Hazmat School reports that industries generating hazardous waste, like manufacturing and healthcare, must train workers to ...
When firefighters receive hazmat training, they enter into a new world of strange terms and unknown hazards. They might be worried about “ethyl methyl death” or “growing a third arm from radiation.” ...
RAPID CITY, S.D. – The South Dakota National Guard’s 82nd Civil Support Team worked with the Rapid City Fire Department on annual hazardous materials training April 28-29. The joint training enables ...
GERMERSHEIM ARMY DEPOT, Germany -- U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz environmental engineers and firefighters conducted hazardous material spill training with Defense Logistics Agency personnel to ...
Troxler now offers an online course that satisfies U.S. DOT training requirements of 49 CFR 172, subpart H (HAZMAT) for individuals shipping or transporting hazardous materials. Recurrent training is ...
Understanding chemistry can quite literally be a matter of life and death. Brad Livesay, a firefighter and EMT in Carroll County, Maryland, submitted this photo to illustrate how chemistry factors ...
Like OSHA and EPA chemical safety trainings, DOT training helps hazmat employees to recognize and identify hazardous materials and learn how their functions ensure that those materials can be ...
In the November 2017 issue of Firehouse Magazine, this column presented a new theoretical approach to hazardous materials—Hazmatology: The Science of Hazardous Materials. My thesis put forth a vision ...
The fire that torched the Majestic Industries facility in Passaic last January was Fire Chief Pat Trentacost's greatest fear come to life. Not only because of its extraordinary size — an army of ...
Emergency crews were out in force over the weekend as part of a planned hazardous materials training exercise in Gallia County.
More than 1 million hazardous material shipments travel through small towns, major cities and rural expanses across the U.S. every day. Most arrive without incident. But some, like the Feb. 3 train ...