Hazmat Training

This course covers the skills and knowledge required to select, don, test and safely operate appropriate personal protective clothing and equipment at an incident involving dangerous goods and hazardous chemicals as well as safely combatting incidents involving hazardous materials.

It will also provide you with the skills and knowledge to respond to incidents where you are required to use specific equipment to detect airborne contaminates, liquids and solids at a hazardous materials incident.

Students who attend and successfully meet all assessment requirements of the course will receive a nationally recognised statement of attainment with the following unit of competency: PUAFIR324 Render hazardous materials incidents safe,

PUAFIR306 Identify, detect and monitor hazardous materials at an incident & PUAFIR308 Employ personal protection at a hazardous materials incident

• Identify workplace hazards and risks, and advise others
• Implement hazard and risk control procedures
• Monitor effectiveness of hazard and risk control procedures
• Develop, implement and review of plan for mitigation of HAZMAT incident
• Conduct pre-donning checks and tests on breathing apparatus
• Don and check breathing apparatus
• Operate breathing apparatus
• Conclude operations