Hazardous materials are potentially harmful to people and environment due to their toxic ingredients. Although a significant portion of dangerous goods transportation is via railroads, prevailing studies on dangerous goods transport focus on highway shipments. We present an analytical framework that incorporates the differentiating features of trains, notably volume and nature of cargo, in the ...

Due to catastrophic consequences of accidents by hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation, a risk-averse approach for routing is appropriate for risk mitigation. In this paper, we consider spectral risk measures, which are coherent and more general than existing approaches such as conditional value-at-risk. In spectral risk measures, one can define the spectrum function precisely to reflect ...

It is necessary to appropriately integrate risk analysis with planning and transport management to prevent a potential danger being transformed into a real event. The aim of this study is to evaluate risks for workers, through a new approach that links the occupational safety health (OSH) and control of major accident Hazard (COMAH) risks, using quantitative assessment. The method has been test...

The increased number of hazardous materials transportation accidents has caused a series of environmental and health problems across the world. In this paper, a hazardous materials transportation monitoring system (HMTM) is designed, implemented, and tested using multi-interface Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In order to meet various state tanker transportation information collection, we desi...

Presently in India, about 960 million tonnes of solid waste is being generated annually as by-products during industrial, mining, municipal, agricultural and other processes. Of this 350 million tonnes are organic wastes from agricultural sources; 290 million tonnes are inorganic waste of industrial and mining sectors and 4.5 million tonnes are hazardous in nature. Advances in solid waste manag...

Hazardous materials traffic originates and terminates at numerous different locations throughout the North American railroad network. Rerouting of this traffic, especially Toxic Inhalation Hazard materials, away from populated areas has received considerable attention in recent years as a means of reducing risk. However, rerouting on a route specific basis is neither simple nor necessarily effe...

an ovERviEW of THE RiSKS PoSED To HEalTHCaRE WoRKERS Cancer is the world’s leading cause of death, claiming the lives of an estimated 7.9 million people in 2007 alone.1 Experts expect these numbers to double before 2030.1 The unsafe handling of hazardous drugs used to treat many forms of cancer has been recognized since the 1970s as a significant health hazard to workers. Studies have shown tha...

In the case of hazardous materials management, selected routes for carrying hazardous materials (i.e., hazmat) have significant effects on locating hazmat distribution centers. Since, risk and cost are usually considered as two main attributes to determine the best routes, optimized locations are sequentially outlined depending on selected routes. In the present paper, t...

This study investigated the dynamics of communication between members of an emergency management team faced with controlling a hazardous chemical spill. The effects of two sets of factors on communication were investigated; task-specific factors pertaining to characteristics of the emergency management task that are constant across different emergency situations, and situationspecific factors p...