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Announcing the CHEMTREC 40-Hour Hazardous Materials Technician Certification Workshop, September 30-October 5, 2007, Pueblo, Colorado

This course is designed to familiarize the student with the widest possible variety of situations involving hazardous materials the responder may encounter including railcars, highway vehicles and small packages. Classroom time and field work are carefully balanced to maximize the learning experience. Some of the training in this course will include:

• Site assessment with field exercise
• Inspection, evaluation, and wear of protective equipment with exercise
• Leak control and containment with exercise in personal protective equipment
• Monitoring equipment with exercise
• Vapor suppression with demonstration
• Incident command system
• Tank cars with field response exercise
• Cargo tanks with field response exercise
• Small containers and intermodal tanks with field response exercise

Successful completion of the course will depend on academic measurements, performance checks and field response evaluations. Upon completion of the course the student will receive a certificate of completion from the American Chemistry Council and the Emergency Response Training Center of the Hazmat Services department of the Transportation Technology Center, Inc.

This course is limited to 36 students to ensure maximum hands-on participation. The duration of this course is 5 days, 40 hours, divided equally between hands-on and classroom instruction.

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