Hazardous Materials Awareness Level and Operations Interactive Training

Kaplan Continuing Education – Fire and EMS Division offers Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations Interactive in partnership with Jones and Bartlett Publishers. The cutting-edge online training program provides an exciting and engaging learning experience for Awareness and Operations level HazMat students. This course enhances the awareness level of training for hazardous materials  by meeting and exceeding the requirements for Fire Fighter I and II certification and satisfies the core competencies for operations level responders including the eight mission-specific responsibilities for first responders within the 2008 Edition of NFPA 472, Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents. Additionally, the material presented also exceeds the hazardous materials response requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Features and benefits of Kaplan’s Hazardous Materials Awareness Level and Operations training course include:
- A simple, user-friendly interface to ensure that students do not waste time learning how to navigate through material.
- In-depth reporting features for instructors
- A safe and self-paced training environment that allows students to learn at their own pace
- Full narration that may be disabled at any time
- Anytime, anywhere access that provides total flexibility
- Affordable access for even the most budget-conscious training sites

Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations Interactive provides in-depth coverage of:
- The properties and effects of hazardous materials and WMDs
- How to calculate potential danger and initiate a response plan
- Selection, use, advantages, and disadvantages of personal protective equipment
- Mass and technical decontamination
- Evidence preservation and sampling
- Product control
- Victim rescue and recovery
- Air monitoring and sampling 
- Illicit laboratory incidents

Just like a printed review manual or study guide, this resource can be simply used as a virtual workbook to reinforce important concepts presented in the classroom. It can also be used as a full distance learning course in place of traditional lecture settings. No matter how you choose to utilize it, Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations Interactive can enhance any hazmat awareness or operations level training course.