Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents
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The NFPA 472-2018 standard has been significantly revised to ensure that responders are able to effectively and safely handle incidents involving haz-mat/WMD. This standard, which has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, aims to reduce accidents, injuries, illnesses, disabilities, and fatalities by ensuring that responders have the necessary competence to respond to haz-mat/WMD incidents.
NFPA 472 identifies the minimum levels of competence required for various roles involved in responding to haz-mat/WMD emergencies, including awareness level personnel, operations level responders, hazardous materials technicians, incident commanders, hazardous materials officers, hazardous materials safety officers, and other specialist employees. The standard is considered the parent document for related standards such as NFPA 473, NFPA 475, and NFPA 1072.
The 2018 edition of NFPA 472 includes major changes that align the different documents and provide greater clarity and consistency for response personnel, their commanders, and governing authorities. These changes include modifications to the competency baseline of hazardous materials technicians, addition of specialty competencies for the technician level (such as monitoring and detection, consequence analysis and planning, chemical risk assessment and analysis, product control, weapons of mass destruction, and decontamination), and revisions to the awareness and operations levels. The 2018 edition also includes two new mission-specific competencies for operation level responders, addressing diving in contaminated water environments and evidence collection.
| Language(s) | English |
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