Hazardous Materials Basic Responder for Mass Casualty Incidents

This course provides instruction and practical experience in the skills required to safely support mass casualty incident operations during a hazardous materials mass casualty incident. Course content includes knowledge and practical experience in the donning, operating in, and doffing of personal protective equipment; the conduct of emergency and tiered patient decontamination; the performance of patient triage and lifesaving interventions; and techniques for patient movement and basic rescue. The course culminates in the conduct of a simulated mass casualty incident operation requiring the performance of all learned tasks in a toxic agent environment.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Identify the procedures for conducting hazardous materials mass casualty incident operations
• Don and doff personal protective equipment level C
• Perform decontamination procedures
• Perform triage and lifesaving interventions
• Perform basic rescue procedures

The target audience for this course is awareness-level personnel with an implied or stated requirement to support response operations during a hazardous materials mass casualty incident.

The target audience for this course is awareness-level personnel with an implied or stated requirement to support response operations during a hazardous materials mass casualty incident.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is an Accredited Provider (AP) of Continuing Education Units (CEU) and is authorized to award the following CEUs for successful completion of this activity:

IACET (International Association of Continuing Education and Training) – 1.6 CEUs