PROCEDURE:
Initial training to Technician level will be provided to new team members as
a unit. Off-duty members will be paid for all hours of required training. On-duty
members will be on a delayed-response basis. The positions of the additional
members assigned to this training will be covered by shift coverage. The initial
Technician level training will be conducted as a minimum eighty-(80) hour
program. The team members with certification as well as those without will be
required to attend this initial program.
Members interested in a Haz Mat Team assignment must agree to participate
in the required training and agree to fill any position on the team when qualified.
Members must be certified to recetve stipend (pass test, maintain
certification, annual recertification, medical screening).
The NFR will trarn adequate members in order to maintain a regular five-
member Haz Mat team available on a daily basis.
In the event more members sign for the team than this pre-determined
staffing allows, the member with the most seniority will be allowed to continue in
the training process for certification and regular assignment, provided medical
screening shows qualified.
The NFR will retain the right to make assignments, regular and alternate, to
the team based on seniority. The City and the Union have mutually agreed on a
method to fill Haz Mat Team assignments, which is shown in Appendix E.
REQUIRED:
There must be adequate personnel (members and alternates) trained by this
procedure to the Technician level to maintain the regular team.
All future Technician level members will first be designated as alternates.
In order to assure a ready pool of available Technician-level personnel,
during the annual recertification process, the NFR will continue to train adequate
additional personnel to fill any vacancies which may occur on the Haz Mat team.
However, if at any time the number of trained and available team members falls
below thirty (30), a posting for the vacant positions will occur within two (2)
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