Office of Hazardous Materials Safety

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety U.S. Department of Transportation Washington, DC Larry Gephart... 

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), is responsible for the safe and secure movement of hazardous materials by all transportation modes. The primary office within PHMSA responsible for transportation safety and security is the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety. In addition to PHMSA, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration within U.S. DOT are involved in transportation safety and security. 

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration Office of Hazardous Materials Safety http //www.dot.gov/ http //www.phmsa.dot.gov/ http //hazmat.dot.gov/... 

The Office of Hazardous Materials safety (HAZMAT) is a branch of the United States Department of Transportation. Their mission is to minimize the risks to life and property inherent in the commercial transportation of hazardous materials. To that end, HAZMAT sponsors a variety of training courses across the U.S. These include 1-2 day seminars and longer courses designed to certify technicians in a wide variety of areas. Online at http //hazmat.dot.gov/training/training.htm. 

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Summary of Incidents, http //hazmat.dot.gov/ files/summary/9899/brindex98.hlm. 

Hazardous Materials Shipments, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Research and Special Programs Administration, US Dept of Transportation (DOT), Washington, DC, Oct 1998. 

INSTRUCTIONS Submit this report to the Informatioo Systems Marrager, U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline arnl Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, DHM, Washington, D.C. 20590 0001. If space provided for any item is inadequate, use a separate sheet of paper, identifying the entry number being completed. Copies of this form and instructions can be obtained from the Office of Hazardous Materials Website at httpy/hazmat.dot.gov. If you haw any questions, you can contact the Hazardous Materials Information Center at 1-800-HMR-4922 (1-809467-4922) or online at http7/hazmat.dotgov. 

Department of Transportation Office of Hazardous Materials Safety... 

CDCIR, JRC, Ispra (I)—Tel +39-332-789244, Fax +39-332-789007, e-mail claudio.camevali jic.it. -U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, hazmatdotgov/spills.htm. 

The Office of Hazards Materials Safety in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in the U.S. Department of Transportation (2005), has issued Risk Management Definitions from which the following definition is taken. 

PHMSA is comprised of two divisions, the Office of Pipeline Safety and the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety. 

Back KC et al Reclassification of Materials Listed as Transportation Health Hazards, Report TSA-20-72-3, pp 24-25. A-264 to A-265. Washington DC, Department of Transportation, Office of Hazardous Materials, Office of Assistant Secretary for Safety and Consumer Affairs, 1972... 

A useful source of data on the safety record of the transportation of expls is the Office of Hazardous Materials News, Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. A European collection of data on industry connected accidents is said to have been collected by Dr Karl Trautzl (Ref 44). The Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board has issued two series of publications (Ref 26). The first are the proceedings of the Annual Explosives Safety Seminars. The second publication series are the abstracts of expl accidents. These reports are submitted voluntarily by both government and industry and are complete with descriptions of causes, damage and casualties. Incidents related to the Fireworks industry are reported annually in the Fire Journal (Ref 64)... 

These questions stress the point we emphasize here. Again, OSHA is not normally concerned about the environment, unless contamination of the environment (at the work site) might adversely impact the workers safety and health. The neighbors Again, OSHA s focus is the workers. One OSHA compliance officer explained to us that if the employer takes every necessary step to protect the employees from harm involving the use or production of hazardous materials, then the surrounding community should have little to fear. 

Collection of chemical carcinogens, all waste products, animal carcasses and other materials from the laboratory should be performed by designated personnel on a scheduled basis or when necessary. The suspect or carcinogenic materials should not be placed on uncontrolled loading docks for pickup by general refuse collection personnel. At the National Institutes of Health, the special collection of hazardous materials, including chemical carcinogens, is done by personnel of the Fire Department. In the instance of one of the NCI contractor sites, Frederick Cancer Research Center, located at a military post, personnel from the safety offices perform this service. 

Sax (1968), 208—26 (Storage and handling of hazardous materials) 3) Anon, DOD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards , Office of the Asst Secretary of Defense, Installations Logistics, DOD 4145.27M (March 1969), 3-1 to 3-14 (Principles and application of quantity-distances, standard explosives facilities and siting requirements) 4) Anon, Safety—... 

Major elements of a CHP plan include listing of responsibilities for employers, employees, and a chemical hygiene officer. Also among the items that have to be covered in the plan is the stipulation that every laboratory must have a complete chemical inventory that is updated annually. A copy of the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), which defines each chemical as toxic, carcinogenic, or dangerous, must be on file and readily accessible and available to aU employees 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The MSDS contains important information for the benefit of laboratory employees. The chemical manufacturer s information as supplied on the MSDS is used to ascertain whether a certain chemical is hazardous. Each MSDS must give the product s... 

Mr. Ellison is president of Cerberus Associates, Inc. and as a private consultant, has responded to both transportation and fixed facility hazardous material incidents throughout the state of Michigan. He has acted as incident commander, safety officer, and response specialist at scenes involving chemical fires, water reactive materials, and shock sensitive materials. He has provided chemical and biological counterterrorism training to members of hazardous materials (HazMat) teams, police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, and Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) teams. 

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... 

A federal regulation enacted in 1968 that provided for federal government authority over interstate pipelines transporting hazardous liquids and natural gas. The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) was formed under the Department of Transportation (DOT) to set minimum safety standards for design, construction, inspection, testing, operation, and maintenance, as well as to perform inspections and enforce regulations. See also Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Pipeline Safety Regulations. 

The Pearson Correlation Coefficient can be used to determine if a relationship exists between two variables—both of which are continuous in nature. Examples of safety performance data that can be analyzed can include the number of lost workdays for an injured employee and the years of experience on the job, the concentrations of hazardous materials in the air, and the number of visits to the nurses office, etc. In addition to the requirement for both variables to be continuous, the following additional... 

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