Decontamination

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• How contamination occurs
• Decontamination of persons and equipment after leaving the hot zone
• Covers all current methods of decontamination, including dilution, absorption, adsorption, heating, freezing, blowing, vacuuming, degradation, neutralization, solidification, disinfection, and sterilization
• Setting up the decon site
• Responsibilities of the decon officer and the decon team
• Emergency decon
• Multiple station decon
• Medical emergencies
• Evaluating the effectiveness of decon operations
• Clean-up

Part of Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident series. Available separately or as a part of the series.