Course Overview
This HAZWOPER training course is designed to focus on ways to avoid contamination, the decontamination process including methods and equipment used in decontamination, the limitations associated with decontamination, the decontamination line itself, and emergency decontamination procedures.
After completing this course, learners will be able to:- Define what contamination is and measures you can take to reduce it
- Discuss what decontamination is, its purpose, and decontamination procedures
- Describe physical and chemical methods of decontamination and what factors can affect the limitations and effectiveness of decontamination
- Describe the equipment used to decontaminate personnel, vehicles, and equipment
- Identify the contamination reduction corridor and other control zones and their boundaries
- Describe the decontamination line and the sequence of decontamination that takes place there including decisions about disposal
- Define emergency decontamination and mass decontamination