Concept Of Operations:

This Standard Operating Procedure will be implemented by the Senior responding Fire Officer when he/she has reason to belive Hazardous Materials or a terrorist device (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive) is involved with the incident or when requested by the Chief Executive, Mayor(s) or Emergency Management Director or his/her designee.

Fire Chief or Senior Official at Hazardous Materials Scene:

• Implement the Incident Command System to manage a Hazardous Materials (HM) incident/accident in accordance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 29, 1910.120, paragraph (q).
• Identify primary and secondary hazards of materials involved in the incident.
• Establish HOT, WARM and COLD ZONES.
• Appoint a scene Safety Officer.
• Determine level of Personal Protective Equipment required for Hot Zone and Warm Zone operations.
• ENSURE responsible party/parties performs site clean-up and disposal or enters into a contractual agreement with a competent HM clean-up company to clean up and dispose of all hazardous substances and/or contaminated equipment at the scene. TEMA/EMA maintains a current list of Hazardous Materials Clean Up companies and 24 hour contact numbers.
• ENSURE population protection actions are coordinated with other response agencies at the scene.
  Activate Mutual Aid as needed.
• Designate Staging Area for responding Mutual Aid providers, as needed.
• Designate Staging Area Manager, as needed.
• ENSURE appropriate local and state government notifications are made. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) must be notified of any incident or accident involving Hazardous Materials; reference Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 58-2-301. TEMA will notify and/or request assistance from other State and Federal sources as needed. TEMA will also provide phone patches, response and other forms of assistance as requested. Local Hospitals must also be notified when the HazMat Team responds to an incident.
• ENSURE overtime, response expendables and food cost records are maintained so the jurisdiction can recoup its response expenses; reference TCA 58-2-304.
• Attend daily Policy Group meeting and provide up-dated information regarding the incident/accident.
• A written action plan should be completed on all incidents.
• HazMat Team debriefing should be conducted after all HazMat incidents to critique performance.
• A minimum of 2 HazMat Team members are required to return to the EOC to ensure equipment and vehicle(s) are properly stocked - which includes ensuring all vehicles and generators have sufficient fuel, and that the HazMat Van and/or Equipment Trailor are resupplied and back to response status.
• Action plan and other documentation is to be forwarded to the EMA Director within 24 hours.
• All HazMat Team members are required to follow NFPA, OSHA, TEMA and federal guidelines at all times.
  

Carroll County Hazardous Materials Team:

Communications:

• All Team members will have either a pager or portable radio.
• The Haz-Mat team should be notified on the first alarm if the call is in the county and there is a report of a hazardous material spill or leak. Other arriving units can disregard the Haz-Mat team if the senior fire official determines the team is not needed. The senior fire official from any municipality can request the Haz-Mat team for their jurisdiction as needed.
  To activate the Haz-Mat team, team members will be paged out on the county fire net with the designated Haz-Mat tones.
• Fire or HazMat responder(s) on the scene should advise responders that are in-route of entry corridor when responding to an incident.
  

Training:

• HazMat training must incorporate ISO standards.
• At a minimum all team members shall complete operations level Haz-Mat training, some team members shall be trained to Haz-Mat Tech level. A probationary period of 6 months is required for all new HazMat Team members.
• The Haz-Mat team members shall attend monthly training to maintain response status, team members who miss 50% of training annually will be removed from response status.
• All technicians must complete a minimum of 8 hours Haz-Mat training annually to maintain their Haz-Mat Technician certification per State guidelines. (The 8 hours annual training is the responsibility of each technician).
  

SOP's revised 3.10.07

Carroll County Hazardous Materials Response Team

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