NASP / Safety Awareness Courses / HAZWOPER Awareness

Course Outline

• Implement hazard and risk assessment techniques
• Understand various hazardous materials terms
• Determine appropriate levels of personal protective equipment for HAZMAT events
• Perform control, containment, and confinement operations
• Implement basic decontamination and termination procedures 
• Differentiate between an emergency and non-emergency spill
• Identify potential equipment, manpower, and other resources necessary to implement a spill response
• Conduct proper response in the case of a spill, leak, or other type of pollutant discharge as well as reporting requirements to the various governmental entities