The training facility must ensure that all equipment
necessary for practice of performance skills identified in the commission's
Curriculum Manual or Curriculum Skills Manual is available in sufficient
quantity for use by trainees. The minimum equipment required for conducting
training is identified in the Equipment List found in each discipline chapter
within the Texas Commission on Fire Protection (TCFP) Curriculum Manual.
(1) All Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
(SCBA) that will be used during the course of instruction for a commission
approved fire protection personnel training program shall comply with §
435.3 of this title (relating to
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus). This rule applies whether the SCBA is
provided by the academy or the trainee. If instruction in the use of
self-contained breathing apparatus is a part of the training, then
self-contained breathing apparatus in sufficient numbers shall be provided to
enable each trainee to wear the equipment for at least the life of one
breathing air tank during the training. If a trainee will be subjected to a
hazardous atmosphere or where the atmosphere is unknown, the trainee shall be
provided with a self-contained breathing apparatus. (Note: All self-contained
breathing apparatus used by a certified training facility and the air used in
self-contained breathing apparatus must comply with §
435.3 of this title (relating to
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus). This rule applies whether the
self-contained breathing apparatus is provided by the academy or the trainee.
All students, instructors, safety personnel, and other personnel participating
in any evolution or operation of fire suppression during the live fire training
shall breathe from an SCBA air supply whenever operating under one or more of
the following conditions:
(A) in any
atmosphere that is oxygen deficient or contaminated by products of combustion,
or both;
(B) in any atmosphere that
is suspected of being oxygen deficient or contaminated by products of
combustion, or both;
(C) in any
atmosphere that can become oxygen deficient or contaminated, or both;
and/or
(D) below ground
level;
(2) standard
classroom equipment to include appropriate instructional aids and the use of
cutaways, models, flip charts, and other visual aids are recommended to enhance
effectiveness of the instruction; and
(3) other equipment, which may include
training simulators, training aids, clothing and tools required by the
applicable training program.
Notes
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Tex. Admin. Code §
427.9
The provisions of
this §427.9 adopted to be effective November 1, 1998, 23 TexReg 10895;
amended to be effective October 11, 2000, 25 TexReg 10187; amended to be
effective January 27, 2002, 27 TexReg 481; amended to be effective May 26,
2005, 30 TexReg 3033; Amended by
Texas
Register, Volume 43, Number 19, May 11, 2018, TexReg
3104, eff.
5/20/2018; Amended
by
Texas
Register, Volume 48, Number 15, April 14, 2023, TexReg
1962, eff.
4/23/2023
