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Hazmat Training: Online Options
Build your confidence and knowledge with BNSF hazmat online training materials, produced to help you safely and effectively respond to railway hazmat incidents.
VIRTUAL REALITY MODULES:
Module 1: Initial Incident Size Up
Description: This virtual reality training module is designed for community first responders and emergency management personnel with a focus on “Sizing-Up a Railroad Hazmat Incident – First Safe Steps”.
30 Minutes
Module 2: How to Read a Train Consist
Description: This virtual reality training module is designed for community first responders and emergency management personnel with a focus on how to read and utilize a train consist in the event of a railroad emergency.
30 Minutes
Module 3: Responding to a locomotive emergency
Description: This virtual reality training module is designed for community first responders and emergency management personnel with a focus on safely responding to and securing locomotives during a locomotive emergency response.
30 Minutes
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RECORDED WEBINARS:
Webinar 1: Railroad Emergency Response and Hazardous Materials Awareness
Description: This webinar is designed to help First Responders better understand hazardous materials regulations that apply to the railroad industry, as well as, an overview of BNSF Hazmat and emergency response considerations for railroad hazmat emergencies.
90 Minutes
Webinar 2: Railcar Knowledge for First Responders
Description: This webinar is designed to help First Responders better understand Railcars and some response considerations regarding these cars. We will cover car construction, types, safety appliances and terminology. Much of this discussion will focus on tank cars as being the primary means for Hazardous Materials transport by rail.
60 Minutes
Webinar 3: Locomotive Awareness and Response
Description: This webinar is designed to help First Responders better understand how to respond to a locomotive emergency. During this webinar, we will cover locomotive components, how to mitigate a locomotive fire and the hazards/restraints you may encounter while responding to a locomotive emergency.
60 Minutes
TRAINING VIDEOS:
Crude Oil by Rail – First Responders Safety Training
Description: American Petroleum Institute (API), Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the member companies of both organizations have worked to create a safety awareness course for first responders.
30 Minutes
Ethanol Emergency Response Considerations
Description: The U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in partnership with the International Association of Fire Chiefs presents this video to help emergency responders better understand the challenges they may face when responding to an ethanol-related incident.
25 Minutes
Passenger Train Emergency Response Training
Description: For BNSF and Amtrak, nothing is more important than the safety of our passengers and employees. This 30-minute training video shows how to respond safely and effectively to emergency situations involving passenger trains.
30 Minutes
Certificates, Coins and Caps
Once you complete a training module, you can generate a course certificate that you can print for yourself and any responders who participated in the training.
In addition to the course certificate, as our thanks to you for completing a BNSF training course or courses, we’d like to send you a BNSF challenge coin or cap. Click below to order one of these appreciation tokens (limit one item per person).
