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Your Hazmat Route Goes Out of Service. What Now?

4/29/2024

Your Hazmat Route Goes Out of Service. What Now?

Shippers of hazardous materials play an important role in ensuring hazmat is transported safely. When a hazmat route goes out of service, life gets harder.
Hazmat Video Essentials: The 9 Hazard Classes

3/1/2024

Hazmat Video Essentials: The 9 Hazard Classes

Explore all 9 classes of hazardous materials regulated around the world (and their divisions) in the latest Hazmat Shipping Essentials video. Follow the series on our YouTube channel in 2024.  
Video: Shipping Lithium Batteries in 2024

2/15/2024

Video: Shipping Lithium Batteries in 2024

For shippers of lithium batteries, this quick video explores important compliance considerations and recent rule changes affecting shipments in 2024 (and beyond). 
How Undeclared Hazmat Gets Discovered In Transit

1/15/2024

How Undeclared Hazmat Gets Discovered In Transit

With thousands of undeclared shipments posing potential threat to worker safety, public health, and supply chain security every year, some may wonder: How would someone know that a package contains hazmat if the package displays no hazmat markings or labels?
Remembering Pan Am Flight 160—50 Years Later

11/6/2023

Remembering Pan Am Flight 160—50 Years Later

To mark 50 years since the tragic Pan Am 160 cargo flight disaster that claimed three lives on November 3, 1973, we consider the incident's impact this week.
4 DOT Hazmat Safety Advisories on Rail Accidents

7/25/2023

4 DOT Hazmat Safety Advisories on Rail Accidents

Hazmat safety notices issued by US DOT this year highlight several important lessons from a recent spate of train derailments involving hazardous materials around the US. 
3 Common Causes of Fireworks Transportation Incidents

6/26/2023

3 Common Causes of Fireworks Transportation Incidents

While fireworks are subject to some unique shipping requirements, the most frequent causes of fires, spills, and other incidents during transportation will be all too familiar to all hazardous materials shippers. 
Gasoline Tanker Fire Causes I-95 Collapse Near Philadelphia

6/12/2023

Gasoline Tanker Fire Causes I-95 Collapse Near Philadelphia

Update: Demolition of the section of I-95 damaged by a recent gasoline tanker fire near Philadelphia was completed on Friday, June 16. Re-building has begun, with crews working around the clock.
Help, My Hazmat Has 2 Hazards!

6/9/2023

Help, My Hazmat Has 2 Hazards!

How to use the 49 CFR precedence of hazard instructions, precedence of hazard table, and more in 49 CFR 173.2a to determine which of two hazard classes or divisions is the primary hazard, and which is subsidiary.
Hazmat Registration Ends June 30, Fees May Increase

6/1/2023

Hazmat Registration Ends June 30, Fees May Increase

US DOT PHMSA may need to increase the Registration fee amounts paid by shippers and carriers of certain types and quantities of hazardous materials in order to fund hazmat emergency preparedness and training grants.

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EH&S Manager

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Donna Moot

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Marty Brownfield

Hazardous Waste Professional

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