- Author
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Australian Transport Safety Bureau
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Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries
- Title
- Emergency Rescuer's Guide to Vehicles Fitted With Supplemental Restraint Systems (SRS). Airbags and Pyrotechnic Seat Belt Pretensioners.
- Coporate
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Canberra, Australia
- Report
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Issue 3,
January 2001,
163 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: Australian Transport Safety Bureau, P.O. Box 967, Civic Square ACT, Australia. Telephone: 1800 621 372. Website: http://www.atsb.gov.au/
- Keywords
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automobiles
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rescue
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emergencies
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azides (organic)
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occupants
- Identifiers
- airbags; Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB); Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI)
- Abstract
- This booklet is produced to assist Emergency Rescue Personnel by providing information about vehicles equipped with driver, passenger and side airbags and pyrotechnic seatbelt pretensioners as supplemental restraint systems. This guide gives Emergency Rescue Personnel information to handle rescues involving a vehicle equipped with an airbag or seatbelt pretensioner SRS, whether or not it has deployed. Its aim is to relieve any unnecessary concern regarding rescues on vehicles fitted with these pyrotechnic devices. The most important thing to remember is that occupants and rescuers are not exposed to harmful levels of chemicals with a deployed or undeployed airbag SRS. The gas generant, which contains either sodium azide or nitrocellulose is securely contained and sealed before deployment and is consumed. during a deployment. Testing shows that there are no detectable levels of sodium azide in the combustion by- products, The by-products of nitrocellulose combustion are relatively harmless in the concentrations found during an Airbag SRS deployment.