Hazard Control Technologies can work closely with your management team to provide advice to plan and prepare for the unexpected. HCT can help you write a Fire Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan to include chain of communications, evacuation plans, personnel responsibilities and Suggested Operating Guidelines (SOGs) for Emergency Responders handling the fire. Our consultant can advise your team about specific fire equipment that should be on-site and would help your team map out multiple scenarios to make sure the plan is viable.
A proper plan, in place, can mean the difference between a minor event and a catastrophe.
Hazard Awareness Training is presented at your facility and customized to address your needs. This course is recommended for a broad range of plant personnel including operations, management and employees working around transformers, turbines and the entire coal handling system. The course is designed so management can arrange to have certain employees attend pertinent sections of the course. The training covers all aspects of power plant fire and explosion hazards and offers best practice solutions to deal with them. Employees will learn all about sub-bituminous coal and why it presents a hazard. Solutions in coal handling will include coal dust management and other recommendations to reduce the potential of spontaneous combustion. Employees will learn to recognize warning signs and to report them. The course also teaches industry best practices to extinguish hot spots in silos, bunkers and stockpiles. An actual piercing rod demonstration can be included.
➤ Coal handling hazard awareness
➤ Fire hazards - Turbines, transformers, boiler fronts
➤ Typical Course Length: 5 hours
This course is designed specifically for all employees involved in the coal handling portion of power plants. It addresses all aspects of coal handling hazards from unloading to burning. The characteristics of sub-bituminous coal are covered in depth including why spontaneous combustion occurs. The course covers industry best practices to prevent and mitigate hot spots that do occur. An optional piercing rod demonstration can be included.
Typical Course Length: 5 hours
Bulk Storage Fire Response Training is customized to reflect the needs of any industry with concerns about how to respond to a granular or powder bulk storage fire in a silo, bunker or stockpile. The course should include operations and management, but is specifically for emergency response personnel and local firefighters. Industry best practices are taught to identify, pinpoint and target hot spots before they become an explosion hazard. The course includes a piercing rod demonstration.
Typical Course Length: 4 hours
Since Hazard Control Technologies has installed F-500 Encapsulator Agent and foam Concentrate Control Supply (CCS) systems for the last decade, they are best suited to inspect your system annually as specified by NFPA 11.1 (Summary of Foam-Water Sprinkler System Inspection, T) and certify it for service for another year. Also, according to NFPA 11.1, a sample of F-500 EA or foam concentrate should also be tested annually. DHCT can provide both of these services.
Hazard Control Technologies can send an Emergency Response Specialist to your location, 24/7 to advise you when you have an event such as a silo hot spot or a stockpile fire. Our specialists are experienced and will follow industry best practices to safely and quickly mitigate these fires. They will work closely with your incident commander and advise the steps necessary to complete the job. The Emergency Response Specialist will remain on the job, as required, until a satisfactory outcome has been achieved.
