For more than 10 years, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) has contracted with a package testing laboratory. The U.S. Army’s Logistics Support Activity Packaging, Storage, and Containerization Center (LOGSA) facility in Tobyhanna, PA, performs UN Performance Testing on hazardous material packagings manufactured and marked in [...] Read Full Story
Teaching children about the presence of hazardous materials is our new “grass-roots” approach to educating the public on dangerous goods transport. Combining the brain trust of Skolnik and Labelmaster, we have developed a 33 slide presentation that is geared for both elementary and high school children. Questions such as “What are hazardous materials?” and “Why [...] Read Full Story
As a HazMat Professional, I am more aware than most that HazMat shipments are all around us, everyday. Many people don’t realize that in the US alone, there are more than 800,000 HazMat shipments every day! The US economy and our living standard is based on a stream of hazardous materials that help us to [...] Read Full Story