Overview
A safe room is a system of barriers that protects the occupants from the outside environment. Under usual operations, a building does little to protect occupants from external airborne hazards because outside air must be continuously introduced through these openings to provide a comfortable, healthy inside environment. A building can provide substantial protection against agents released outside only if the flow of fresh air is filtered, temporarily interrupted, or reduced, and the building openings are closed or sealed. Interrupting the flow of fresh air by reducing the flow of air through the building openings is the principle applied for safe rooms.
This 4-hour course describes how to add chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) protection capability to a shelter or safe room. It also discusses air filtration, safe room criteria, design requirements, operations and maintenance, commissioning, and training required to operate a shelter or safe room.
This course is applicable to engineers, planners, architects, construction and operations personnel, security and law enforcement agents, as well as consultants and contractors who are interested in gaining a better understanding in CBR threat protection of safe rooms and shelters. This knowledge will enable the occupants or facility managers to focus upon the actions that provide the highest degree of protection.
This course will introduce you to Chapter 3 “CBR Threat Protection” of the FEMA Publication tilted, “Safe Rooms and Shelters” (FEMA 453).
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty five (25) questions at the end of the course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Specific actions to achieve protection for ventilated and unventilated safe rooms
- Learning how air filtration affects protection of safe rooms
- Understanding the selection or design criteria for protection against airborne toxic materials
- Understanding advantages and limitations of Class 1, 2 and 3 safe rooms
- Understanding the requirements of isolation and protective mode operation of HVAC systems
- Designing and installing toxic-agent safe rooms
- Estimating the size of a filter unit for a safe room based on square footage
- Operating a safe room in home and office building
- Specific operation and maintaining instructions for CBR shelters
- Commissioning procedures for a Class 1, 2 and 3 safe rooms
- Upgrading a CBR safe room
- Training on the use of a safe room
Course
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Safe Rooms and Shelters - Chemical, Biological and Radiological Threat Protection
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