This guidebook is called the 2016 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2016). The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), “distributed more than 1.5 million free copies of the guidebook to firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law enforcement officers across the nation. (Transportation.gov) The ERG2016 is the newest edition of the guidebook as it gets updated every four years. This guidebook has information for hazardous materials. It can tell you how stable the materials are to the risk the material has for fire and explosion, just like the placards. If a first responder knows the material that they are dealing with, they can look it up. For instance, a responder is told that there was a Chlorine leak, they can look in the guidebook and find that this is a gas that causes difficulty
This guidebook is called the 2016 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2016). The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), “distributed more than 1.5 million free copies of the guidebook to firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law enforcement officers across the nation. (Transportation.gov) The ERG2016 is the newest edition of the guidebook as it gets updated every four years. This guidebook has information for hazardous materials. It can tell you how stable the materials are to the risk the material has for fire and explosion, just like the placards. If a first responder knows the material that they are dealing with, they can look it up. For instance, a responder is told that there was a Chlorine leak, they can look in the guidebook and find that this is a gas that causes difficulty