HAZMAT Awareness Series Package (IFSTA)

HAZMAT Awareness Series Package (IFSTA) bundles ATS's 2-title HAZMAT Awareness video series with the matching International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) hazardous-materials textbook line, and SkillsTrain, the authorised Action Training Systems (ATS) distributor in South Africa, supplies it locally. The two titles are HAZMAT Recognition and HAZMAT Identification, the entry-level awareness pathway a responder completes before any response-level HAZMAT training begins.

HAZMAT Recognition teaches the four basic clues a responder uses to notice that a hazardous material may be present, drawn from the type of occupancy, the containers in use, their markings and the senses, and it covers the kinds of occupancies where such materials are commonly stored. HAZMAT Identification then builds on that, teaching the nine hazard classes defined by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), DOT transport marking signs, how to use the Emergency Response Guidebook, and how to read the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 704 marking system on fixed facilities. Together the two titles give a responder several ways to identify a hazard from a safe distance before any containment or decontamination work begins.

Both halves of this package are aligned to NFPA 470 and positioned for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) awareness-level content. ATS does not publish a separate marketing description for this packaged stock-keeping unit (SKU) beyond the series name and the publisher pairing, so SkillsTrain's role is simply to confirm what is included and supply it, not to write or accredit either half.

A matching package pairs the same 2-title video series with a Jones and Bartlett (J&B) Public Safety Group textbook line instead.

Who it is for: academies already running an IFSTA hazardous-materials manual who want the correlating ATS Awareness video series alongside it, rather than selecting video and text from different publishers.