A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/14502

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A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases

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TRB’s Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 5: A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases provides step-by-step guidance on assessing hazardous materials emergency response needs at the state, regional, and local levels. The report also addresses matching state, regional, and local capabilities with potential emergencies involving different types of hazardous materials, and offers an assessment on how quickly resources can be expected to be brought to bear in an emergency.

The methodology described in HMCRP Report 5 is designed to be scalable, allowing the implementation results to be aggregated at the local level up through regional, state, and national levels. The guide includes a spreadsheet tool—available online and on CD-ROM with the print version of the report—that is designed to help lead planners through the assessment process.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Hazardous Material Cooperative Research Program

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2011. A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/14502.

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108 pages | 8.5 x 11 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/14502

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-vii
Introduction	1-2
How to Use This Document	3-4
Chapter 1 - Overview of the Approach	5-10
Chapter 2 - Assessing Emergency Response Capability	11-15
Chapter 3 - Defining Your Jurisdictional Emergency Response Objectives	16-21
Chapter 4 - Identifying Hazardous Materials in Your Jurisdiction	22-27
Chapter 5 - Potential Consequences of Incidents Involving the Identified Hazardous Materials	28-32
Chapter 6 - The Mitigating Effects of Emergency Response	33-36
Chapter 7 - Aligning Hazardous Materials with Varying Levels of Capability	37-40
Chapter 8 - Identifying Shortfalls where Additional/Different Capabilities Are Warranted	41-41
Chapter 9 - Approaches for Addressing Identified Shortfalls	42-43
Chapter 10 - Sustaining the Process	44-44
Acronyms	45-45
Appendix A - Information Sources	46-61
Appendix B - Estimating Vulnerability	62-65
Appendix C - Estimating the Consequence Term in the Risk Metric Equation	66-70
Appendix D - Additional Details on Capability Assessment	71-72
Appendix E - Estimating Emergency Response Times	73-75
Appendix F - Bibliography	76-77
Appendix G - Final Report for HMCRP Project 03	78-108
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	109-109

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