refresher presentation.  

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Without vision we can not change .. without change we can not grow ..
without growth we can not succeed .. bcolameta
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Commitment ... Perseverance ... Flexibility ... Adaptability
Flexpertise .. Compromise ... Culture Shift