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Abstract

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Training and Education Center are helping to prepare emergency responders and permitting/code enforcement officials for their respective roles in the gradual transition to the hydrogen economy. Safety will be a critical component of the anticipated hydrogen transition. Public confidence goes hand in hand with perceiveough very different from gasoline and other conventional fuels, is no more dangerous. Ensuring safety in the hydrogen infrastructure will require a suitably trained emergency response force for containing the inevitable incidents as they occur, coupled with knowledgeable code officials to ensure that such incidents are kept to a minimum. PNNL and HAMMER are, therefore, designing a hydrogen safety training program, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies (HFCIT) Program, and modeled after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) multi-tiered approach to hazardous materials training. Capabilities under development at HAMMER include classroom and long-distance (i.e., satellite and Internet broadcast) learning, as well as life-sized, hands-on hydrogen burn props for "Training as Real as it Gets."

Year of Publication
2006
Number of Pages
85-92
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