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Provides training to emergency response personnel who may be called upon to respond to a leak, spill or a fire involving ammonium nitrate, calcium hypochlorite or nitric acid. This program covers:
-Basic hazard properties of liquid and solid oxidizers
-Safety techniques for handling an emergency involving
inorganic oxidizers
-Where oxidizers might be found
-What hazards are specific to each chemical
-Symptoms of exposure
-How to assist victims who have been contaminated by
oxidizers
-Safe storage and handling procedures
-Incompatibility issues
-First response, size-up, protective clothing and breathing
apparatus for incidents
-Isolating the scene
-Controlling vapors, containing the spill, and evacuation
-Containers, DOT placarding, NFPA markings
-Protecting water supplies
-Fire fighting, decontamination and cleaning up spills.
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