The Overall Operation
This person organizes the HazMat operation and conducts the mission briefing.
Who is the HazMat Officer?
This Entry Team member handles clean supplies and documentation.
Who is the Clean Guy?
A pH below 7 indicates this.
What is acidic?
FTIR measures the absorption of this type of light.
What is infrared light?
Raman uses this to analyze a sample.
What is a laser?
This person completes the ICS 208 HM.
Who is Command
This Entry Team member handles tools after they contact the product.
Who is the Dirty Guy?
A dark reaction on KI paper suggests this hazard class.
What is an oxidizer?
This is shown on the bottom axis of an FTIR spectrum.
What is wavenumber?
This can wash out a Raman spectrum.
What is fluorescence?
Before the Entry Team can go downrange, these two non-negotiables must be completed.
What are pre-entry medical monitoring and Decon established and ready?
These readings are established before moving downrange.
What are background readings?
A positive F-paper result detects these.
What are fluoride ions?
A poor-quality spectrum should make you do this before trusting a library match.
What is reassess or repeat the test?
A through-container scan gives a strong spectrum, but this may be contributing to what the instrument sees.
What is the container or packaging?
During a HazMat Alert transport, this is sent to the receiving hospital.
What is one unit as an EMS Assist?
This photograph connects the product to a fixed point in the scene.
What is a mid-range photo?
Every wet chemistry screen is negative. This still cannot be ruled out.
What is an unidentified hazardous material?
An ATR-FTIR repeatedly gives poor data on a clean sample and clean instrument. This physical problem should be checked next.
What is poor contact with the crystal?
The Raman laser can cause this dangerous effect in a sensitive material.
What is heating or ignition?
This position can stop the HazMat operation when the risk outweighs the benefit.
Who is the HazMat Safety Officer?
This agency decides whether HazMat collects criminal evidence.
What is law enforcement?
Suspicious crystals around a container cap should trigger this action.
What is stop and request EOD?
On an absorbance spectrum, this axis shows how strongly the sample absorbed infrared energy.
What is the vertical axis, or absorbance?
Raman gets a strong signal, but fluorescence buries the useful molecular information. Switching to this technology may solve the problem and for this reason.
What is FTIR and FTIR is able to see through fluorescence?