With 36 + years of railway industry experience, we are able to make available the following quality services:

• Class-room type training sessions at your location with programs to cover basic, intermediate or advanced levels of railway information pertinent to your operations, your Company’s needs or employers’ standards etc. and/or…

• Customized off-site program development

• Individual meetings to assist in implementing changes, recommending best practices etc and

• Provide community leadership

These presentations may include discussions on:

Railway Operations:

• critical safety and regulatory systems
• environmental considerations and responsibilities
• man-power: who does what, who is in charge
• tactical role of community emergency services (Police, Fire, EMS)
• Authority of government (local, provincial, state, federal)
• Documentation:
  • what the cars contain
  • how to interpret written data
  • legal responsibility for documentation
  • where to find the documentation

  

Classification of Hazardous Materials (US) or Transportation of Goods regulations (Canada) and placards and labels and examples of:

• Class 1 Explosives
• Class 2 Gases
• Class 3 Liquids
• Class 4 Solids
• Class 5 Oxidizers and organic peroxides
• Class 6 Toxic
• Class 7 Radioactive
• Class 8 Corrosives
• Calls 9 Miscellaneous
• Other Regulated Materials (ORM’s)
• Miscellaneous labels

Emergency Response Guide (ERG), how to read, understand and apply the correct information.

Impact that North American and overseas regulations such as International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG) have on movements of regulated materials by rail in Canada and US.

Identification of rolling stock:

• differences in tank car design and construction
• detailed discussion and review of tank car fittings, design, common sources of leakage
• special techniques and procedures
• how to interpret data and markings on the sides of rail cars
• operations of locomotives – propulsion, air brakes, power generation, fuel system
• Intermodal consignments
• Hopper cars
• Box cars
• Mixed loads

Resource agencies:

• CANUTEC (Canada)
• CHEMTREC/National Response Centre (US)

Emergency Response plans:

• Identify the need (analysis)
• How to organize, set-up and test
• Assist in organizing table-top exercise, drill and full-scale exercises
• Emergency Responders (contract, industry, municipal etc):
  • Identify key roles and responsibilities at the accident scene
  • Safety at the accident scene i.e. what you can and cannot do
  • Incident Command – what it is and what it is not
  • Medical screening and record keeping requirements for personnel involved at Hazardous Materials incidents

  

Community:

• How the community views an incident
• How to deal with media
• Dealing with extended responses and needs of the community