Emergency responder training manual for the hazardous materials technician / edited by Kenneth W. Oldfield ; contributing authors, D. Alan Veasey [and others].

Includes index.

Introduction to hazardous materials -- Response laws, regulations, standards, and other policies -- Planning for hazardous materials response -- Incident management system -- Incident assessment and initial actions of responders -- Chemical hazard assessment -- Human health effects -- Physical hazards of emergency response -- Air surveillance -- Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction -- Site control -- Personal protective equipment -- Decontamination -- Basic hazardous materials control -- Advanced hazardous materials control -- Mental stress in emergency response.

"As influential and invaluable as the first edition of this book was, the inalterable transformation of the public and private hazmat response fields since its publication now requires its revision and updating. This Second Edition, still the most comprehensive resource on the market for addressing the training needs of personnel who respond to hazmat emergencies, has been expanded." "Emergency Responder Training Manual for the Hazardous Materials Technician, Second Edition provides the knowledge, experience, and insights of a veteran author team with over eight decades of combined academic and practical hazmat experience. Organized to lead the practitioner from preplanning to dispatch to stabilization of an incident, it remains the number-one resource for training personnel who must respond - with speed and effectiveness - to emergencies involving hazardous materials."--Jacket.