可再生燃料协会（RFA）和PIMA县地方应急计划委员会（LEPC）将于8月8日，9日和10日在图森（AZ）的亚利桑那大学共同举办免费乙醇安全研讨会。会议将从上午9点至下午2点举行。注册仅限于每次研讨会的前100人。将提供午餐。尽管主要针对急救人员，Hazmat团队，安全经理和当地紧急计划委员会，但也向公众开放。
The goal of these seminars is for attendees to gain full ethanol emergency response training experience that they can put to use immediately in the field and pass along to other first response teams. A majority of this training is based on the “Complete Training Guide to Ethanol Emergency Response,” a training package created by the Ethanol Emergency Response Coalition (EERC) that has been distributed throughout the United States and to several countries worldwide.
“The information from this seminar provides first responders with the knowledge to deal with existing and new ethanol-related situations facing their communities,” said John Wisner, program coordinator at the Pima County Office of Emergency Management. “This knowledge helps them to act safely and efficiently with the tools available to them.”
The Ethanol Safety Seminar focuses on numerous important areas of ethanol safety including an introduction to ethanol and ethanol-blended fuels, chemical and physical characteristics of ethanol and hydrocarbon fuels, transportation and transfer of ethanol-blended fuels, storage and dispensing locations, firefighting foam principles and ethanol-blended fuel, health and safety considerations for ethanol-blended fuel emergencies and tank farm and bulk storage fire incidents. Certificates will be awarded at the completion of the course.
To register for this seminar, go to www.rfa.traincaster.com .
The RFA has been co-hosting Ethanol Safety Seminars throughout 2013. There are four remaining Ethanol Safety Seminars scheduled for the year. They will take place on Sept. 16 in Boardman, Ore.; Oct. 23-24 in Tacoma, Wash.; Oct. 29 in Albuquerque, N.M.; and Nov. 14 in Pipestone, Minn.
For more information on ethanol emergency response, visit the EERC website at www.EthanolResponse.com
