From the farm field to the refinery, from rail cars to neighborhood tanks, liquefied gases are everywhere—and when they fail, the consequences can be catastrophic. This session provides an in-depth exploration of the similarities and differences among Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Chlorine, and Anhydrous Ammonia, focusing on their chemical and physical properties, transportation, storage, and use.

This dynamic and interactive session is designed for Hazardous Materials Officers — and for those who aspire to lead at hazardous materials incidents. If you’ve ever found yourself trying to coordinate the “three-ring circus” that unfolds at a HazMat scene, this session is for you. Participants will explore the principles of incident management and risk-based response through engaging, hands-on activities and interactive technology that simulate real-world hazardous materials incidents. Using these tools, attendees will be guided through a variety of evolving situations that require quick thinking, sound judgment, and coordination across multiple response functions. Throughout the session, we’ll connect lessons directly to NFPA 470, Chapter 17 Job Performance Requirements (JPRs) for the Hazardous Materials Officer position.

Hazardous materials incidents present complex, high-risk challenges that demand confident leadership, sound judgment, and disciplined incident management. This course is designed for current and aspiring Hazardous Materials Officers and Incident Commanders responsible for managing hazardous materials incidents in accordance with NFPA 470.

Participants will examine the roles and responsibilities of the Hazardous Materials Incident Commander, with emphasis on command decision-making, risk-based response, and strategic control of incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, and other hazardous materials. The course focuses on applying NFPA 470 Job Performance Requirements through realistic scenarios that challenge students to assess hazards, establish objectives, manage resources, and maintain responder safety while coordinating multi-agency operations.

Instruction blends facilitated discussion, case studies, and interactive incident simulations that mirror real-world events. Topics include incident size-up, command organization, safety management, information flow, use of technical specialists, coordination with operations and planning functions, and transitioning between response phases. Participants will also explore how detection, modeling, reference materials, and technical data support command-level decisions.

By the end of the course, students will have the knowledge and confidence to assume command of hazardous materials incidents, apply NFPA 470 principles under pressure, and lead effective, defensible response operations from initial arrival through stabilization and termination.

Essential Training for Firefighters • Hazardous Materials Teams  • Law Enforcement • Emergency Management • Industry • Coast Guard • Port Operators

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is expanding rapidly across the energy, transportation, and maritime sectors. With increased production, storage, and movement comes a growing need for responders and operators who understand LNG’s unique hazards and how to manage them safely and effectively.

This streamlined, high‑impact course delivers the fundamentals every responder and industrial professional needs to recognize LNG risks, make informed decisions, and operate confidently during LNG‑related emergencies.

Participants leave with a clear understanding of LNG hazards, stronger decision‑making skills, and practical tools for managing transportation and facility‑based LNG emergencies.

What the Course Covers:

• LNG 101: History, global use, and role its role in electric power generation and as a heating and transportation fuel

• Properties & Behavior: Cryogenic hazards, vapor clouds, flammability, ignition, and dispersion

• Transportation: LNG movement by marine vessels, isotainers, MC‑338 cargo tanks, and the status of LNG by rail

• Facility Operations: Storage tanks, liquefaction systems, regasification, and bunkering operations

• Emergency Response: Scene size‑up, air monitoring, hazard prediction, protective actions, and fire control strategies for LNG incidents

Who Should Attend:

• Firefighters and hazmat teams

• Law enforcement and public safety

• Emergency management and homeland security

• Industrial safety and operations personnel

• Coast Guard, port authority, and maritime operators

Mercury might seem like a relic of old thermometers and switches, but it remains one of the EPA’s highest-priority hazardous materials—and one of the most deceptively dangerous. A spill that looks minor can quickly become a costly, complex, and contamination-heavy nightmare. This session takes a practical, science-based look at how mercury behaves, how it spreads, and why even a few drops can create long-term exposure risks. Participants will review health hazards, vapor generation, and surface contamination issues while learning how to assess risk and establish safe operating zones. From personal protective equipment selection to detection and monitoring tools, this class walks responders through proven field techniques for identifying, containing, and cleaning up mercury releases. Step-by-step strategies for isolation, ventilation, evacuation, decontamination, and recovery are discussed using real-world case examples from schools, laboratories, and industrial settings. 

ALOHA® (Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) is the atmospheric hazard modeling program within the CAMEO® (Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations) software suite. It is widely used for planning and responding to chemical emergencies.

This course provides participants with a solid foundation in current, best-practice use of the ALOHA software, while developing a practical understanding of air-dispersion modeling principles. Emphasis is placed on model interpretation—understanding what the model’s predictions mean in real-world conditions and how a modeler should apply professional judgment to the results.

Participants will learn how to enter details for real or potential chemical releases and generate threat zone estimates for a variety of hazard scenarios. ALOHA can model:

• Toxic gas releases

• Flammable gas clouds

• Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions (BLEVEs)

• Jet fires

• Pool fires

• Vapor cloud explosions

Threat zones are displayed within ALOHA on a grid and can also be mapped using MARPLOT®, ESRI ArcMap,Google Earth, and Google Maps for enhanced planning and response visualization.

Training is delivered by EPA-certified CAMEO Instructors and can be customized to meet specific organizational needs. All student materials are provided, including the use of laptop computers during the sessions.

Essential Training for Firefighters • Hazardous Materials Teams  • Emergency Management • Fire Marshals • Industry Emergency Response Teams • Law Enforcement • Coast Guard

Industrial and chemical facilities operate at the intersection of high energy, hazardous materials, and tightly engineered processes – conditions that can turn routine calls into high‑consequence events. Emergencies in the industrial hot zone demand more than standard HazMat skills; they require a working understanding of how these facilities function, how chemicals move through them, and how failures unfold.

This course pulls back the curtain on the industrial landscape, giving responders the insight needed to make fast, accurate decisions in complex environments. Participants will learn how to read a facility from the outside in – recognizing key processes, storage systems, and hazard indicators that shape size‑up and strategy. From combustible dusts to high‑pressure reactors, from bulk transfer operations to runaway reactions, you’ll explore the systems, safeguards, and failure modes that define modern chemical operations.

Through practical examples and scenario‑driven discussion, responders will build confidence in navigating industrial incidents involving spills, releases, fires, explosions, and process upsets. Whether you’re first‑due or part of a specialized team, this program equips you to operate smarter, safer, and more effectively inside the fenceline.

What the Course Covers:

• Fundamentals of chemical manufacturing and processing.

• Conducting rapid, informed size‑ups of industrial and chemical facilities.

• Recognizing hazards associated with solids, liquids, gases, and combustible dusts.

• Understanding how chemicals move into, through, and out of industrial sites.

• Evaluating transfer operations involving railcars, tank wagons, barges, and pipelines.

• Identifying bulk storage systems and their associated risks.

• Understanding blending, reaction, and production units—including how reactors function.

• Recognizing engineered safety systems such as relief devices and explosion venting.

• Applying preplanning concepts to industrial facilities.

• Developing risk‑based strategies and tactics for mitigation, control, and safe operations.

Have you ever wondered what vapor pressure really means—or how it actually affects your PPE or isolation decisions? In your HazMat Technician class, you may have written down the definitions, but were you ever shown how to apply those terms during a real incident? This session bridges the gap between terminology and tactics. Using basic detection readings and a simple, risk-based decision process, responders will learn how to make quick, confident judgments about fire, corrosive, toxic, and radioactive hazards. By understanding key chemical and physical properties—and how they directly influence protective equipment, isolation distances, and response actions—you can rapidly determine “how bad is it?” After a short review of the process, we’ll apply the lessons through hands-on scenarios that challenge your ability to interpret data and make smart, defensible on-scene decisions.