AIHA University Live Online PDC: Planning for Confined Space Rescue Using the National Incident Management System and Incident Command and Air Monitoring Recording

Earn 7.5 Contact Hours

Member $430 | Nonmember $484 | Student $110

The course will provide participants with both general and specific considerations that should be employed to evaluate permit-required confined spaces, in particular those which contain special or unique hazards. The course will review previous incidents which resulted in fatalities or severe injury, describing and emphasizing the need for of a comprehensive confined space entry and rescue plan. Illustration and discussion of lessons learned, pre-planning pitfalls, and the role of the IH within the National Incident Management System (NIMS) structure. New, more contemporary, and old-school approaches will be discussed to compare and contrast among these methods. Subsequently, participants will be broken into small working groups and given a specific confined space scenario that will contain unique rescue hazards. Participants will utilize collective collaboration techniques, practice how to correctly evaluate spaces, and develop a confined space entry and rescue plan. The exercise will then require that a rescue plan be developed and reviewed by the participants. Afternoon demonstration with with direct reading instruments will be provided for a number of instruments.

Learning Objectives

After this online PDC, participants will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of unique, and hard-to-evaluate confined space hazards.
• Review and evaluate incidents in which CS rescue was a significant issue.
• Design a confined space entry and rescue plan, with attention to the rescues.
• Identify the role of the IH in CSE planning.
• Discuss the CSE plans developed and the confined space rescue issues identified.
• Discuss the CSE risks, the rescue equipment and training needed for a successful rescue.
• Use a confined space rescue simulator.

Schedule (Eastern Time)

• 8:00 AM – Course Starts
  
• 10:00 – 10:15 AM – 15-minute Break
• 12:00 – 1:00 PM – 1-hour Break
• 3:15 – 3:30 PM – 15-minute Break
• 5:00 PM – Course Concludes

*Break times are subject to change and will total 1.5 hours.

Presenters

Kenneth C. Eck, CIH, CSP, CFPS, CHMM, DABFE, FACFEI, LEED AP
Kenneth C. Eck is currently the Director of Safety, Environmental and Industrial Hygiene for Quality Environmental Solutions & Technologies Inc., an EHS consulting firm located in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. His experience includes having conducted numerous Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) investigations, Microbial remediations, bulk storage tank removals, and Brownfield remediations. He has responded to various hazardous materials incidents and was involved with the initial response and follow-up recovery efforts following the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Mr. Eck is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Certified Fire Protection Specialist Professional member and is a LEED accredited professional. He also serves on the Toxicology and Confined Spaces Committees of the AIHA. He presently serves as the Past President of the Hudson River Valley Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He is on the AIHA Toxicology and Cannabis Industry committees and is the former chairperson for the AIHA Confined Space Committee. He published an article in the Synergist regarding the Incident Command and National Incident Management Systems, and has presented several times at the AIHCE conferences. He has been a technical reviewer for several National Safety Council Publications and developed MSDS management software. He is retired as the Chief Safety Officer and is a Past Chief of the Howells Fire Department and has 40 years experience as a firefighter/EMT.

Robert Henderson, MBA
Robert Henderson has over 39 years of experience in the design, marketing and manufacture of gas detection instruments. Robert is a past Chairman, and currently Vice Chair of the AIHA Real Time Detection Systems Technical Committee. He is also a past Chairman and current member of the AIHA Confined Spaces Committee, and a past Chair of the Instrument Products Group of the International Safety Equipment Association. Robert has a BS in biological science and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. For the last 15 years he has been the President of GfG Instrumentation, Inc., in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Robert is the author of over 100 articles on gas detection and confined space entry published in magazines and journals in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia, as well as peer reviewed papers in the Synergist and other AIHA publications. He was one of five principal authors of the AIHA Protocol Guide for Confined Space Entry, and co-author of the 2019 edition of the AIHA handbook, "Important Instrumentation and Methods for the Detection of Chemicals in the Field." He is the principal co-author of the chapter on "Catalytic Bead and Non-Dispersive Infrared Detection of Flammable Gases and Vapors."

Robert has helped instruct numerous AIHA professional development courses; and has helped to teach “road show” versions for AIHA sections in the USA, Canada, and South America. He has taught hundreds of confined space and gas detection seminars in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The AIHA class he has helped to teach for the last 14 years, “Methods and Applications for Chemical Detection in Real Time” is one of the Association’s top rated professional development courses.