Incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials can devastate a company. For hazmat employees, they can result in serious injuries, or worse. They can also cause damage to a company’s ...

DOT-required hazmat training must cover four distinct areas: general awareness, safety, security awareness, and function-specific training, the company said. For trainers, the latter can be the most ...

The Electronic Learning Community is now available to provide high-quality training for emergency responders. Its first course concerns responding to situations involving hydrogen fuels. May 10, 2012 ...

OSHA's online "Working With Hazardous Materials" page 1 is a useful guide to this topic, ranging from hazards encountered by forklift operators who move hazardous materials to workers handling ...

Have you ever wondered what the most common mistakes are that shippers and carriers make when transporting Hazardous Materials? According to the United States Department of Transportation, Federal ...

According to OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 (q), every emergency responder who responds to the scene of a hazardous materials incident must be trained to a minimum of the awareness level. This requirement has ...

A team of responders transports a ‘victim’ to safety during an exercise at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness. Using the type of equipment firefighters and others have in the field and exercises ...