Basic Haz-Mat equipment needs

[ltmurphyc]

I am a member of a Haz-Mat team, we are looking into what basic equipment a Haz-Mat team should have. If anyone has information available or a site that you can direct me to I would greatly appreciate the help.

Thank you,
Lt. Chris Murphy
South King Fire & Rescue

[oldandwise071]

Here are some off the top of my head:

Standing Operating Guidelines
Training (lots of training)
4 gas moniitors
Ph Paper
Dugent plugs
pipe wrap
plug n' dike
hydraulic or pneumatic pump for liquid transfers (we use are on a lot of saddle tanks)
Various wrenches and sockets
Tie down/ ratchet straps
Reference Books and/or programs
Spill control equipment (i.e. Pads, booms, absorbent material)
Protective Clothing C, B, and A if you are doing technician work
Boots
Gloves (butyl, neoprene, nitrile etc..)
SCBA
Decon equipment and solutions
Resource List
Containment drums
patch kits - Edwards and Cromwell are great
Common sense
More to come

[BPFire1618]

-Sparkless tools
-kiddie pools (work wonders for decon and are EXTREMELY cheap)
-Mass Casualty tags
-Incident Command vests
-truck washing brushes (for decon of personnel in suits)
-tarps (to make your decon line more private)
-lots and LOTS of research books
-backboards or litters (don't want to contaminate the ones in your rigs/buses)
-hardhats or metro-style fire helmets (don't want to contaminate the ones your regular FFs wear. though thats just a suggestion)
-collapsable command tents


Just as an aside, what kind of HAZMAT team are you, Operational or Technician level?

[backsteprescue123]

Chlorine C kit???


Im not a HAZMAT anything but I recently attended a class put on by these people and some fine people from AMTRAK, CSX, and Norfolk Southeren and LOVED IT. Wish I could find their website but here is one from a place they went.............

http://www.sftm.org/safetytrain/safetytrain.html

here is something else about it...... http://www.utlx.com/TA/SafetyTrain-1-3-2004.pdf

[backsteprescue123]

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...72735#continue

Heres another.

[ltmurphyc]

We are a tech level team which responds as part of a regional response. Chris