In June, AMPOL's in house Training Dept. performed a 40 Hour HAZWOPER Training class for several new hires as well as an 8 Hour Refresher Training class for employees needing their annual refreshers. This training is required by OSHA Regulations for Spill Response/Clean Up Personnel. Topics covered in these classes included, but is not limited to, the following:
- Regulatory review
- Hazards-Chemical Exposure/Fires/Reactives/Corrosives/Ionizing Radiation/Oxygen Deficiency/Biologic/Safety /Electrical/Heat Stress/Cold Exposure/Noise Hazards
- Hazard Communication
- Hazards & Risk Assessment Techniques
- DOT Emergency Response Guidebook
- Emergency Response including Incident Command System
- Personal Protective Equipment /Eye Protection/Skin Protection/PPE Use
- Program Development/Respiratory Protection/Hearing Conservation &Protection
- Decontamination
- Spill Control including oil spill response
- Monitoring & Sampling
- Stopping Releases
- Incipient Fire Fighting
- HAZ MAT Technician Exercise / Test
AMPOL attends Water Survival/ Multi Seat HUET Training. This training provides our employees with information and skills necessary and minimize injuries and reduce company liabilities in emergency situations.
- Training of Personnel in the Rescue of Persons in Water.
- Review of USCG Regulations Title 33 Part 143- Manned & Unmanned Platforms
- Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Station Bill)
- Survival Principles (Training & Drills, Attitudes, Platform Abandonment Methods & Actions, Clothing as buoyant devices)
- Personal Flotation Devices (Types I-V)
- Life Ring Buoys (use, man overboard actions & video), Life Floats, Life Rafts
- Survival Capsules (application & use)
- Survival Craft Operations Use
- Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics (application & demonstration)- EPIRB, Radio, GMDS
- Helicopter Safety- (safety equipment & procedures involving impact/egress)
- Swing Ropes and Personnel Baskets
- First Aid Treatment (drowning victim procedures, Hypothermia, Litter, First Aid Kit Use)
- Survival Floating/strokes Use of Clothing as Buoyant Devices
- PFD- donning in water, swimming while donning, HELP position demo,
- Hypothermia protection
- Water Entry from a height
- Marine & aviation life raft righting, boarding from the water, assisting survivor in raft
- Rescuing a drowning person while wearing a PFD
- Escaping a simulated oil fire on water surface
- Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (HUET)- multi-seat simulator crash simulation escape
- Life Ring Toss
- Demonstration Rope Swing/Personnel Basket
If you or your company is in need of training please call AMPOL for rates and a list of classes available.
