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Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations, Student Workbook

Overview

This Student Workbook contains exercises to reinforce what you will learn in both the Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations textbook and in the classroom. The exercises cover the 2008 edition of NFPA 472, Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents, and are designed to encourage critical thinking and aid comprehension through a variety of exercises for each chapter, including:

  • Multiple Choice: Numerous multiple-choice questions prepare you for exams.
  • Fire Alarms: Scenarios help you develop your decision-making skills by describing emergencies and challenging you to come up with solutions.
  • Skill Drills: Test your skills with photo jumbles and caption fill-ins. Place photos in the correct order to test your knowledge of a skill and fill in the captions to ensure that you
  • know all of the steps of the skill.
  • Labeling: Cement your mastery of difficult concepts with illustration labeling activities.
  • Word Fun: Quiz your knowledge of terminology and spelling with these crossword puzzles.
  • And more: True/false, matching, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank!

Page references to the Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations textbook are provided for every question in the Student Workbook.

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Chapter  1  Hazardous Materials: Overview
Chapter  2  Hazardous Materials: Properties and Effects
Chapter  3  Recognizing and Identifying the Hazards
Chapter  4  Estimating Potential Harm and Planning a Response
Chapter  5  Implementing the Planned Response
Chapter  6  Terrorism
Chapter  7  Mission-Specific Competencies: Personal Protective Equipment
Chapter  8  Mission-Specific Competencies: Technical Decontamination
Chapter  9  Mission-Specific Competencies: Mass Decontamination
Chapter  10  Mission-Specific Competencies: Evidence Preservation and Sampling
Chapter  11  Mission-Specific Competencies: Product Control
Chapter  12  Mission-Specific Competencies: Victim Rescue and Recovery
Chapter  13  Mission-Specific Competencies: Response to Illicit Laboratories
Chapter  14  Mission-Specific Competencies: Air Monitoring and Sampling
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International Association of Fire Chiefs

Established in 1873, the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) is a powerful, professional membership organization of more than 12,600 chief fire and emergency officers. The mission of the IAFC is to provide leadership to career and volunteer chiefs, chief fire officers, and managers of emergency service organizations throughout the international community through vision, information, education, services, and representation to enhance their professionalism and capabilities. Members of the IAFC are the world’s leading experts in fire fighting, emergency medical services, terrorism response, hazardous materials spills, natural disasters, search and rescue, and public safety legislation.

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National Fire Protection Association

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been a worldwide leader in providing fire, building, electrical, and life safety to the public since 1896. The mission of the international nonprofit organization is to reduce the worldwide burden for fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically-based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. Developer of the National Electrical Code®, and 300 other codes and standards through a full, open-consensus process, NFPA also produces educational curricula, including the Risk Watch® community-based injury prevention curriculum and the Learn Not to Burn® fire safety curriculum. NFPA headquarters is in Quincy, Massachusetts.

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