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Handler

The handler is a person who has successfully completed a documented training and certification process in canine handling in the specific discipline of ignitible liquid canine detection and maintains those abilities through field application, maintenance training, scheduled recertification, and continuing education. (See 3.4.2, Certification.) [SC1, 2011].

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
NFPA 921:2021 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA, 2021. Source link