A team of students wearing yellow hazmat suits steps toward a simulated abandoned factory. They unlock the door, peer inside a small room and set their eyes on tipped barrels and white crystals ...

I have always admired hazmat technicians. They just mention the term CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive) and they have my attention. But then they put colorless, odorless, ...

PIQUA, Ohio (WDTN) – The Piqua Fire Department recently completed a 40-hour, weeklong Hazardous Materials Technician course, earning members of the department hazmat certification. According to our ...

When firefighters receive hazmat training, they enter into a new world of strange terms and unknown hazards. They might be worried about “ethyl methyl death” or “growing a third arm from radiation.” ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - With a high potential of danger from the spill and spread of hazardous materials, training emergency response teams to deal effectively with such incidents has become ...

The hazmat team used an off-site training facility to drill on all aspects of a chlorine leak — from incident command to initial entry to decon. The day-long event pushed team members through a ...

RENEWED CONCERNED ABOUT RAIL SAFETY WAS THE FOCUS OF A TRAINING EXERCISE FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY TODAY. AND THIS COMES MORE THAN A MONTH AFTER THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN TRAIN ...

The Short Line Safety Institute (SLSI) has released two analyses of Hazardous Materials Training sessions held over a three-year period for short line railroad hazmat professionals, and the results ...

Denny Eisenhofer will tell you that safety isn’t everything when it comes to trucking hazardous materials. It is the only thing. Eisenhofer, a 30-plus year veteran of Reading, PA-based Textile ...