2020 ERG Book
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WHO NEEDS THE 2020 ERG?
Transport Canada and DOT 49 CFR 172.602 requires anyone who handles or transfers dangerous goods to have emergency response information immediately available. The 2020 ERG helps you comply with this requirement.
Make sure every one of your front-line stakeholders has a 2020 ERG — and knows how to use it. Folks who might be the first to call emergency responders with information that could save lives. This could be any of the following:
- Truck Drivers and Railroad Personnel
- Freight Facility and Warehouse Personnel
- Emergency Medical Services Personnel – And all the other officials who protect our highways, rails, waterways, and airports
- Pipeline Personnel
- Maritime Personnel
- Pilots and Air Freight handlers
- Police
- Firefighters
2020 ERG Book
- As expected, the 2020 ERG has a multitude of changes from the 2016 version, as Transport Canada and PHMSA has assembled an international group of scientists, engineers, and regulatory experts to improve the guidebook and make it more useful for Dangerous Goods organizations and first responders.
- Here’s a list of the most important changes Transport Canada and PHMSA has made. They’re listed based on the colour of their section in the guidebook.
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White pages
- Changes have been made in these sections to make them easier to read and understand:
- Added a new decontamination section to describe basic contamination theory and proper decontamination techniques
- Reworked the BLEVE section into the BLEVE and Heat Induced Tear section. This section now shows the cause and hazards of BLEVEs and Heat Induced Tears
- Added
- Improved the illustrations in the Railcar and Road Trailer Identification Charts
Yellow and Blue Pages
- Removed the UN numbers for Chemical Warfare Agents and moved them to the beginning of the yellow pages and Table 1. They’re still in alphabetical order in the blue pages
- Added fifteen new materials (UN3535 to UN3549) listed in the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (up to the 21st revised edition)
- Deleted out of date materials based on the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and North American regulations
- Re-evaluated the polymerization hazard criteria for some high-risk materials, and added the polymerization marking (P) to 13 materials.
- Re-analyzed the chemical properties of many materials to make sure that they’re assigned to the appropriate Orange Guide. Also moved 34 materials to a different Orange Guide.
Orange Pages
- Added an introduction called “How to use the Orange Guides”. This new section explains the 4 parts of the Orange Guide. In this section, the terms “evacuate” and “isolate” are defined
- With the help of instructors from the United States, the National Fire Academy (NFA) did a comprehensive review of the Orange Guides
- Separated the references to highlighted and non-highlighted materials in the Evacuation section and simplified the language to make it easier to understand
Green Pages
- Revised the distances in Table 1 and Table 3
- TOrganized Table 3 by ID number (numerical order of material) instead of alphabetical order
- Revised “How to use Table 2” to clearly explain that the information in Table 2 is for information purposes only. Table 2 doesn’t change the suggested response strategies listed in the related Orange Guide, Table 1 and Table 3
- Added Table 3 container capacities in the section called “How to use Table 3”
- Added a visual tab in the green page border to make it easier to see the differences between Table 1, 2 and 3. The tables are all still the same green color but the side margins now include a series of white boxes that go down the page with the words Table 1, Table 2, or Table 3
- Added more Toxic Inhalation Hazard (Poison Inhalation Hazard in the U.S.) materials in Table 1 and Water-Reactive Materials in Table 2:
- We have begun shipping copies of the 2020 ERG. You can get them to all your frontline staff by getting your orders in today. Don’t wait!
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