HazmatNation

By Vance Bennett Not everything you were taught is necessarily 100% true. Do meters lie? They don’t exactly “lie” but sometimes they don’t give us the whole truth and nothing […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

Long-time fire service publishing executive Scott Bieda left retirement to jump into the fire suppression tech industry, where he and his partners launched a new company with a relatively old […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett We often take for granted the various pieces of equipment we use, practices we follow and response tactics we use. Where did they come from? They don’t […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett O2. Element 8 on the periodic table. We all need it. We can’t live without it. That’s the good. But is too much of it a bad […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett Hazmat trainers across the county routinely show a video of a brave cop running into a cloud of anhydrous ammonia to save an unconscious person. They will […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett If you are a member of a hazmat team, you must have 8 hours of refresher training each year. Everyone knows that. However, like a lot of […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett When you use the DOT Emergency Response Guidebook, one piece of advice you want is how far downwind the bad stuff will go. That will give you […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Vance Bennett If you’re wearing a Level-A PPE and your self-contained breathing apparatus fails, you can breathe the air remaining in your suit. How long will that air last? […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]

By Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM, (IHMM, AHMP and APICS) Fellow The saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” is more than a cliché. It is a […]