HAZMAT Diving Medical Monitoring

[akdeepdiver]

For PST teams that occasionally dive in contaminated water/HAZMAT scenarios here is a question. Do you do Pre and post medical monitoring of your divers and Decon personnel? I am on a HAZMAT team and we were thinking of doing some joint training, but wanted to see if it was even applicable.

 

[Jared0425]

If we plan before hand to do a contaminated environment, then we get the shots. If we get called to a contaminated area on short notice, we do everything we can ourselves to ensure we are protected. If our protection is breached in certain conditions, then it's 3 shots and off to the ER. That's has been the experience before I got onto the dive team. HAZMAT teams has joined us before on some callouts and practices, but the routine is different than what we are used to on the dive team.

 

[Malpaso]

I've done EPA missions as a medic and you should absolutely baseline every responder, and recheck after every entry.