1st Edition

Hazardous Materials Emergencies The Professional Response Team

By John R. Cashman Copyright 1995
    369 Pages
    by CRC Press

    From the Introduction
    This book is mostly structured around first-person interviews with nationally and locally recognized experts who have been in hazardous materials response for a number of years. To aid networking, the addresses and telephone numbers of all persons interviewed are listed at the end of each interview.
    The central narrative theme of the book has been to detail the actual methods, procedures, techniques, tactics, and "lessons learned" of specific hazardous materials response teams (HMRT) drawn from a number of different categories. The object is to have readers find a ready source to provide knowledge of what a teamed, trained, and equipped HMRT uses for methods, tactics, procedures, tools, vehicles, instruments, equipment, strategies, leak/fire/spill control, prevention, remedial actions, decision making, incidents, containment, or hazards. This book answers many questions for emergency responders that they may need to know tostay alive.

    Introduction

    DOWNTOWN NUCLEAR ALERT
    General Discussion of Nuclear Waste Disposal Springfield's Hazardous Materials Incident Springfield's Preparedness Responding to the Nuclear Fuel Incident Cleanup

    BACKGROUND TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INCIDENTS
    Cleanup Nuclear Energy Sites Cancer-Causing Pesticides Petroleum Polluters Water

    THE "HAZARD" OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE
    Hazardous Materials Response Teams Hazardous Materials Incidents 1993 Annual Report of the Houston (Texas) Fire Department HMRT

    LOCAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE TEAMS
    The Kenosha Fire Department HMRT, Kenosha, Wisconsin New Berlin Fire Department Special Units, New Berlin, Wisconsin The Hazardous Materials Response Team of the Charlotte, North Carolina, Fire Department Mount Prospect, Illinois, Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team "Our World Begins at the Decontamination Reduction Zone"; The Hazardous Materials Unit of the Orange County Fire Department, Irvine, California Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Hazardous Materials Response Team

    HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TEAM FUNCTIONS
    Thirteen Bogus Commandments of Hazardous Materials Response Background to Hazardous Materials Response Hazardous Materials Response May Be Different than Normal Fire Calls Incident Command Positions Hazardous Materials Operations Methods, Systems, and Strategies of Hazardous Materials Response

    GETTING THE JOB DONE
    Response to a Mystery Gas or Toxin at Riverside General Hospital in California The Basic Aspects of Chemical Protective Clothing Use and Reuse of Protective Clothing in Haz Mat Response Chicago, Illinois Fire Department Guidelines and Procedures for Hazardous Materials Incidents Understanding a Hazardous Materials Response Team's Operation Getting Down to Business Computers and Software at Hazardous Materials Incidents

    FEDERAL AND STATE RESPONSE TEAMS
    Fort Detrick Haz Mat Team of Frederick, Maryland Turning an Emergency into a Routine Response The Hazardous Materials Officers of the Virginia Department of Emergency Services Hazardous Materials and Emergency Medical Concerns in Desert Storm Naval Ordnance Station Haz Mat Response Team, Indian Head, Maryland

    HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRAINING, LEGISLATION, AND STANDARDS
    Training Legislation National Fire Protection Association Standards

    MEDICAL PROTECTION
    On-Scene Emergency Medical Services at Hazardous Materials Incidents Medical Surveillance of Hazardous Materials Response Teams Is Required by Law Hospital Care of Victims The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Research Materials Related to Medical Protection and Surveillance Toxicology: The Scientific Discipline of the Effects, Antidotes, Detection, and Other Studies Related to Poisons

    REGIONAL RESPONSE TEAMS
    Office of Emergency Preparedness Special Hazards Operations Team, Country of Cumberland, Carlisle, Pennsylvania The Sedalia-Pettis County, Missouri, Hazardous Materials Response Team The Hamilton Township, New Jersey, Emergency Response Team The Fredricksburg, Virginia, Fire Department HMRT Lake County, Illinois, Hazardous Materials Response Team The Hazardous Materials Response Team of Porter County, Valparaiso, Indiana Lake Area Mutual Aid Fire Departments Hazardous Materials Response Team, Wisconsin Washington County, Maryland, Emergency Services HIRT Northeast Haz Mat: Eleven Cities Take the Regional Approach to Haz Mat Response in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas

    INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE TEAMS
    Emergency Spill Response at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas Hazardous Materials Response Team at Boeing Defense & Space Company, Irving, Texas The Hazardous Materials Response Picture at Kodak Corporation in Rochester, New York Emergency Response with EmTech, a Private Response Contractor Serving Texas and the Southwest The Nationwide "Merit" Program of MCI Telecommunications Corp., Chicago, Illinois

    LIABILITY AND INSURANCE FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE TEAMS
    Liability for Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents How Deep Are Your Pockets? Liability in Hazardous Materials Response Don't Say Stupid Things Haz Mat Response Team Underwriting Eligibility Requirements

    "MY MOST UNFORGETTABLE INCIDENT" (STORIES BY KNOWLEDGEABLE RESPONDERS)
    Rem Gaade, Toronto Fire Department, Ontario, Canada Frank Docimo, Turn of the River Fire Department, Stamford, Connecticut William E. Clayton, Stow Fire Department, Stow, Massachusetts Jack Henderson, Chautauqua County, New York Captain Jerry Grey, San Francisco Fire Department HMRT, California Chief John Eversole, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago, Illinois

    RESEARCH SOURCES AND RESOURCES
    Associations Books Catalogues Conferences "Hotlines" and Other Telephone Numbers Networks (Computer) Training Software and Data Bases Visual Aids Lending Library

    INCIDENT REPORTING
    Hazardous Materials Incidents (by Date)
    Appendix A: Directory of Hazardous Materials Response Teams
    Appendix B: Hazardous Materials Markings, Labeling, and Placarding Guide
    Glossary

    Biography

    John R. Cashman

    "Hazardous Materials Emergencies", first published in 1983, quickly became a standard guide to hazardous materials emergency response and control. It has been widely used in industry and government as a text, reference, and training aid.
    Now, a completely updated new edition has been published. Encyclopedic in scope, this big new edition contains current information on types of emergencies, response teams, equipment, planning and preparation, training, medical protection, strategies and techniques, liability and insurance, case histories, and information sources.
    This updated guide and reference has been prepared to serve the practical information needs of government and industrial personnel who are professionally concerned with dealing with hazardous materials emergencies.
    "Stands out as a big book crammed full of vital information needed by anyone seriously concerned with reacting competently to the... hazardous materials incident... The book is worth many times over its price."
    -Journal of Civil Defense

    "A very useful introductory hazardous-materials book."
    -Chemical Engineering