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January 28, 2025 - January 30, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Homeland Security
City of Austin Public Safety Training Complex Building J
Venue Address:
The course provides diverse agency representatives with hazardous material backgrounds the ability to coordinate with local and state emergency responder agencies; to assess WMD events; conduct area surveys in a safe and effective manner; conduct material characterization and screening operations; and collect public safety samples in a hazardous environment.
It provides participants with an opportunity to perform public safety sampling techniques required in the response to a CBRNE event. As observed by the course instructors, participants should take part in classroom activities. Participants, who all have hazardous material backgrounds, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with performing public safety sampling operations required in a CBRNE environment.
Special Instructions
Register for this course through the Texas Division of Emergency Management’s (TDEM) training portal.
This course has a number of prerequisites which can be reviewed on TDEM’s website. Personnel should be assigned to positions from which they would likely make a hazardous material response to a WMD incident, be assigned to a position in which they will develop departmental policies and procedures regarding WMD emergency responder actions or be assigned to positions from which they will develop or deliver WMD training to prepare their departments to respond to such incidents. This course is intended primarily for HazMat technicians. This course is also intended for law enforcement personnel tasked with supporting the operational phase of a WMD incident and transitioning into the crime scene investigation phase; laboratory; public health; and environmental personnel.