HMCRP Report 5:

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

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Publication Year:2011

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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. ...
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Front Matter	i-ix
Introduction	1-2	(skim)
How to Use This Document	3-4	(skim)
Balancing Assessment with Planning Capabilities of a Local Emergency Response Organization	5-6	(skim)
Defining the Risk Metric	7-7	(skim)
Vulnerability	8-8	(skim)
Summary of Risk Metric Evaluation Steps	9-10	(skim)
Terminology to Represent Emergency Response Capability	11-11	(skim)
Defining Emergency Response Capability Tiers	12-14	(skim)
Determining Your Teams' Capability Tiers	15-15	(skim)
Establishing Your Performance Objectives	16-21	(skim)
Material Categorization - Incident Release Types	22-23	(skim)
Additional Sources of Information	24-24	(skim)
Documentation - Creating a Hazardous Materials Portfolio	25-25	(skim)
Transportation Corridors (Mobile Sources)	26-27	(skim)
Defining Consequences	28-28	(skim)
Estimating Human-Health Consequences	29-30	(skim)
Estimating Environmental Consequences	31-31	(skim)
Selecting the Consequence Value	32-32	(skim)
Emergency Response Capability Factor	33-34	(skim)
Response Time Factor	35-35	(skim)
Quantifying the Mitigating Effects	36-36	(skim)
Adding Risk to the Hazardous Materials Portfolio	37-38	(skim)
Hazardous Materials Portfolio Example	39-40	(skim)
Chapter 8 - Identifying Shortfalls where Additional/Different Capabilities Are Warranted	41-41	(skim)
Reallocating Resources	42-42	(skim)
Hazardous Materials Route Restrictions	43-43	(skim)
Sharing Emergency Response Capability Assessments	44-44	(skim)
Acronyms	45-45	(skim)
Appendix A - Information Sources	46-61	(skim)
Appendix B - Estimating Vulnerability	62-65	(skim)
Appendix C - Estimating the Consequence Term in the Risk Metric Equation	66-70	(skim)
Appendix D - Additional Details on Capability Assessment	71-72	(skim)
Appendix E - Estimating Emergency Response Times	73-75	(skim)
Appendix F - Bibliography	76-77	(skim)
Appendix G - Final Report for HMCRP Project 03	78-108	(skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	109-109	(skim)

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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.

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