The Dangerous Goods Advisory Council (DGAC) has invited Spill Center President Tom Moses to speak at its 27th Annual Conference and Exposition, Nov. 9-11, in Atlanta.

Hazardous materials spill reporting regulations vary widely from one jurisdiction to the next, and ignorance of the regulations is no defense against a citation for failure to report. In Louisiana, the need for swift action cannot be overemphasized. Louisiana’s hazmat incident notification regulation requires immediate telephone notification – within one hour of discovery of a hazmat release.

Louisiana’s Transportation Release and Incident Reporting Criteria are covered under RS 32:1510 – Reporting of Incidents, Accidents, and Cleanups.

Do all your employees know how to activate your emergency response plan? Recently, a major carrier unnecessarily lost thousands of dollars in downtime when an employee discovered a minor paint spill and responded in the worst way! Rather than making a call to get expert advice – as the company’s emergency plan instructs – the employee took the wrong advice and evacuated the entire terminal facility.

Either the employee didn’t know the company had an emergency response plan or didn’t know how to use it. So instead of activating the plan, he called the local fire department. They told him to get everyone out of the building. This scenario happens all too often. You can avoid it with new on-site customized training from Spill Center!

Spill Center has offered its Electronic Emergency Response Management System (E2RMS) to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to facilitate the sharing of homeland security-related and crime-related information and intelligence. E2RMS is a proven risk-based, information-driven prevention, response, and consequence management program, explained Tom Moses, Spill Center president, in a presentation to the Mass. State Police. He discussed how the need to develop and share information and intelligence across all levels of government has significantly changed over the last few years.

Jimmy Jernstad, Safety Manager of Alliance Airlines, shares some straight talk on Spill Center.