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What do the colors in the Emergency Response Guidebook mean?

Joe Ford

What do the colors in the Emergency Response Guidebook mean?

The guidebook features five color-coded sections: White: The first section of the book contains general information on rail cars, trailer identification, placards, and pipelines. Yellow: In the yellow section of the book, responders can locate specific information using a material’s 4-digit United Nations (UN) number.

What does the green section of the ERG contain?

The green pages indicate the Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances. This section of the ERG describes the distances necessary for initial isolation around a chemical incident as well as the distance downwind that persons must be protected.

What are the ERG colors?

The ERG is organized into easily recognized colors.

  • WHITE – Introduction, instruction, guidance, placards, and more.
  • YELLOW – Materials ordered by 4-Digit UN/NA Number.
  • BLUE – Materials ordered by dangerous goods material name.

What are the main colored pages used by the Naerg book?

Terms in this set (6)

  • White pages.
  • Yellow pages.
  • Blue pages.
  • Orange pages.
  • Green pages.
  • White pages (back of the book)

What are the four sections of the Emergency Response Guidebook?

Contents

  • 2.1 White Section (front)
  • 2.2 Yellow Section.
  • 2.3 Blue Section.
  • 2.4 Orange Section.
  • 2.5 Green Section.
  • 2.6 White Section (back)

What’s new in the 2020 ERG?

The glossary will include new terms and their definitions. A new cautionary inhalation toxicity statement is added to petroleum crude oil containing dissolved hydrogen sulfide gas UN1267 guide 128. Better illustrations will appear in the rail car and road trailer identifications charts.

What does the Emergency Response Guidebook contain?

The ERG includes 62 “Guides” (found in the Orange Section) that identify the primary hazards associated with the applicable general category of hazardous material and general guidance on how to respond to incidents involving that general category of hazardous material.

What is the emergency response guide number for un1001?

Guide d’Intervention 116.

Who uses the Emergency Response Guidebook?

The Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident (ERG) is used by emergency response personnel (such as firefighters, paramedics and police officers) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States when responding to a …