Hazardous Materials : Handbook for Emergency Responders

Rating:
Summary: A quite interesting book
Review: A quite interesting book for people who are interested by hazardous materials response. It presents in detail the HAZMAT procedure to manage an incident after a rapid presentation of the "hazmat team" and his equipment. Gives also a large presentation of each class of hazardous substances and the adapted "HAZMAT" procedure to respond at several type of incident. In his appendix, it describes a large pannel of common hazardous substances and presents for each class of substance a sort of checklist to apply the correct procedure without forgetting any important point. It could be a good support for teaching specialised firefighters (or others) giving a good operationnal approach. But it must be completed by a bit of chemical theory.

Rating:
Summary: A quite interesting book
Review: A quite interesting book for people who are interested by hazardous materials response. It presents in detail the HAZMAT procedure to manage an incident after a rapid presentation of the "hazmat team" and his equipment. Gives also a large presentation of each class of hazardous substances and the adapted "HAZMAT" procedure to respond at several type of incident. In his appendix, it describes a large pannel of common hazardous substances and presents for each class of substance a sort of checklist to apply the correct procedure without forgetting any important point. It could be a good support for teaching specialised firefighters (or others) giving a good operationnal approach. But it must be completed by a bit of chemical theory.