COURSE OVERVIEW

Examine failures in EVs, hydrogen, propane, CNG, and LNG systems. Students practice system identification, hazard assessment, and interpreting critical indicators in dynamic incidents. Through lecture and tabletop exercises anchored in DOT transportation scenarios, they develop risk-based decision-making, learn to anticipate failures, and connect technical knowledge to operational choices when information is incomplete, conflicting, or misleading.

This course is built for experienced hazardous materials technicians who already understand the basics, but need to connect system identification with real decision-making. Anchored in DOT transportation incidents, you’ll work through EVs, hydrogen systems, propane, CNG, and LNG—not as categories, but as problems to solve. Through lecture and tabletop scenarios, we focus on how these systems fail, what indicators actually matter, and how to make risk-based decisions when the information is incomplete, conflicting, or misleading. This isn’t an awareness class. It’s the step between knowing what these systems are and making the right call when they fail.

This course satisfies the following requirements: OSHA 1910.120; NFPA 1, 2, 30, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59A, 70, 111, 400, 470, 471, 484, 485, 704, 855, 1072; ISO 17840-1:2022