Chemical Emergency Transportation System

Chemical Emergency Transportation System (CHEiMTREC) to provide immediate information on chemical transportation emergencies. 

CMA established the Chemical Emergency Transportation System (CHEMTREC) to provide immediate information on chemical transportation emergencies. In 1980 this was recognized by the Department of Transportation as the central service for such emergencies. 

Mexico SETIQ (Emergency Transportation System for the Chemical Industry) National Association of Chemical Industries (ANIQ) 01-800-00-214-00 in the Mexican Republic 5559-1588 for calls originating in Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area... 

To combat attacks with fast-acting agents in the terminals, continuous visual surveillance of densely populated areas and observation of behavior patterns may be as useful as any detector. The TSA should study the feasibility of the widespread deployment of surveillance cameras in populated areas, coupled with behavioral-pattern-recognition software, as an alternative to chemical agent detectors. Such cameras could also provide a dual-use value in improving the overall security environment. In addition, many critical nodes in the air transportation system (control rooms, emergency-response centers, and so on) are supplied with air that is recirculated from publicly accessible areas this makes them vulnerable to being disabled by the release of... 

In addition to the transition phenomena mentioned so far in the present section, a variety of even larger scale processes might have operated during chemical evolution, namely, instabilities and bifurcations in the very atmospheric environment within which life emerged. As shown in the paper by Marcel Nicolet, the earth s atmosphere is the theater of a variety of complex chemical and transport phenomena. Moreover, as explained by Stanley L. Miller, the composition of the primordial atmosphere has certainly affected deeply the chemistry in the primitive oceans. Conversely, once life emerged the properties of the atmosphere changed radically, and this must have affected the further course of evolution. We refer to Prather et al.41 and North et al.42 for an account of present views on large scale transitions in the earth-atmosphere system. 

Chemical emergencies may result from industrial explosions, transportation accidents, police actions involving tear gas, or the intentional use of chemicals as agents of war by terrorists. The reiease of a chemical into the environment creates a HAZMAT incident that poses unique challenges for the health care system and for those individuals who participate in the response. Victims who are chemically contaminated must be decontaminated, preferably before being brought to the hos-... 

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, passed in 1975, is the primary law governing transportation of chemicals and hazardous materials. The act includes a comprehensive assessment of the regulations, information systems, container safety, and training for emergency response and enforcement. The regulations apply to any person who transports, or causes to be transported or shipped, a hazardous material or who manufactures, fabricates, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a package or container which is represented, marked, certified, or sold by such person for use in the transportation in commerce of certain hazardous materials. ... 

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