All certifications require completion of a Cancer Awareness course. Upload course completion certificates to Portal profiles now to prevent any certification issuance delays.

As stated in October’s newsletter, Hazardous Materials certifications realign to meet the requirements of NFPA 470 Hazardous Materials of Mass Destruction (WMD) Standard for Responders standard.

HazMat Operations is renamed HazMat Operations and Mission-Specific Responsibilities. Expanding on the PPE and Product Control material, the remaining portion of the Mission Specifics chapter of the standard will be required.

New Hazardous Materials Technician certification available for issuance. Documents previously submitted through Portal will be reposted towards issuance as long as they meet the completion date requirements. Documents submitted through the Equivalent Training area of Portal must meet the requirements of the current or most previous edition of the given NFPA standard. New HazMat Technician skill sheets available from the website.

The full text of the Hazardous Materials update available HERE.

Industrial Firefighter I – updated from requiring completion of Hazardous Materials Technician training, to requiring issuance of full Hazardous Materials Awareness certification along with Hazardous Materials Operations and Mission Specifics certification.

Industrial Firefighter II – updated from just completion of Hazardous Materials Technician training, to requiring issuance of full Hazardous Materials Technician certification. (see above)

The full text of the Industrial Firefighter update available HERE.

For written exams both the number of questions and the allowed time doubles. Firefighter I & II (structural and industrial) increase to 100 questions with an allowed time of two hours each, HazMat Awareness and HazMat Operations and Mission Specifics increase to 50 questions with an allowed time of one hour each. This change reduces the number of points credited to each question, so wrong answers will take off half the number of points. The passing grade remains at 70%.