Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Management: Dealing With Safety and Security By: Bob Froncza

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Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk
Management Dealing With Safety and SecurityBy
Bob FronczakOf Association of American
RailroadsFor Transportation Research
BoardDate January, 14, 2003
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Outline

• What is transportation risk management (TRM)?
• Do you distinguish between safety and security in
  addressing TRM considerations? Why or why not?
• What significant TRM accomplishments have
  occurred since September 11, 2001?
• What critical TRM challenges that lie ahead?
• What is your organization/industry doing to
  address these challenges?

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What is Transportation Risk Management?

• Risk Probability X Consequence
• Probability is the chance that something bad will
  happen. It can be expressed in many ways.
  Accident rate, derailment rate, rate of a release
  if an accident occurs are all examples
• Consequence is the result of something bad
  happening. Number of evacuations, number of
  injuries, and cost of cleanup, are all examples
  of consequence

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Difference between safety and security

• Safety risk has been dealt with for years
• Accident rates, hazardous materials release rate,
  the Non Accident Release Risk Index are all
  examples of safety risk
• Security adds a new dimension THREAT
• In security terminologyRisk Probability X
  Consequence X Threat

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Difference between safety and security

• Threat is based upon intelligence
• By applying a threat level to an asset, risk can
  be assigned
• Quantifying risk allows
• Protection of critical assets
• Prioritizes what needs to be protected (cant
  protect everything all the time)

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TRM accomplishments since September 11, 2001?

• AARs Terrorism Risk Analysis and Security
  Management Plan
• Result of Five Critical Action Teams (CATs)
• Hazardous Materials
• Physical Infrastructure
• Operations
• IT Communications
• Military

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Methodology

• Grouped primary materials of concern for
  terrorists
• Poison Inhalation Hazards (PIH)
• Fire and/or Explosion or Physical Hazard
• Water Consumption or Ingestion Hazard
• Other hazardous materials
• Examined methods of ranking relative hazards
• DOT Class Hazards
• North American Response Guide Evacuation
  Distances
• AARs Non-Accident Release Index (NARRI)
• Railroad Infrastructure Hazardous Materials
  Evaluation Matrix

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Products

• List of specific hazardous materials
• Hazardous Materials Risk Evaluation Matrix
• Countermeasures to reduce risk
• Public Venues
• Tunnels
• Yard Track / Yards
• Mainline Track
• Bridges Over Waterways and Other
• HAZMAT Storage Areas
• Catalyst Facilities
• Recommendations for the tank car committee
• Other

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Alert Levels

• Level 1 -- New Normal day-to-day operations
• Level 2 -- Heightened Security Awareness
• Level 3 -- A Credible Threat of an attack on
  the US or railroad industry (continuously
  reevaluated)
• Level 4 -- A Confirmed Threat of attack against
  the railroad industry or actual attack in the US
  
• (implemented up to 72 hours and reevaluated)

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What critical TRM challenges that lie ahead?

• Resources
• Research and development
• Where and who
• Implementation
• Intelligence
• Industry government partnership
• Security of data
• Regulation???

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What are we doing to address these challenges?

• Resources
• Working with government agencies
• Self funding to date
• Intelligence
• Continue work with government intelligence
  agencies
• Industry government partnerships
• Working with Northcom / DHS / OHS / DOT / TSA /
  etc.