2025 Oklahoma Homeland Security Hazardous Materials Conference Registration
Providing Hazardous Materials training and education to those who are involved in the response to emergencies involving hazardous substances. This model for hazardous materials training is designed to protect responders, workers and the communities they serve from the impact of hazardous materials release.
There is no cost to attend this conference. All training is FREE!!!
***Registration Check in will be located at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center***
Locations
Conference Center
Edmond Fire
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Our Courses
This refresher course is designed for employees who are involved in cleanup operation both volunteer and emergency; along with storage, disposal and treatment of hazardous substances uncontrolled waste sites.
Air Monitoring – Using the Technology and What It Is Saying
The use of detection and monitoring is one of the most important parts of any incident involving a hazardous material or fire today. A response organization that does not use detection and monitoring and interpret the results, is placing themselves and the public in harm’s way. The officer in charge can use properly interpreted results…
Ummmmm…… this depends on you!
I95 and the 122.2mm 27 Hours of Questions
Through a case study of an incident that closed a major interstate on the July 4th holiday weekend, this interactive program will discuss the incident, use of the ICS, Interagency Communication and Cooperation, The various components that helped make the decisions that ended with a long inquiry as to the actions of those involved in…
Industrial Fire & Spill Response
This program will cover the basics regarding emergency response techniques, spill response operations, dealing with control valve leaks and shutoffs, as well as foam proportioning devices and application techniques. We will also discuss new hybrid technical decon methods for dealing with flammable liquid events. We will review the various challenges in fighting all types of…
Lithium Ion Battery Toxicology
This presentation will go over the recent updates with lithium-ion battery fire toxicology and the new research that has come out from agencies such as TEEX, University of North Carolina, UCLA, FSRI, and others. Chris will discuss the findings of these agencies along with other research that has occurred and bring the info down to…
Lithium-Ion Battery Response From Start to Finish
In this roundtable discussion, Adam, Patrick and Chris will go over the concepts and issues related to Lithium-Ion batteries from construction to response and investigation. Along the way these international instructors and technical experts will go over all forms of lithium-ion battery response, including code development, research, and response.
Managing Large-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Incidents
Lithium-ion battery incidents are on the rise, posing unique challenges for hazmat teams and first responders. This session examines real-world incidents involving large-scale lithium-ion battery failures, analyzing the actions taken during these events and their outcomes. Participants will gain insights into effective response strategies, lessons learned, and recommendations for managing similar incidents in their jurisdictions….
Learning when and how to use meters/monitors, how they work and what the best options are for force protection. Also, we will have hands on training with cold tapping a MX-306/DOT-406, learning the parts of a hydrolat valve and how to repair it, learning the parts of a Betts valve and the proper location and…
Physical and Chemical Properties (HOT)
Hazards, Risks, and Consequences during this 8 hour highly interactive class, participants will understand the significance in using physical and chemical properties to assess hazards encountered at hazardous materials incidents, apply physical and chemical properties to manage risk during hazardous materials incidents, and understand consequences of how things can go wrong on hazardous materials incidents….
You’re the First on the Scene to a Propane Incident
As a firefighter you have the potential to be dispatched to something new or a call you don’t have specialized equipment for. What happens when you’re the first department on scene to at a propane incident and have nothing to work with. This program with discuss tactical options for just such an incident. You have more than you think would be my guess. We will look at evacuations, vapor management, management of heat sources allowing a tank to cool or manage how much it warms up. We’ll discuss the why, where, and how to correctly apply water. We will discuss freeze patching and the challenges of making it work well. We’ll look at past incidents and to see what happened and
what we can learn from them and much more. One of your best tools is sitting on your shoulders, let’s put some more fuel for thought in it.
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Back to Basics: Gounding and Bonding
The program will follow the recommendations as set by the NFPA 470 standard and discuss the misunderstand of what ground resistance is why we do it first. Then, by demonstration, the instructor will show how we set up a grounding field for the damaged container, grounding field for the recovery container and appliances and how to bond them together. This is an interactive program that will ask the student to discuss the subject. You can bring your ground density meter with you and make sure you how it works.
Building the Plane as We Fly It: Li-Ion Batteries in Practice
With battery incidents making headlines, especially in New York City, this session takes you on a journey with the responders handling these situations. We’ll examine the evolution of our response processes, current practices, and future directions. Ample time will be provided for discussion.
Hazmat Fires & You: Large Scale Flammable & Combustible Liquid Fires
This program will cover the basics regarding emergency response techniques, spill response operations, dealing with control valve leaks and shutoffs, as well as foam proportioning devices and application techniques. We will also discuss new hybrid technical decon methods for dealing with flammable liquid events. We will review the various challenges in fighting all types of fires and hazmat spills from railcars, tanker trucks, combustible storage tank facilities, and manufacturing process areas.
Hydration, You’re Either a Hero or a Hemorrhoid
This session focuses on the health and safety of emergency crews when operating in hot environments. The temperatures can be anywhere from 70 degrees Fahrenheit to 120, the issues are the same.
With so much attention on firefighter health and wellbeing there has been a lot of effort on reducing the exposure to toxic materials at emergency incidents. Whether the scene is a hazardous materials event, or a residential fire, repeated exposure to toxins can cause long term diseases such as cancer. This presentation will focus on the need for proper hydration in the detoxification process as well as the importance of maintaining hydration to prevent after incident heart attacks and strokes.
Initial Monitoring for First Arriving Hazmat Responders
This course examines the strengths and weaknesses of standard 4 gas instruments that are carried by many hazmat teams and first arriving fire apparatus. In today’s world critical decision making is predicated on not only using instrumentation but using it correctly. This class goes into essential decision making when using a 4 gas instrument for qualitative and quantitative monitoring at hazardous materials incidents. Participants will understand the following concepts.
Propane Response 101 to Advanced Tactics – An Overview
The shortened conference presentation is designed to provide the student with general information needed to respond to a propane leak involving a bulk transportation vehicle (rail, MC331 tanker or bobtail), bulk storage (250 gallon and larger), common residential and portable tanks.
Responding to an H2S Oil & Gas Emergency
This presentation will focus on what first responders need to know when responding to an oil and gas location involving H2S.
- We will discuss the various oil & gas locations and the differences
- How to identify and know what hazards may be present on certain locations
- Discuss the possibility of dealing with a well control incident in addition to an H2S release
- Case Studies – review and discuss incidents involving H2S from the Permian Basin as well as a well blowout incident in eastern Oklahoma
Static Electricity “Common Problem” and Uncommon Knowledge
In this session we will examine the risk factors of non-managed static discharges involving flammable liquid vapors and flammable gases. During the lecture we will examine past events and discuss the factors and lack of De-Risking that led to fires and explosions. We will discuss in detail the importance of conductive and non-conductive flammable liquids and the hidden hazards of each.
The Lost of Art of Mentorship, Are We Failing Our Own?
Session Summary: At the firehouse we have many conversations around the kitchen table. It does not matter if it was a complicated extrication, HazMat incident, Fire or even a bread and butter incident. But if you really were listening, you were listening to generational experience. Sometimes the senior person starts the conversation, or the junior responder asks a question. However it starts, you are in the process of a mentorship, a relationship, a valued time of learning and you may not even realize it. The conversations that transpires around the kitchen table are as valuable as initial training, and in some cases more so. A conversation that is basically mentorship spiced with education and a bond between responders. Do you have a mentorship program, a system for secession, or informal display of future leadership. In this session we will share several ways mentorship can occur. We will discuss, how one can start a
program, but more important are the details of how to start the conversation. Lets have a conversation……
Why Do I Care? Physical and Chemical Properties
This session takes a fresh look at the chemical and physical properties that form the basis of all our operations. Moving beyond the basics, we’ll explore why these properties matter and how they provide tactical advantages. We’ll examine these concepts from multiple perspectives to better understand how they influence our ability to control incidents.
Curbside Chemist is an 8-hour class that focuses on the classification of an unknown product using chemical test strips and other items that can be found around the fire station. Participants will be instructed in the use of chemical test strips to identify an unknow sample. Participants will have the opportunity to use these techniques in the classification of several unknow products. The course will also demonstrate advanced sampling techniques using FTIR and RAMAN technologies in conjunction with test strips.
This course was developed to give first responders, hazmat teams, fuel transporters, bulk storage operators, ethanol production facility operators and other safety personnel with statutory responsibilities or functional capabilities an in-depth look at proper training techniques needed when responding to an ethanol-related emergency.
Ummmmm…… this depends on you!