- Author
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National Transportation Safety Board
- Title
- Analysis of the Safety of Transportation of Hazardous Materials on the Navigable Waters of the United States.
- Coporate
- National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
- Report
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NTSB-MSS-72-2,
March 15, 1972,
27 p.
- Keywords
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accidents
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hazardous materials
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risk analysis
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transportation
- Identifiers
- future trends in shipping hazardous materials; emergency contingency planning; additional controls needed to prevent major hazardous materials casualties
- Abstract
- The report analyzes the safety of transportation of bulk hazardous materials on the navigable waters of the United States. Typical hazardous materials (H>M>) accidents are analyzed to determine what countermeasures are necessary to prevent recurrence. Risks involved in the transportation of H.M. are analyzed, with priority given to prevention of catastrophic accidents. The ingredients necessary for the occurrence of a catastrophic H>M> incident are discussed, and the risk peaks leading to the casualty are analyzed. Federal regulatory authority over the transportation of H.M. by water is summarized. Projects of the future shipment of H.M., and trends in H.M. accidents are made. The report concludes with a summary of areas of control of H.M. needed to prevent major H.M. accidents, and recommendations made to implement these added controls.