Peach
Fire Department

Four-hour interactive hazardous materials course on using the 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook to run the first thirty minutes of a hazmat incident. Covers what the ERG is for and what it will not do; the anatomy of the book and the workflow through its five colored sections; recognition and identification from placards, labels, markings, container profiles and shipping papers; the three ways into the book — by ID number, by name, and by placard or container; how to read an orange guide's three panels in order; and the green pages, including isolation versus protective action distance, small versus large spill, and day versus night. Closes with five scenarios — a roadway cargo tanker, an ammonia release at a packing house, a sixty-gallon gasoline spill on a station forecourt, an LP tank with flame impingement, and a trailer tire fire on a fireworks load that must be worked from the placard alone — and a short block on what to do when the book runs out. The interactive site at erg.pcfdmembers.org carries the complete ERG 2024 (2,771 index entries, 64 guides, and the green tables), so it also serves as a searchable field reference. Reference: DOT/PHMSA-CANUTEC-SCT Emergency Response Guidebook 2024, NFPA 470, and 29 CFR 1910.120(q). Document the modules completed and the scenarios worked.

1. State what the ERG is designed to do and the point at which it stops being the right reference.
2. Navigate the yellow, blue, orange, green and white sections and describe what each contains.
3. Recognize a hazardous material from placards, labels, markings, container profile and shipping papers.
4. Look up a material by ID number, by shipping name, and by placard or container profile.
5. Read an orange guide's potential hazards, public safety and emergency response panels in order.
6. Apply the green pages to determine initial isolation and protective action distances.
7. Distinguish small from large spill and day from night, and explain why the night distances are larger.
8. Work a hazmat scenario from arrival through isolation, identification and initial actions.
9. Identify the resources and notifications required once the initial response phase ends.

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