TRANSCAER® Presents T4 - Taming The Tiger Tactics – Tactics and Response For Anhydrous Ammonia

Wednesday, September 18, 2013: 10:10 AM-11:10 AM
Celebration 7 (Peabody Orlando)

Level of Course: Mid

Get prepared to handle anhydrous ammonia incidents by learning the types of ammonia releases that could be encountered with various containers and transportation equipment, and control and containment tactics from both offensive and defensive perspectives.  Lessons learned will be discussed through brief illustrations of case histories involving both stationary facilities and transportation incidents as well as live release training footage.

Obtain knowledge to make risk based response decisions and recommendations involving an ammonia leak or incident. Understand the potential release phases that can be encountered when dealing with an anhydrous ammonia release, including real life cloud modeling and weather impacts on ammonia releases and release phases.

Author:
David Binder, see biography
Handouts
  • 1010_The Process Operator and EMS - Fred Should Know_AECOM_101213.pdf (641.1 kB)