The Meter Guys Air Monitoring For First Responders

This course focuses on the First Responder and how to use a meter properly, understand the readings they see, and the implications of such on emergency responses.  It is estimated that a majority of first responders can turn a meter on but have no idea what the readings mean when it alarms, nor the knowledge of the changing situation as a meter begins to register readings putting them at significant risk.
Today’s First Responder training is deficient in Air Monitoring and the use of the basic 4-Gas meter, at all levels of Awareness, Operations and Technician training courses. The Meter Guys Air Monitoring course is designed to fill this void and bring quality SME training to your organization.  Students will participate in Lecture, Case Studies, and Hands-On meter training involving DOT transported chemicals. Upon completion of this course the First Responder will learn about calibration and bump testing importance, and peak readings, STEL, and fresh air calibration.
Through our program the student will learn about each individual sensor in the 4-Gas Meter (LEL, O2, CO, H2S) so they better understand what their meter is telling them while on an emergency response on highway tanker accidents, as well as gas leaks, confined space, CO and other calls where first responder safety could be at risk. They will understand and physically experience the meter alarms during the course with meters that are brought with us for your First Responders to use. We also will be happy to review your meters during this class. By bringing our own meters we spare you the problem of having to recalibrate your meters due to the amount of chemicals we expose the meters to during class. If you want us to use your meters during the class, we will be happy to do so understanding your meters will need calibration at the end of the class.

This course is not designed to make the First Responder (Awareness/Operations) an offensive responder but to better prepare the member to detect the presence of danger to ensure the safety of their crew and the public. Furthermore, The Meter Guys instills the need for air monitoring to promote safety and health and help prevent Firefighter Cancers.
This course is a self-contained course in which we arrive with everything to teach the class. Many classes require the host to provide equipment for the training. Frequently, this equipment is not usable for teaching, it is in ill repair, does not work, has dead batteries, hasn’t been calibrated, etc. and the list goes on.  Many departments have very few meters which hampers training, this course shows why they need a meter, and how to use it! Furthermore, if your department does not have meters this provides an opportunity for you to learn more about them and hopefully justify why you need meters on your rigs.
With this concept the Meter Guys are committed to there being 1-2 students at the most per meter.  We have watched many training classes with 4-8 students plus huddled around one meter at a table.  This type of training is not conducive to learning how to use a lifesaving piece of equipment and why we bring our cache of meters to you for training.