Hazardous Materials Emergencies: Professional Response Team - John R. Cashman

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
IntroductionDOWNTOWN NUCLEAR ALERTGeneral Discussion of Nuclear Waste Disposal Springfield's Hazardous Materials Incident Springfield's Preparedness Responding to the Nuclear Fuel Incident CleanupBACKGROUND TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INCIDENTSCleanup Nuclear Energy Sites Cancer-Causing Pesticides Petroleum Polluters Water THE HAZARD OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSEHazardous Materials Response Teams Hazardous Materials Incidents 1993 Annual Report of the Houston (Texas) Fire Department HMRTLOCAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE TEAMSThe 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...

Sommaire:
John R. Cashman...