Hazardous Materials/WMD – Incident Commander
This course is based on NFPA 470: Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Standard for Responders. This course
supplies the Incident Commander with the knowledge and skills to perform his/her role as the person responsible for all decisions
relating to the management of the incident at releases or potential releases of hazardous materials. The candidate will learn about
personal protective clothing, decontamination, branch functions with the Incident Command System, and the overall tactics to properly mitigate a hazardous materials incident.