First responders should become familiar with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hazard classes for hazardous materials and the placards and labels used to identify those hazards. This ...

EMERGENCY responders have helped protect Americans from hazardous substance releases since our nation's beginnings. From the bucket brigades of colonial times to today's in-plant and community ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a professional truck driver for 30 years, I am very familiar with switching between different metal and sticker-style hazard placards for display on ...

Many fire chiefs in the United States consider hazardous materials placards to be critical to their emergency response, according to a survey conducted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

Anyone hauling hazardous materials must display the proper informational placards on the outside of a trailer or truck body. In the event of an accident, the colorful placards’ code numbers, letters ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - If the city complies with a recent court order, it will have to ensure that as many as 400 Cleveland homes with lead hazards are placarded with warning signs by June 23, according to ...

"Every single home is placarded," Shannon Lands, director of health promotion and policy integration said. Toledo's list included 27 properties. The department follows up by having staff drive by the ...

The Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports 735 hazardous-material incidents on Pennsylvania highways in 2009, down from 868 in 2008. "Incident" means a hazardous material being released ...

The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a January 9th letter an issue arising out of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) involving ...