Emergency Response

They’re everywhere on the Internet: seemingly legitimate organizations offering “instant” CPR or first aid certification for busy people who are required to hold current certification. And it often says right on those websites that online-only CPR or first aid certification is “nationally accepted“. It is not. No major nationally recognized training program in the United

The company in this incident is WORLD-CLASS, but even that does not exempt them from a proper and TIMELY RESPONSE.  This is a “lesson to be learned” event!  The company is still dealing with the fallout 3 years later.  You do not want to be in their shoes!!!  When the 911 Dispatch is calling you

Another great video showing the HIGHLY EFFECTIVE use of a plastic tarp over a release point of Anhydrous Ammonia.  Something so simple, cheap, and easy to use that can have that kind of impact makes a PLASTIC TARP a MUST HAVE in all NH3 emergency response trailers.  Just MAKE SURE the tarp is 100% clean

The explosion is just below and below that video is the actual crossing impact with the Gargbage truck.

The National Academies Press has released the fourteenth volume ofAcute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, a publication that covers the acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for seven of the approximately 400 extremely hazardous substances that have been identified by EPA. AEGLs are exposure levels below which adverse health effects are not likely to