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hazardous material - ✔✔any substance or material in a form that poses an unreasonable
risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce or kept in storage at
a warehouse, port, depot, or railroad facility.
hot zone - ✔✔area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough to
prevent adverse effects outside the zone.
warm zone - ✔✔area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone
support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and, thus, assists in
reducing the spread of contamination.
cold zone - ✔✔area where the incident command post and supports functions are
located.
decontamination - ✔✔a chemical and/or physical process that reduces or prevents the
spread of contamination from persons or equipment; the removal of hazardous
substances from employees and their equipment to the extent necessary to preclude
foreseeable health effects.
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, disaster plan - ✔✔a predefined set of instructions for a community's emergency
responders.
national incident management (NIMS) - ✔✔the management system used by federal,
state, and local governments to manage emergencies in the United States
Incident Command System (ICS) - ✔✔a subset of the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) designed specifically for management of multiple-casualty incidents.
command - ✔✔the first on the scene to establish order and initiate the incident
command system.
single incident command - ✔✔command organization in which a single agency controls
all resources and operations
unified command - ✔✔command organization in which several agencies work
independently but cooperatively.
incident command - ✔✔the person or persons who assume overall direction of a large-
scale incident.
triage - ✔✔the process of quickly assessing patients at a multiple-casualty incident and
assigning each a priority for receiving treatment; from a french word meaning "to sort".
triage supervisor - ✔✔the person responsible for overseeing triage at a multiple-
casualty incident.
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