Jetty Middelkoop

62, Female

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Profile Information:

Lives in:

Soest

Department:

Fire Dept. Amsterdam Amstelland

Title/rank:

Hazmat Officier

Years of public service:

20

Agency structure:

Paid fire department

Top issues in your department:

Emissions connected to large fires
RNBC
Drugs labs and dumps
Transport of Hazmat

Professional Qualifications:

Technical University degree in laboratory techniques
Degree in radiation safety
RNBC militairy reservist
Fire dept. Hazmat training

Topics you provide training for:

all fire dept. related hazmat aspects

Areas of expertise:

specialty: radiation
silo and manure gas

Bio:

Woman. Born 1962.

Originally trained for lab work, I worked at the
- agricultural university in Wageningen (plant disease and pesticides)
- Ministry of Environment (radiation inspector)
- Ministry of Defence (Head of the Radiological Protection Service)
- Fire Dept. of Amsterdam Amstelland (Hazmat Officer)

My work also is my hobby. In my spare time I
- work as a volunteer fire fighter in Soest
- am correspondent BeNeLux for Hazards intelligence (HInt, http://www.saunalahti.fi/ility/)
- and always scan the web for dangerous goods accidents to learn from.

Beside that, I love to snorkle, canoe and be a reenactor (spinning and weaving in prehistory, viking age and late middle age)

Last but not least I am a cat lover. Right now (july 2008) I have 8 cat kids - I always carry some (sometimes even many) of their hairs around, to the disgust of some colleagues.

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