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Significantly revised, the 2018 edition of NFPA 472 works to ensure responders can perform their expected tasks and handle haz-mat/WMD incidents safely and effectively.

Adopted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NFPA 472: Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents helps reduce accidents, injuries, illnesses, disabilities, and fatalities by ensuring that responders to haz-mat/WMD incidents are up to the task.

NFPA 472 identifies the minimum levels of competence required by responders to emergencies involving hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It applies to awareness level personnel, operations level responders, hazardous materials technicians, incident commanders, hazardous materials officers, hazardous materials safety officers, and other specialist employees.

This important Standard is considered the parent document to:

  • NFPA 473: Standard for Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents
  • NFPA 475: Recommended Practice for Organizing, Managing, and Sustaining a Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Program
  • NFPA 1072: Standard for Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Emergency Response Personnel Professional Qualifications

Major changes in the 2018 edition help align the documents, to provide greater clarity and consistency for response personnel, their commanders, and governing authorities:

  • Significant modifications address the competency baseline of hazardous materials technician
  • Added chapters provide specialty or advanced specialty competencies for the technician level, including monitoring and detection, consequence analysis and planning, chemical risk assessment and analysis, product control, weapons of mass destruction, and decontamination.
  • Revised chapters cover awareness and operations levels to correlate with the other documents.
  • Two added operation level responder mission-specific competencies address diving in contaminated water environment and evidence collection.

The latest edition of NFPA 472 is essential for anyone who responds to hazardous materials/WMD incidents, including fire, rescue, law enforcement, emergency medical services, private industry, and allied professionals.

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Published:
08/21/2017
ISBN(s):
9781455916979
ANSI:
ANSI Approved
Number of Pages:
134

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Ensure that responders to hazmat/WMD incidents are up to the task and reduce accidents, injuries, illnesses, and fatalities with the 2008 NFPA 472.

NFPA 472 identifies the minimum levels of competence required by responders to emergencies involving hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The 2008 edition has been retitled and completely rewritten (with major chapter reorganization) to apply to ALL first responders, regardless of response discipline, who may respond to the emergency phase of such incidents. It is based on the operational philosophies that emergency responders should be trained to perform their expected tasks, and that a responder cannot safely and effectively respond to a terrorism or criminal scenario involving hazmats/WMD if they don’t first understand basic hazardous materials response.

Key changes in the 2008 edition include:

  • The term “responder” has been dropped from the definition of Awareness Level (now “Awareness Level Personnel”). NFPA 472 now views these individuals as those who in the course of their normal duties, may be first on-scene and expected, as part of their responsibilities, to activate the emergency notification system. Awareness Level Personnel are not viewed as emergency responders.
  • Operations Level Responder–if an individual is tasked to respond to the scene of a hazardous materials/WMD incident during the emergency phase, that individual is viewed as an Operations Level Responder. Competencies for these responders have been broken down into Core Competencies, which are required of all responders at this level, and Mission-Specific Competencies, which are optional and provided so that the AHJ can match the expected tasks and duties of its personnel with the required competencies to perform those tasks.
  • Hazardous Materials Technician–The definition of a hazardous materials technician has been modified to reflect the usage of a risk-based response process and the definition of a hazardous materials response team has been changed to specifically reference the performance of technician-level skills.
  • The Annex contains new competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Radioactive Materials Specialty and Operational Level Responders Assigned Agent-Specific Responsibilities.

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Published:
10/01/2007
Number of Pages:
66

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Update to the 2013 NFPA 472 to protect emergency personnel by making sure responders can perform their expected tasks and handle haz-mat/WMD incidents safely and effectively.

Adopted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NFPA 472: Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents helps reduce accidents, injuries, illnesses, disabilities, and fatalities by ensuring that responders to haz-mat/WMD incidents are up to the task.

NFPA 472 identifies the minimum levels of competence required by responders to emergencies involving hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It applies to awareness level personnel, operations level responders, hazardous materials technicians, incident commanders, hazardous materials officers, hazardous materials safety officers, and other specialist employees.

Key changes in the 2013 edition include:

  • Chapter 6 was expanded to include a new mission-specific competency for operations level responders who handle improvised WMD dispersal device disablement/disruption and operations at improvised explosive laboratories.
  • Chapter 15 was expanded to include non-tank vessel information and is renamed Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Marine Tank and Non-Tank Vessel Specialty.
  • New Chapter 16: Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Flammable Liquids Bulk Storage Specialty (formerly Annex E in the 2008 NFPA 472)
  • New Chapter 17: Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Flammable Gases Bulk Storage Specialty (formerly Annex F in the 2008 NFPA 472)
  • New Chapter 18: Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Radioactive Materials Specialty (formerly Annex G in the 2008 NFPA 472)

This updated Standard is essential for anyone who responds to hazardous materials/WMD incidents, including fire, rescue, law enforcement, emergency medical services, private industry, and allied professionals.

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Published:
06/18/2012
ISBN(s):
9781455904327

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