DART DUCT is an multi-person damage and utility control team composed of facility craft personnel such as plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, and electricians. Responsibilities include responding to Ames/Moffett Field facility and infrastructure emergencies, support for DART collapse structure rescue operations, and providing support to DART hazardous materials response operations.

Point of Contact: DART Damage and Utility Control Team Lead —
, 650-604-3320

• Organization
• Training Requirements & Certifications

DART DUCT personnel train as required to retain their certifications as hazardous materials response industrial technicians. They must also participate in at least four major functional exercises each year. In addition to their hazardous materials response training, they are expected to retain they required level of expertise in the craft in which they work.

Organization:

• Assistance Chief
• Safety Officer
• Logistics Officer
• Medical Officer
• Team Leaders

Training Requirements and Certifications:

Damage and Utility Control Team (DUCT) personnel are required to be trained and certified to the hazardous materials technician level. The initial training requirement to achieve certification is approximately sixty hours. A twenty-four hour annual re-certification class is required. In addition to HazMat technician training, personnel must be proficient in the use of tools. Tools such as, high pressure airbags, jackhammers, chain saws, concrete saws, nail guns, oxyacetylene torches, and the jaws-of-life. At least eight hours of tool training is required quarterly.

Certifications:

• Levels A, B, C, and D Chemical Protective Clothing
• Confined Space entry
• Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Industry Technician Certification (Title 19 CCR, Div. 2, Chap. 1, Subchap. 2, Sec. 2520)
• Monitoring Equipment and Detection Devices (e.g. Combustible Gas Indicator)
• Adult Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Standard First Aid & Respirator
• Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)

Annual Drills and Exercises:

DUCT members are required to participate in at least one annual functional exercise. Functional exercises nominally take four to six hours. During functional exercises, members of DUCT may be called on to work with DART Rescue, DART HazMat, as well as perform their primary damage and utility control functions.