TransCaer, a national outreach effort based in Washington, focuses on assisting communities to prepare for and respond to possible hazardous materials incidents. This year's emphasis is on anhydrous ammonia, used in many industrial refrigeration applications and other manufacturing uses, among others. Emergency responders require specific knowledge and skills to protect the public and safely mitigate a hazardous incident.
The 2011 Nationwide Anhydrous Ammonia Tour is a hands-on training event about anhydrous ammonia's properties, chemical-release response recommendations and chemical-transport equipment. The training is free.
The tour's safety training topics include:
- Transportation of ammonia (modes, routes
and volume identifiers).
- Types of transport equipment (nurse tanks, tank
trucks and rail tank cars).
- Hands-on training with transport equipment (valves,
gauges, fittings and response measures).
- First aid for ammonia releases and who to call for help.
- The physical and chemical properties of
- Uses of anhydrous ammonia.
- Basic health effects and initial first aid for treating exposures.
- Construction, configurations and safety
- Markings, labels, placards and shipping documents.
- Hands-on review and examination of on-site
- Emergency response considerations.
- Defensive and offensive approaches to
- Types of ammonia releases that could be
- Release characteristics affected by environmental
- Emergency contacts.
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