Please note that there are two posts needed to successfully complete the discuss

Please note that there are two posts needed to successfully complete the discussion board assignment. An initial post addressing the discussion board topic is due by end of day Saturday. A response post to at least one other student is due by end of day Tuesday.Imagine that you are involved with a hazardous material spill response or cleanup operation. Describe a cleanup or response plan that you might put into place and describe what you believe would be your role in it. For the discussion board use please review Exhibit 1 OVERVIEW OF PLANNING PROCESS in the required reading National Response Team. (2001, July). Hazardous materials emergency planning guide. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For your role, there are those that are responsible for cleanup, and those directing the response and cleanup operations. For these roles, there are various levels of training prescribed in OSHA’s HAZWOPER Standard 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §1910.120(q). These roles include: First Responder, First Responder Operations, Hazardous Materials Technician, Hazardous Materials Specialist, On-Scene Incident Commander. Take a look at these and think about what your role is or what it would be and determine if you are properly trained. Please be specific on your role.
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I come from a firefighter background and now work at a company that handles the demolition and cleanup of buildings involved in the Manhattan project. To me, a proper hazardous material response or cleanup operation looks like a carefully pre-planned response with an established command structure, defined roles and responsibilities, analyzed risk assessments, and contingency plans that ensure every angle that we could contemplate would be addressed and covered. Through my training, in the event of a response incident, I could either perform in a first responder or a first responder operations role. I know how to identify potential incident scenes through warning signs and signals, how to perform basic emergency operations such as decontamination, barrier protection, and other operations level skills. In my previous job as a firefighter, I would definitely be in the role of an operations level member because of the limited resources we had in the county. At my current job, I would most likely be used in the first responder role due to the special procedures that are in place in the event of an incident within the workplace. Although I am properly trained to perform in an operations role in the fire department, I am not properly trained to perform those same responsibilities in my current job because of the training requirements established by my employer. Where I am now, we have a lot of highly skilled and highly trained members of the workforce that know how to specifically handle the hazardous materials that can be found in our workplace compared to the general training I received to act as a firefighter. Some of those skills could overlap, but our management is very strict on who is authorized to handle these types of incidents. We have a strict organizational structure that is in place in case of one of these incidents, and currently, I don’t fit into that structure unless I happened to be present during the incident.