Our Continuing Challenge HazMat Workshop has been cancelled
Fellow Responders,
The Continuing Challenge Hazardous Materials Committee regrets to announce that we are cancelling the 2020 HazMat Workshop in September. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in new Federal, State and Municipal constraints on travel and training budgets making a successful Workshop impossible.
Though we will be unable to “get the family together” this September, we are currently investigating the possibility of providing you training in a virtual format in the coming months as the shelter in place orders and slashed budgets continue. We will keep you updated via our Newsletter, this Website and Email as to what that might look like.
If you have registered and paid already, you will receive a refund. If you have already made a reservation for a sleeping room at the Double Tree or some other hotel, you will need to call and cancel. The hotel will not do that automatically.
The Workshop will be back in September of 2021. We look forward to seeing you then, and hope that you and your families stay safe and healthy as you serve the public.
Thank you,
The Continuing Challenge Hazardous Materials Committee
Let the countdown begin to 2021
Ellen Dempsey took this picture and was awarded 1st place in the Continuing Challenge HazMat Photo Contest for 2020.
Stinger operation performed by Contra Costa Health Services, Hazardous Materials Programs in response to an 9,000 gallon overturned gasoline tanker during a mutual aid for the Marin County JPA HazMat team.
The annual Continuing Challenge Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Workshop began in 1990 for the purpose of providing training, networking, and hands-on learning opportunities for all employees in hazardous materials emergency response-related fields of employment. Each year the first week of September, we bring together prominent and skilled presenters who volunteer to provide our students with the most recent information available to enhance or grow skills critical to ensure a safe and effective response. Featured are exciting classroom courses, hands-on sessions, and contests to test new skills.
