Hazardous Materials Transportation: A Guide to Success for Environmental Health & Safety Students and Professionals

The transportation of hazardous materials is vital to our modern world. Thanks to hazmat we have modern medicine a robust food supply technological advances like microchips cleaning products to kill bacteria and viruses that can make us sick and so much more.As Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professionals what we do saves lives. We help families stay whole and healthy with safe work practices we help our environment remain clean and resilient by keeping materials safe during transportation and we help improve the way of life for millions by safely manufacturing storing transporting and disposing of the chemicals that fuel our modern world. Nearly every aspect of our lives today owes at least part of its existence to hazmat so we can never be rid of it. Therefore we must learn to manage it safely and always do better than we did yesterday. We must learn from our mistakes and failures build on our achievements and always be willing to learn more.This book is meant to serve as a comprehensive introduction to both graduate and undergraduate EHS students preparing to embark on this exciting and important career as well as a resource for EHS professionals already doing this work. Transportation is one of the most vulnerable points in the hazmat supply chain but its often treated as an afterthought. Its time we give it the attention it deserves and that we seek out the best most effective ways to move hazmat safely efficiently and affordably. Weve taken a complex topic and made it approachable and easy to understand with everyday language. This highly usable guide will help you to confidently classify and name hazmat; select assemble fill and close packagings; mark label and placard packages; fill out shipping papers and supply emergency response information; offer placards to drivers; and load and unload motor vehicles and rail cars. We cover the DOTs administrative requirements like training and documentation incident reporting written security plans registration triggers and more. Youll even learn how to take advantage of money- and time-saving exceptions. And we point out common pitfalls to avoid so youll stay in compliance and avoid fines and penalties.This is the only resource youll need outside the Code of Federal Regulations to expertly perform your hazmat functions. The guide is chock full of visual aids such as graphs charts examples tables excerpts from the regulations and real-life photos to demonstrate and support the content. Each section includes regulatory references to help you easily locate source information and research further details when desired. Its also well annotated with additional background information to give you everything youll need to be a successful hazmat shipper. I wish you great success on your journey into the ever-changing never boring world of hazardous materials.