Recipe or Risk-based: How Do You Teach HazMat? (MICRB #276) - 3 hrs
Instructional Hours: 3.00
This course will address the way we teach Hazardous Materials classes. It is designed to get instructors to think about textbook vs real world in our classrooms. It will also address current trends, topics and methods for HazMat response and how we teach those to our students.
At the completion of the presentation, the student will be able to:
- describe the difference between recipe and risk-based response to a hazardous materials incident;
- describe how your experience as a hazmat responder controls what and how you teach;
- describe why the instructor needs to understand and teach chemistry;
- discuss current trends, topics and methods for hazmat response;
- describe decon: then and now, electrostatic what?;
- describe the need to move beyond reading slides and the instructor guide, and
- describe how to make our students more successful.
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Coordinated by: the MFRI Office. If you have any questions about the course, you are welcome to contact them by email at:
If you require special accommodations please send your requirements to: equity@mfri.org or you may call 301-226-9900 or 1-800-275-6374.