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32 Hr. Emergency Response Technician Course

Thank you for looking into our Emergency Response Training Program. Please review the following description of our 32 Hr. Emergency Response Technician Course. This course will split the training delivery between our training facility in Port Arthur, Texas, and the Calcasieu Emergency Response Training Center in Sulphur, Louisiana. Each training day will begin at 8 a.m. and run until 5 p.m.

Training Synopsis

This will be an Emergency Response Technician Course. This training is designed to serve as refresher training for Emergency Responders who have already completed the basic requirements for the training listed below. All blocks of instruction will be presented by certified instructors who will facilitate all blocks of classroom instruction and conduct all field training evolutions. The blocks of instruction to be provided will meet or exceed all federal statutory requirements and industry consensus standards. Those Occupational Health & Safety Administration requirements and National Fire Protection Association standards to be addressed will include:

Training
  • OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120
  • Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response
  • Emergency Response
  • OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146
  • Permit-Required Confined Spaces
  • OSHA 29 CFR 1910.156
  • Industrial Fire Brigades
  • NFPA 472:
  • Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents
  • NFPA 600:
  • Standard on Industrial Fire Brigades
  • NFPA 1081:
  • Standard for Industrial Fire Brigade
  • Member Professional Qualifications
  • NFPA 1561:
  • Standard on Emergency Services
  • Incident Management Systems
  • NFPA 1670:
  • Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents

Topics covered during course delivery will include the following:

Day One: ICS/NIMS

  • Basic ICS/IMS Concepts
  • Developing Strategic Goals & Tactical Objectives
  • Roles & Responsibilities of the Command & General Staff Positions
  • Organizing & Managing the Incident
  • Single Command vs. Unified Command
  • Introduction to NIMS

Day Two: Hazardous Materials Technician

  • Site Management & Control
  • Identifying the Problem
  • Hazard & Risk Evaluation
  • Personal Protective Clothing & Equipment Selection
  • Information Management & Resource Coordination
  • Developing & Implementing Response Objectives
  • Decontamination
  • Terminating the Incident

Day Three: Confined Space Rescue

  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Equipment
  • Knots
  • Mechanical Advantage Systems
  • Patient Packaging
  • Scenario Based Training Evolutions

Day Four: Exterior Industrial Firefighting (all topics will be covered during live fire evolutions)

  • Firefighter Safety
  • Personal Protective Clothing & Equipment
  • Self Contained Breathing Apparatus/Respiratory Protection
  • Hose Handling
  • Firefighting Tactics
  • Firefighting Foam
  • Portable Fire Extinguishers
  • Emergency Operations
  • Live Fire Training with Class B Fuels

Course Delivery

This 32 Hr. Emergency Response Technician Course will accommodate between five (5) and twenty (25) students per class. The first three days of the training will be conducted at our training facilities in Port Arthur, Texas. The forth day of training will be conducted at the Calcasieu Emergency Response Training Center in Sulphur, Louisiana. The training day will begin at 8 a.m. and run until 5 p.m. Call for schedule and availability.

    Port Arthur

  • 5048 Houston Avenue
  • Port Arthur, TX 77640
  • Contact:
  • Jamie Wright
  • Phone: (409) 983-5646
  • Fax: (409) 983-5851

    Training & Rescue Services

  • 1717 W. 13th Street
  • Deer Park, TX, 77536
  • Contact:
  • Lisa Herod
  • Phone: (281) 930-1200
  • Fax: (281) 478-0296

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