- Author
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Federal Office of Road Safety
- Title
- Emergency Rescuer's Guide to Cars Fitted With Airbag Supplemental Restraint Systems (Airbag SRS).
- Coporate
- Federal Office of Road Safety, Canberra, Australia
- Report
-
Issue 1,
December 1995,
97 p.
- Keywords
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automobiles
|
rescue
|
emergencies
|
azides (organic)
|
occupants
- Identifiers
- airbags
- Abstract
- The purpose of this booklet is to assist Emergency Rescue Personnel by providing information about vehicles equipped with driver and passenger airbags as supplemental restraint systems. This guide gives Emergency Rescue Personnel information to handle rescues involving a vehicle equipped with an airbag SRS, whether or not it has deployed. Its aim is to relieve any unnecessary concern regarding airbag SRS related rescues. The most important thing to remember is that occupants and rescuers are not exposed to harmful levels of chemicals with a deployed or undepolyed airbag SRS. The gas generant, which contains either sodium azide or nitrocellulose is securely contained and sealed before depolyment and is consumed during a depolyment. 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.