Industrial Facility Response Command and Control
Some fixed industrial sites have the potential to provide the elements for a major incident, and many response agencies fail to properly prepare their personnel to respond. Large-scale industrial facility responses offer a great number of unique challenges. This includes everything from exotic chemicals to large bulk supplies of petroleum products to unique processing equipment. Facility utility systems (electric, gas, steam, nitrogen, oxygen, etc.), typical facility operating parameters (pressures, temperatures, flow rates, etc.), and facility layout (narrow streets, congested areas, buildings, process equipment, etc.) all make responses to fixed industrial site responses very challenging. This class will review basic incident management and tactics and strategies that should be considered for seemingly basic response operations (EMS, basic rescue, and structural firefighting) as well as specialized response operations (storage tank/processing equipment fires, pipeline leaks, confined space rescues). It will also provide information on special considerations (industrial hygiene monitoring, community alerting, high volume water and foam supplies) that may be required for fixed industrial incident responses.
