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ERG Training
How often do you and the guys train on the Emergency Response Guide?
Why or Why not?
Why or Why not?
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Permalink Reply by William Hersman on -
Every couple of months i take the menbers out for a drive and have them look up any placards they see and tell me what they found out about the placard it is a simple training session but could save a life in knowing how to identy the chemical and plan for it.
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on -
great idea!
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Permalink Reply by Paul Lomske on -
Brent,
Great idea keeping an ERG available while travelling!
Would also be good to have one in a POV if your with a rural vol. dept. You might happen upon, or be first on-scene at, a truck or farm chemical wreck/Haz incident and be able to give some advance notice.
Our dept. now has some extra ERG's for personel use, thanks to an excellent class instructed by a certain Todd McKee character. Thanks, Brother!!
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on
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Paul: Thank you for such great comments and it is an honor to have such kind words! Todd
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Overly on -
My Department practices at least annually during our Haz Mat Tech Refresher. I also get to teach from it during my Firefighter I courses and Haz Mat First responder Ops classes.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Gavin on -
We do not. I beleive every apparatus is supposed to have one on it. I actually have my own I "liberated" from a spare chiefs car. As far as us having one, thats on the officers side.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Meek-Shields on -
We do not push training as a department in the ERG. Everyone knows how to use them and has their own copy of them. We urge them to go through them to get used to them. I'm a haz-mat geek though and keep one in the car. We have lots of train tracks we have to wait on so while we are doing that I'm going through the ERG looking them up. My best friend and I are always trying to one up the other one on who can get more looked up during a set time.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Bricault on -
In Albuquerque we have two full time, fully staffed Haz Mat Squads that also have two task forces of people they can call out when needed. I know that the Glow Worms do yearly refreshers that are pretty extensive requiring eighty hours.
The rest of us non radioactive people have a much more condensed refresher on Haz Mat every other year that involves using the ERG. Every Engine, every Ladder, every rescue, squad and ambulance has an ERG on the front dashboard.
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on
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I understand brother! However, I do have a concern everyone in the truck should be reading it on the way to the run. The officer may have missed something. I really think you should push to put them all the trucks along with a NIOSH book. The reason for that is chemicals have trade names that can be looked up in he NIOSH book and not in the ERG until you find another name for it. CROSS REFERENCE
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on
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MMS- Glad to hear that you train on the ERG. I have the privliage of traveling all around teaching HazMat and what I have found is that people have them but have'nt used them and forget. It is always good to train on the ERG a few times through out the YEar. Take a look at my article on FE.com it is called REMOVING THE DUST FROM THE ERG thanks Todd
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on
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NOW THATS WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Shauna Baccus on -
i am also a Hazmat tech and we are constantly doing inservice training of every kind including ERG book. like Brent I to look at trucks/trains and anything with a placard on it to take a look in the book. We recert on a number of components year round and all the other little tid bits during our down time. I will be participating in the CBRN intermediate course in the fall, looking forward to it.
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