Hazardous Materials Transport Articles
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Walk-Through Metal Detectors in Transportation Hubs: Ensuring Passenger Safety
Walk-Through Metal Detectors in Transportation Hubs: Ensuring Passenger Safety Transportation hubs, such as airports, train stations, and bus terminals, are bustling centers of activity where thousands of passengers embark on journeys every day. The safety and security of passengers within these hubs are of paramount importance to transportation authorities and government agencies. This article ...
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What Are Hazmat Training Requirements?
Chemicals play a crucial role in various aspects of our lives, from purifying water and powering vehicles to constructing structures, fertilizing crops, producing medicines, manufacturing garments, and many more. Nonetheless, the transportation of chemicals and such hazardous materials inherently poses certain risks to people, the environment, and structures, thus requiring proper management. For ...
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What Is Hazmat Training & Do You Need It?
Hazmat training is a term that describes the training and knowledge required for handling hazardous materials. Hazmat training is optional for many jobs, but there are certain situations where it’s necessary to have this kind of knowledge. Since hazardous materials can be dangerous if mishandled, it’s critical that employees who work with them be able to handle them safely. Hazmat ...
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Correctly choosing and installing expansion joints
For any industrial application which includes piping or ducting, expansion joints are a critical component. With a huge variety of materials and designs to choose from, the correct selection and optimal installation of expansion joints is vital to ensure safe and reliable operations. Industrial and commercial installations which feature any kind of pumping, piping or ducting will also almost ...
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Five Safety Tips for People who Work in the Chemical Industry
In 2019 the county of Houston and the state of Texas jointly filed suit in a county court against Mitsui & Co’s Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) alleging that violations of environmental laws were behind a massive fuel tank fire that burned there for days. This catastrophic event resulted in tons of toxins being released into the atmosphere and surrounding waterways. Because we ...
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Hazardous Materials Transportation - The Dangers
There are many possible dangers that can result from accidents involving hazardous materials transportation Our Hazardous Materials Transportation guide explains the potential risk factors and the many possible dangers that can result in accidents occurring via their transportation. The risk factors are categorised by the United Nations under 9 hazard classes: Explosives Gases Flammable ...
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How can detergent production flow more smoothly? - Case Study
Farabi, Saudi Arabia, Petrochemicals Did you know: ANDRITZ is the only supplier who could design and install a complete dewatering and drying production line for a petrochemical manufacturer in Saudia Arabia, guaranteeing a safe and seamless solution for production of a new Linear Alkyl Benzene product for detergent manufacturing. When it comes to producing detergent chemicals, ...
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PHMSA Study Will Assess Aligning U.S. and International Regulations for Aerosol Containers
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) routinely reviews and amends the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to harmonize the HMR with international regulations and standards. In February 2019, PHMSA’s Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS) contracted with the Cambridge Systematics (CS) Team to conduct a risk ...
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Harmony’s 60″ Recycling Balers
Why you might need a 60″ recycling baler You own a business. Businesses create cardboard, paper, plastic, and aluminum waste. Removing waste from your building is time consuming and costs money. (Not removing it could even be more costly with fire and safety hazards!) Having waste hauled away from your location is also expensive. If you are not currently recycling commodities like ...
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When do you need a CDL for Towing a Trailer?
While requirements for obtaining a commercial driver’s license (CDL) may vary slightly from state to state, the federal regulations are universal covering interstate transportation of cargo. This includes cargo that originates or terminates out of state even if you pick up and or deliver it in your state. Here are a few of the basic CDL license requirements for towing a trailer, as well as ...
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Are Universal Wastes DOT Regulated?
The answer is yes, no, and maybe. Under the DOT regulations, hazardous wastes are regulated in all modes (ground, air, rail, vessel) of transportation. EPA has classified specific hazardous waste as Universal Waste to streamline the process and encourage recycling of these materials (see 40 CFR 273). EPA has specifically addressed the DOT requirements for these waste at 40 CFR 273.52 as ...
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Compliance Corner - Develop and implement
On March 25, 2003, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an emergency revision to the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) relating to security training and security planning for transporters and offerors (shippers) of hazardous materials (hazmat). DOT recognised a need to address growing concerns over the significant threat that hazmat can pose when it is used for malicious or ...
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America West Airlines On Board with 3E Compliance Management Services
Background In a time when most airlines are struggling with the sluggish economy and decreased passenger demand, America West has seen steady growth. With operational hubs in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the airline has expanded its route system to 93 destinations, including four in Canada and 12 in Mexico, and has become the second largest low-fare carrier in the U.S. America West has more than ...
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Southwest Airlines’ Compliance Management Soars with 3E
Southwest Airlines aims to use its 436 (and growing) colorful planes to safely move over 70 million Customers and 288 million pounds of cargo annually. That cargo and Customer baggage can contain all types of materials in them including clothing, paperwork, birthday presents, food stuffs and many other commercial products. Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) are not allowed on Southwest Airlines (with ...
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Compliance Corner - Record retention
In the course of a dangerous good shipment, a shipper’s declaration is created and needs to be stored as it contains information used to protect the safety of individuals, businesses and the environment. This shipping paper must be maintained for a given period of time depending on the method of shipment. There are also similar record retention requirements for dangerous good training ...
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SeNsiM-SEC: secure sensor networks integration to monitor rail freight transport
In recent years, the interest in monitoring infrastructures has spread in many application domains, even because of the number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. This important activity can be seen in the general context of critical infrastructure protection, such as the freight trains meant for hazardous materials transportation. The design of these systems must answer to several ...
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Quantification of the number of injured people due to hazardous material accidents
Accidents with hazardous materials may threaten the lives of people living in the direct environment of the transportation infrastructure. In many countries, fire brigades play a major role in advising the authorities when they are dealing with issues where hazardous materials are involved. Since emergency responders have to deal with injured persons, information concerning the number of injured ...
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Managing compliance: Spotlight on MSDS and labels
The world of chemical regulatory compliance is growing in complexity. For organizations evaluating, producing, storing, using or transporting products that contain regulated materials, accessing and understanding the information necessary to maintain the highest levels of compliance is no small or simple task. As product sourcing and formulations proliferate and organizations expand into new ...
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Sustainability framework for hazardous materials transport route planning
Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) transport is a vital logistic activity from the supply of raw materials to production units. However, there are risks associated with trucks being involved in accidents during HAZMAT shipment. It is essential that all criteria and factors involved need to be considered prior to HAZMAT transport decision making. The main purpose of this paper is to present a HAZMAT ...
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Managing compliance: New Year, new compliance challenges
Environment, health and safety regulations are increasing in volume and complexity, which in turn makes the associated compliance tasks increasingly difficult to manage. The risks and costs of non-compliance are rising as the regulatory environment becomes more challenging. Compliance needs are pervasive and persistent across all geographical jurisdictions and vertical industries. Today's EHS ...
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