Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety

Zou Zongfeng, et al. 2011. Research Status and Development Trend of Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Management. China Safety Science Journal. 21(6) 129-135 (in Chinese). 

Employed on a full-time, part time, or temporaiy basis by a hazmat employer and who in the course of such fiill time, part time, or temporary employment directly affects hazardous materials transportation safety ... 

Community Teamwork Working Together to Promote Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety. U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC, May 1983. 

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) oversees pipeline and hazardous materials transportation safety. The administration oversees the nations pipeline infrastructure, which accounts for 64% of energy commodities consumed in the United States. The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) functions as the safety authority for the nation s 2.3 million miles of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. The office administers a national regulatory program to ensure the safe pipeline transportation of natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and hazardous liquids by pipeline. The Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act of 1996 requires that OPS adopt rules requiring interstate gas pipeline operators to provide maps of their facilities to the governing body of each municipality in which a pipeline traverses. 

Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety and Security Reauthorization Act of 2005,... 

Facilities Reviews There are many lands of facilities reviews that are useful in detec ting and preventing process safety problems. They include pre-start-up reviews (before the plant operates), new-plant reviews (the plant has started, but is stiU new), reviews of existing plants (safety, technology, and operations audits and reviews), management reviews, critical instrument reviews, and hazardous materials transportation reviews. 

Many adhesives- and sealants-related activities present significant process safety risks. These activities include chemical processing, material manufacturing welding and hazardous materials transportation. When accidents occur in connection with these or other activities, individuals and employers are exposed to potential civil and criminal liabilities. 

Personnel. More than any other area, we are often asked "How many people has your corporation added due to TSCA " I don t know of anyone who has a concise answer to this question. Complicating the situation is the fact that the 1960 s and 1970 s saw a number of environmental and health laws go into effect the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, TSCA, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, to mention the major ones. This mixture of acts, with some similarities of purpose, developing within a time span of 10-15 years, has made a variety of similar demands. It is not easy at this point to attribute the addition of staff support personnel to an individual law such as TSCA. The same observation is applicable to all corporate resources which have felt the effects of TSCA however, in order to... 

The PSA of 1987 is currently promulgated by the DOT Office of Pipeline Safety under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act as summarized in Table 2.3. Petroleum releases are addressed under 40 CFR Part 195 which is subdivided into six subparts (Subparts A through F). Although these regulations apply to pipeline facilities and the transportation of hazardous liquids associated with those facilities in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, they do not apply to transportation of hazardous liquids via the following ... 

William R. Rhyne received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia. Dr. Rhyne is currently an independent consultant and earlier cofounded H R Technical Associates, Inc., where he remains a member of the board of directors. He has extensive experience in risk and safety analyses associated with nuclear and chemical processes and with the transport of hazardous nuclear materials and chemicals. From 1984 to 1987, he was the project manager and principal investigator for a probabilistic accident analysis of transporting obsolete chemical munitions. Dr. Rhyne has authored or coauthored numerous publications and reports in nuclear and chemical safety and risk analysis areas and is author of the book Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Analysis Quantitative Approaches for Truck and Train. He is a former member of the NRC Transportation Research Board Hazardous Materials Committee, the Society for Risk Assessment, the American Nuclear... 

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. ... 

The Mine Safety and Health Act The Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act The Coastal Zone Management Act The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act... 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodentid.de Act Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act Hazardous Materials Transportation Act National Environmental Policy Act Occupational Safety and Health Act Resource Conservation and Recoveiy Act Safe Drinking Water Act Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act Toxic Substances Control Act... 

Each year, statistics on causes and occupancies of fires and deaths resulting from fire are compiled and published. NFPA sponsors seminars on the Life Safety Codes, National Electrical Code, industrial fire protection, hazardous materials, transportation emergencies, and other related topics. NFPA also conducts research programs on delivery systems for public fire protection, arson, residential fire sprinkler systems, and other subjects. NFPA publications include National Fire Codes Annual, Fire Protection Handbook, Fire Journal and Fire Technology. 

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act Dangerous Cargo Act Federal Coal Mining Safety Health Act Federal Food Drug Cosmetic Act Federal Insecticide, Fungicide Rodent Act Federal Water Pollution Control Act Hazardous Materials Transport Act Occupational Safety and Health Act Safe Drinking Water Act Toxic Substance Control Act... 

All members of the supply chain should have primary management systems in place to address comphance with all applicable regulations and implementation of additional programs and practices to manage the safety and security of hazardous material transportation activities. An overall transportation safety and security management system is recommended to assist in ... 

In the United States, the Department of Transportation (U S. DOT) is the primary regulatory body for transportation-related regulations. The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) authorizes U.S. DOT to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has responsibihty for safe and secure movement of hazardous materials by all transportation modes, with the exception of bulk marine shipments. PHMSA establishes the following hazardous materials regulations, which are contained in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) ... 

The site-level health and safety manager was given notice from corporate for the need to conduct the qualitative risk analysis of the plant s hazardous material transportation operations. The safety manager was provided with a questiotmaire regarding all chemicals of concern, shipping quantities, modes of transit, and the route characteristics (similar to the checklist found in Table 4.2). This information was transmitted back to corporate for analysis, which included a corporate-level comparison to the other XYZ Chemical facihties risk results. Based on the information collected at the site level, the following was determined and reviewed by corporate for this facility ... 

John C. Allen is vice president of transportation at Battelle Memorial Institute. Prior to joining Battelle in 1983, he served as transportation economist and policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation s Office of Hazardous Materiel Transportation. Mr. Allen has managed and participated in numerous studies involving the policy, regulatory, institutional, and safety aspects of transporting hazardous and nuclear materials. He has served on various National Research Council (NRC) advisory panels and has been chairman of the Transportation Research Board s Committee on Hazardous Materials Transportation for more than... 

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1975 (HMTA) and the 1990 Hazardous Materials Uniform Safety Act were promulgated to protect the public from risks associated with the movement of potentially dangerous materials on roads, in the air, and on waterways. They do not pertain to the movement of materials within a facility. Anyone who transports or causes to be transported a hazardous material is subject to these regulations, as is anyone associated with the production or modification of containers for hazardous materials. Enforcement of the HMTA is delegated to the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railway Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Research and Special Programs Administration (for enforcement of packaging rules). 

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