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USDOT Announces Updated
Hazmat Emergency
Guidebook
By: U.S. Department of Transportation
he U.S. Department said PHMSA Administrator
of Transportation’s Skip Elliott. “Hazmat incidents
TPipeline and Hazardous present a range of safety The
Materials Safety Administration challenges and responders ERG is available to
(PHMSA) today announced the need to know exactly what public safety agencies in all
publication of the 2020 edition they’re dealing with.” states and territories for free
of its Emergency Response The ERG contains an through designated state
Guidebook (ERG), providing indexed list of dangerous emergency management
first responders with a newly goods and their associated coordinators’ offices. PHMSA
revised go-to manual that offers ID numbers, general hazards has partnered with the National
guidance on what to do during they pose, and recommended Library of Medicine to provide
the critical first 30 minutes of a safety precautions. PHMSA the ERG as a free mobile app.
hazmat transportation accident. will distribute more than 1.8 Print copies of ERG2020
“PHMSA is proud to produce million copies of the guidebook are available for sale to the
and distribute a new and to firefighters, emergency general public through the U.S.
improved iteration of this critical medical technicians and law Government Printing Office
safety resource for emergency enforcement officers across the Bookstore at http://bookstore.
responders across the nation,” nation. gpo.gov.
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