COURSE OVERVIEW

Confront spills, leaks, and pressure hazards from cryogenic liquids and gases. Students examine storage, transfer, and failure indicators, learning containment, isolation, and personal protection techniques. Through tabletop and live scenarios, they assess vapor expansion, frostbite risk, and equipment compatibility. The course emphasizes rapid hazard evaluation and decision-making when working with extremely cold substances in both fixed and transportation settings.

Through real-world case studies, demonstrations, and scenario-based discussions, this course focuses on how cryogenic conditions change material behavior, system performance, and risk to responders. Students work through oxygen displacement environments, cylinder and system failures, and venting events—learning how to interpret what they’re seeing, where to meter, and why standard assumptions often break down. 

This course satisfies the following requirements: OSHA 1910.120; NFPA 45, 400, 470, 472, 473, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999; ISO 17840-1:2022