First responders should become familiar with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hazard classes for hazardous materials and the placards and labels used to identify those hazards. This ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 10,410,547 to J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc., provider of safety and regulatory compliance solutions. The patent, related to ...

EMERGENCY responders have helped protect Americans from hazardous substance releases since our nation's beginnings. From the bucket brigades of colonial times to today's in-plant and community ...

Nearly every community, large and small, has hazardous materials transported through it or around it. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) mandates the creation of ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a professional truck driver for 30 years, I am very familiar with switching between different metal and sticker-style hazard placards for display on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - If the city complies with a recent court order, it will have to ensure that as many as 400 Cleveland homes with lead hazards are placarded with warning signs by June 23, according to ...

The Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports 735 hazardous-material incidents on Pennsylvania highways in 2009, down from 868 in 2008. "Incident" means a hazardous material being released ...

We've all seen them, whether on a road trip, or just commuting to work. Semi-trucks and tankers are everywhere. Hundreds of those trucks are carrying hazardous materials -- like gasoline and other ...

"Every single home is placarded," Shannon Lands, director of health promotion and policy integration said. Toledo's list included 27 properties. The department follows up by having staff drive by the ...

More than 40 years ago, Abe Samuels, then 55 years old, came to a new job in an unfamiliar industry with energy and inventiveness. He not only made a success of the job, but invented an iconic product ...