HAZWOPER 1st Responder Awareness Level is a safety training course designed for all employees responding to hazardous material emergencies. Workers must receive training as per OSHA guidelines, based on the level of activities at work sites or at the incident. This particular course also formulates extensive regulations to ensure the worker’s safety and health. The course also suggests protective and preventive measures to reduce or eradicate the hazards at the work sites. HAZWOPER 1st Responder Awareness Level training is recommended by OSHA for identifying the different types of hazards in work site.

Our HAZWOPER training for 1st Responder Awareness Level course meets the requirement set by OSHA. The online Industrial Emergency Response: Hazardous Materials First Responder Operations-Level I HAZWOPER course.

Who should take this course?

The Industrial Emergency Response: Hazardous Materials First Responder Operations-Level I HAZWOPER course is designed for employees who respond to hazardous material emergency for protecting property, person, or the environment from the effects of the hazardous release.

Course Outline

Time: 4 hours.
Once you register in the 4 hour 1st Responder Awareness Level HAZWOPER course, you have 3 months to complete the whole course successfully.  
Course fee: $75

Course topics

An outline of the regulations
The OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.120 covering the hazardous waste operations as well as emergency response is widely discussed in this section of the HAZWOPER course The topics are:

• Introduction to OCH Act
• About OSHA and NIOSH
• HAZWOPER or Hazardous Waste Operation and emergency response
• HCS or Hazard Communication Standard
• OSHA Standards
• The Legislation of Hazardous Waste (EPA)
• Definition of Hazard

Site characterization

Site characterization is very crucial especially when unknown hazards exist at new sites. Participants are taught about the importance of site characterization as well as the responsibility of the employers and workers.

The topic includes:  

• Introduction to site characterization
• On site review
• Current monitoring and hazard evaluation
• Off site characterization
• Documentation 

Identifying Hazard

To encounter both biological and chemical hazards are quite common for a hazmat removal worker. This section of HAZWOPER training online course prepares workers and employers for the possible dangers and about the precautions and preventive measures. The topics includes  

• Definitions of Hazards identification
• Site/equipment hazards
• Biological hazards
• Analysis of hazard and safety
• Identifying hazards
• Environmental hazards

Site control

This module explains how to set up a site control program that is designed to decrease worker and public exposure to physical, chemical, biological and safety hazards at hazardous waste sites. This part also explains why and how to create safety zones to ensure a safe environment for supporting employees and fight against cross-contamination from those workers entering or exiting hot zones. It also reviews the importance of effective site security procedures to keep away unauthorized outsiders away from exposure.

• Site control
• Site work zone
• Site protection

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