Emergency Response Training Course
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16-Hour Confined Space / 8-Hour Refresher
This course prepares students to perform as a member of a rescue team functioning in a confined space. Topics include safety precautions and identification of personal protective equipment; regulations and energy requirements; demonstrations of procedures for confined space rescue including monitoring, rigging, patient packaging, and ventilation. -
64-Hour Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
Customized training class per client.
This course prepares students to perform as a member of a rescue team functioning in a confined space. Topics include safety precautions and identification of personal protective equipment; regulations and energy requirements; demonstrations of procedures for confined space rescue including monitoring, rigging, patient packaging, and ventilation.
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16-Hour Fire Brigade / 8-Hour Refresher
This course provides basic firefighting skills required for industrial fire brigade personnel such as basic fire suppression and safety equipment, demonstrating fire suppression techniques and rescue procedures, and identifying procedures for emergency evacuations in the industrial setting.
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24-Hour Hazmat Tech Level / 16-Hour Refresher
Technical instruction in the storage and handling of hazardous materials, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, notification procedures associated with emergency response plans, labeling, manifesting, placarding, spill containment, and proper use of personal protective equipment and instrumentation.
Meets federal regulations and minimum certification requirements of a hazardous material emergency response technician, hazardous materials specialist, or on-site incident commander as found in the Code of Federal Regulations: 29CFR-1910.120.
Content of course is relevant to the professional development of the student. Demonstrate implementation of an emergency response plan; identify known and unknown materials using field survey instruments and equipment; identify roles of the Incident Command System; select and use specialized chemical personal protective equipment; identify hazard and risk assessment techniques; demonstrate advance control, containment, and/or confinement operations; demonstrate implementation of decontamination and termination procedures; and identify basic chemical, toxicological terminology and behavior.
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4-Hour Hurricane Preparedness
This course is designed to provide a study of emergency management and preparedness for hurricanes in an industrial & communal setting. Preparation, procedures, and potential hazards will be reviewed. The course will also include evacuation procedures and awareness of hurricane preparedness with an emphasis on the Coastal Bend.
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24-Hour Pump Operations / 16-Hour Refresher
This course is designed to provide Emergency Response Teams knowledge and skills necessary to operate fire trucks. Classroom topics include types of fire apparatus, fire pump theory, hydraulics, apparatus familiarization, driving safety, drafting operations, relay pumping, hydrant operations, and parallel pumping. Certain topics will differ in the customized classes according to the fire truck used on company's site.
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40-Hour Rope Rescue I / 24-Hour Refresher
This course provides instruction on the proper use of rescue equipment and the safety of personnel during any technical rescue that may involve special circumstances involving high places or underground or confined spaces. This course may be administered at our Windward Campus (RR-I) or at a client’s facility (RR-II).
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24-Hour Structural Firefighting / 16-Hour Refresher
Structural firefighting skills required for industrial fire brigade personnel. Utilize basic fire suppression and safety equipment; demonstrate fire suppression techniques and rescue procedures; and identify procedures for emergency evacuations in the industrial setting. -
16-Hour Trench Rescue / 8-Hour Refresher
This course provides instruction on the proper use of rescue equipment and the safety of personnel during the shoring up the sides of a trench, including digging a trapped worker out of a collapsed ditch. This course includes special training in excavation during rescue operations.
Course Details
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Del Mar College - Windward Campus, 4101 Old Brownsville Rd., Corpus Christi, Texas
Requirements: Participants are responsible for providing their own PPE. Cancellation notice is 7 or more calendar days before the start of the class; thus, a full refund will apply. Cancellation notice 6 days or less before the start of the class will be charged 100% of the class tuition.
For questions or more details on pricing, dates, and registration, please contact Program Manager, Christine Benavides at 361-698-1966 or cbenavides18@delmar.edu