Pordecon™

Pordecon Hazmat Tank Design and Usage Features

The Pordecon™ decontamination tank has been used by Fire Department, Industrial and Military Hazmat Teams, Hospital Emergency Rooms, Chemical Manufacturers and Hazmat Training Facilities worldwide for over 20 years!

The Pordecon™ was designed and patented by a Professional Firefighter / Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team member who understood that using children wading pools may have been cost effective but was inappropriate for several reasons...

Children's pools are designed for children to play in, not to collect hazardous materials runoff created from the personnel decontamination process.

Blow up pools have a history of leaking through the seams and are typically constructed of only .04 ml thick PVC. This minimal thickness provides minimal protection against both puncture or seam failure.

Blow-up pools have a history of having leaks that can create the risk of producing contaminated runoff at an incident that your trying to minimize, not make worse.

Blow-up pools typically develop leaks along seams and in areas that are stressed which results in deflated pools.

Molded plastic pools are bulky and take up valuable storage room.

The smaller the size of the decontamination tank, the less the disposal costs.

Imagine collapsing a molded plastic pool into a recovery drum?

One complete Pordecon™ Tank, which includes both the Pordecon™ Liner and Frame, fits easily into one five-gallon plastic bucket.

Most of the children wading pools are made overseas in Taiwan or China, NOT in the USA like the Pordecon™ Portable Decontamination Tank System.

There are many pieces of equipment that are used with the Pordecon Tank. The number of Pordecon Tanks and the amount of equipment used is dependent upon the type of decontamination that is needed. 

Collecting the run-off from the decontamination process can include a minimum of one tank for simple gross decontamination or can include several for larger scale incidents that require gross decontamination, neutralization and a final rinse.  

There is a major difference between decontaminating civilians verses emergency responders in protective clothing. 

Ambulatory and Non-Ambulatory patients should always be provided a separate area for performing hazardous materials decontamination to minimize exposure to civilians.

Level A Protective Clothing can include as much as a pint of hazardous material dependent upon the viscosity and volume of the material.

Run-off collected during the hazmat decontamination process should always be tested to confirm or deny the presence and quantity of hazardous materials.

After gross decontamination has occurred, ambulatory patients should be afforded the opportunity to wash themselves in privacy. 

Hot water, soap, towels and a change of clothing should be collected and made available long before a chemical accident occurs.

Gloves

The Pordecon™ easily accommodates the typical size of a back board to capture runoff from non-ambulatory patient decontamination.

Typical EMS backboards are longer than six-feet which is the outside dimension of the Pordecon™ when it is set up. 

When dealing with non-ambulatory patients then you'll want to add a couple of PVC sawhorses, setting them up on the outside of the Pordecon™ Frame. 

Runoff from non-ambulatory patient decontamination can be collected and tested using the Hazcat Unknown Chemical Testing process to confirm or deny the presence of hazardous materials..