Course Overview
Simple tools to identify and understand the behavior of materials can be used to quickly and effectively minimize harm from terrorism threats to public safety from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and weaponized hazardous industrial materials. Past incidents illustrate outcomes and lessons learned. Students will learn visual hazard gathering and classification techniques, environmental influences and interpret information to predict the behavior of materials leading to a determination of appropriate personal and public safety actions. Basic knowledge of contamination, how hazardous materials enter and affect the victim's body will give better understanding of the magnitude and variety of effects. Protective positioning, industrial exposure standards, respiratory and whole-body protective equipment, and common decontamination methods will provide a sobering perspective of exposure consequences.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Define "terrorism", "WMD" and "CBRNE" and discuss general restrictions of Canadian law.
- Discuss common types of terrorist and terrorism, common targets and give the most common method of terrorism.
- List generally recognized responsibilities of first-on-the-scene in terms of personal and public protective action.
- Briefly discuss information gathering - importance, how to and what to look for.
- Discuss and explain common physical and chemical properties of materials and the effect of environmental factors such as weather and terrain in relation to spread and control of a spill.
- List and discuss the four routes of entry and exposure.
- Discuss basic human physiology in terms of exposure and how materials are taken into the body and types of damage.
- Discuss the generalities of pharmacology of hazardous materials in the body in terms of absorption, distribution and elimination, consequences of repeated or continuous dosage, distribution throughout the body and elimination of materials from the body.
- Define and explain dose, dose-response, industrial hygiene factors, variation in lethal concentration and lethal dose across a population and factors of individuals which influence the effect of exposure to a toxin.
- List and discuss toxin interactions and explain pros and cons of antidotes.
- Discuss Weaponized Chemical Agents and list the 5 official types and their effect on victims.
- Discuss the use of industrial chemicals as weaponized chemical agents.
- Using examples explain the usefulness of various physical and chemical properties and health cautions in evaluating the danger of an industrial chemical.
- Discuss the transmission of biological agents to a victim population.
- Explain infectious agents.
- List and briefly explain the 5 weaponized types of biological agents.
- Discuss the role of public health techniques in protecting against and dealing with biological agent attack.
- Contrast the speed of action of chemical and biological agents in terms of detection and response issues and effect on a general population.
- Briefly describe how radioactivity is produced, what it is and its general short and long term effects on living organisms
- Explain the terms: isotope, half-life, exposure rates and protective actions.
- Briefly explain the effects and magnitude of the use of a nuclear agent in a city.
- Discuss explosives in terms of comparing mechanical, chemical and nuclear explosions, high and low, primary, secondary and booster explosives and the effect of confinement on an explosive.
- List and discuss the types of damage which can happen to personal protective clothing and how to recognize each.
- Describe the parts of and the desirable and undesirable features of a good level 2 protective ensemble.
- Describe the components, advantages and disadvantages of level 2, 3 and 4 suits.
- Demonstrate safe donning and doffing techniques for a level 2 ensemble.
- Describe contamination, secondary contamination and possible consequences.
- Describe general decontamination intentions.
- Describe the layout and operation of a one pool decon setup, an emergency decon using water, emergency doffing of ppe and deconning a non-ambulatory victim.
- Describe the advantages and contrast the disadvantages of gathering information from afar.
- Describe the general features of a TDG placard, define class, and division, list the 9 primary classes and the appropriate divisions associated with each.
- Define the divisions associated with each of the 9 classes of TDG materials.
- Describe where TDG placards are located on road trailers and railcars.
- Describe the meaning of the Danger placard, temperature hazard and marine pollutant.
- Describe the reliability of information provided by TDG placards in terms of quantity of contents of the container.
- Given pictures of typical bulk and non-bulk containers, correctly identify each mode of transport, container type name, model if applicable, identifying design features, give one typical chemical carried in each, and state the major hazard associated with an accident or terrorist incident involving each.
- Given examples of materials, an ERG and UN numbers, look up and note the major hazards associated with each, the public protective action distances both night and day, and give the correct guide number and green page number.
- Describe the design of the ERG and how it can be used to identify and or classify hazardous materials.
- Explain chemical nomenclature issues found in transportation documents and MSDS sheets which can cause difficulty in finding a specific chemical in the ERG.
- Explain MSDS sheet design and draw attention to the appropriate parts which give useful hazard evaluation data.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2008
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