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Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents Volumes 1-3

Take the course here: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mhmi_v1_2_3.pdf

An U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service
From the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
HIGHLIGHTS: ATSDR's Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents is a three-volume set (with video) comprised of recommendations for on-scene (prehospital), and hospital medical management of patients exposed during a hazardous materials incident. Volume I - Emergency Medical Services: A Planning Guide for the Management of Contaminated Patients and Volume II - Hospital Emergency Departments: A Planning Guide for the Management of Contaminated Patients are planning guides to assist first responders and hospital emergency department personnel in planning for incidents that involve hazardous materials. Volume III - Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures is a guide for health care professionals who treat persons who have been exposed to hazardous materials. Community Challenge: Hazardous Materials Response and the Emergency Medical System - is a training video for Volumes I & II (50 minutes total; 25 minutes for each volume).
 
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device. Here’s one of those courses.
Samantha Stamper
Director, Emergency Preparedness
304.353.9728
sstamper@hefwv.org
 
Lisa Green
Program Manager
304.353.9705
lgreen@hefwv.org