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Title: Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Walking the Talk Bob Richard Deputy Associate Administrator


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Office of Hazardous Materials
Safety Walking the Talk
Bob RichardDeputy Associate Administrator
U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationLabelma
ster Instructor Conference
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Lots of changes PHMSA
  • New Offices,
  • New Leadership,
  • New Approach

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Recurring Themes PHMSA Strategic Plan
  • Ensuring Integrity and Reducing Risk
  • Partnerships in Solving Problems and Building
    Capability and Capacity
  • 21st Century Solutions Anticipating Technology
  • System Performance

4
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA)
  • One of the smallest regulatory agencies in the
    federal government
  • Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
  • Office of Pipeline Safety

5
HMEP Grants ProgramEmergency Preparedness
  • 14 Million Per Year
  • 2,102,000 First Responders Trained
  • 1,800 Fire Service Instructors
  • 24,000 CurriculumGuidelines Distributed
  • 11,000 Exercises Conducted
  • Growing to 28 Million
  • Impact, Effectiveness Accountability

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PHMSAs Guiding Principles
  • Systems Approach to Problems
  • Risk-based
  • Data-driven
  • Enterprise Solutions
  • Higher Expectations
  • Stakeholder Inputs
  • Innovative Solutions
  • Partnerships
  • Transparency
  • Self-Corrective Behavior
  • Model Agency
  • Effectiveness
  • Responsiveness
  • 21st Century Solutions

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Risk-Based Risk as the Foundationfor Focus,
Choices, and Priorities
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Risk As Basis for Decisions
  • Risk Analysis and Continual Assessment/Monitoring
    of Highest Risks
  • Rulemaking Priorities
  • Safety and Risk Reduction
  • Statutory Requirements
  • Petitions for Rulemaking from Stakeholders
  • International Harmonization
  • Regulatory Reform (Simplification)
  • Risk-Based Enforcement
  • Serious Incidents and Violations
  • -High risk-high consequence inspections
  • Enhanced modal coordination/shared resources
  • Prioritization of Resources

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What We are Trying to Prevent
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Addressing The Highest Risks
  • Fire Aboard Aircraft
  • Toxic Inhalation Hazards (TIH)
  • Rail Tank Cars
  • Tanker Trucks Crashes
  • Loading/Unloading (Bulk Cargo)

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Other Risk Issues
  • Undeclared Hazmat Shipments
  • Packaging Failures
  • Emergency Response Communications
  • New Technologies
  • Ethanol
  • Fuel Cells Replacing Batteries
  • Hydrogen Economy

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How Safe Are We?Data Driven Performance
Scorecard
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Progress Is Slow The Stats are Flat
Progress is Slow The Stats are Flat
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Loading/Unloading Analysis
Bulk L-UL operations in the trucking and rail
modes represent from a third to half of the
overall risk (probability) of serious incidents
in hazmat transportation.
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Six Tank Truck Crashes Every Day
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Enterprise Approach
  • Pitch a Big Tent
  • Bring All Stakeholders to the Table
  • Share Responsibilities
  • Tackle the Tough Problems
  • Build Partnerships
  • Better, More Innovative Solutions

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Current Enterprises
  • Lithium Batteries on Aircraft
  • Loading Unloading of Bulk Cargo Shipments
  • Shipments of Hazmat by Air Air Packaging
  • Combustible Liquids

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Loading/Unloading Enterprise
  • Best Practices
  • Interested Parties Proposal
  • Facilitated Workshops
  • Refinement of Incident Data
  • Broad Stakeholder Participation
  • Rulemaking

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Partnerships
  • Best Practices for Training of Hazmat Instructors
  • Image of the Hazmat Worker
  • Impediments to Intermodal Shipping
  • Reverse Logistics Undeclared Hazmat
  • Certification of Equipment and Personnel --
    Compressed Gases
  • Combustible Liquids
  • DGAC
  • COSTHA
  • VOHMA
  • COSTHA
  • CGA
  • DGAC

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Undeclared Hazmat Shipments
General Public
Industry
On-Line Auctions, Etc.
Reverse Logistics
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New Enterprises
  • Electronic Freight Management
  • Electronic Emergency Response Guidebook
  • Electronic Shipping Papers
  • Eliminating unnecessary information
  • Packaging Risks
  • Open-Head Drums
  • Rebottling of IBCs

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Leveraging Electronic Technology
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2008 ERG RevisionElectronic Communication to 1st
Responders
  • Paper Guidebook
  • Electronic Guidebook on a Pocket PC
  • 2004 ERGOver 2.2 million copies printed and
    distributed free of charge to the Nations First
    Responders by the U.S. Department of
    Transportation

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Transparency
  • Two-Way Street
  • Example of Integrity Management

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Integrity Management Best Opportunity to Take
Risk Reduction to a New Level IM is Finding
and Fixing Problems Before They Become Failures
  • And It Works!

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An Integrity Management ExampleA Supplier of
Chemical Reagents
  • Reported to the Company in September 2006The
    Largest Number of Reported Incidents of Any
    Company in the U.S.
  • Partnering with PHMSA the Company
  • Examined their Packaging Operations in 5
    Packaging Centers
  • Found Improper Settings on Bottling Machines
  • Inadequately Trained Workers
  • Number of Reported Shipments (Leaking packages)
    Dropped in Half by April 2007

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Enforcement Approach
  • 1) Rank ordering of enforcement targets
  • Risk Categories
  • Serious Offenders
  • Serious and Undeclared Incidents (Multiple)
  • Complaints and Whistleblowers
  • Higher Risk Potentially High Consequence
    Activities
  • Utilize data to prioritize and rank companies
  • Utilize IT solutions to identify locations and
    group the ranked companies for inspection
    planning
  • 2) Enforcement is broader than inspections
  • Accident investigations and Emergency response
  • Expanding our role to Fitness Reviews,
    Partnership Reviews Leverage Training
  • 3) Coordinating with the Modes
  • Includes key partnership efforts
  • 4) Evolving-potential high consequence events

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Next Steps
  • National Training Qualification Standard for HM
    Investigators
  • Training of 14 new field investigators
  • Rulemaking Team to revise Penalty guidelines
  • Systems Integrity Safety Program (policy,
    protocols, criteria)
  • Enforcement Authority Rulemaking
  • Operational Protocols for new authority
  • Lithium Battery Testing Lab
  • New strategic approaches to packaging testing at
    Tobyhanna Lab

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2008 Safety PrioritiesRisk Reduction
  • Hazmat Intelligence Portal (Web/Database)
  • Standards for Loading/Unloading
  • Electronic Freight Management
  • Integrity of Rail Tank Cars
  • Prevention of Tank Truck Rollovers
  • Comprehensive Risk Assessment
  • Performance Scorecard/Data
  • Integrity Management Pilot Program

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2008 Management Priorities Model Agency
  • Stakeholder Outreach/Enterprise
  • Future of HMEP Grant Program
  • Customer Services Initiatives
  • Call Center
  • On-Line Applications/Approvals
  • Emergency Response Partnerships
  • IAFC, NASFM, IAFF, NASTTPO
  • Enforcement Partnerships
  • CVSA, COHMED, Modal Administrations
  • Reauthorization

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Hazmat Reauthorization (HMTA) Themes
  • INTEGRITY RISK
  • PARTNERSHIPS
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • PERFORMANCE

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Reauthorization Proposed Provisions
  • Improve Integrity of the System and Reduce Risk
  • Strengthen Incident Reporting Enforcement
  • Improve our Capability for Data Analysis and Risk
    Assessment (HM Intelligence Portal)
  • Pilot Program in Integrity Management for Large
    Shippers, Carriers, Packagers

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Reauthorization Proposed ProvisionsPerformance
  • Apply Uniform National Standards and Reduce the
    Regulatory Burden
  • Looking at Uniform National Standards in the
    Handling of Hazardous Materials
  • Simplify Compliance Requirements Where Safety is
    Not Compromised (Finger-print checks)

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Reauthorization Proposed ProvisionsPerformance
  • Promote Safety and Efficiency Through Electronic
    Freight Management.
  • Electronic Shipping Papers
  • Wireless Communications for Emergency Responders

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Reauthorization Potential Provisions
  • Strengthened Partnerships with Federal, State,
    and Local Enforcement Officials
  • Center of Excellence -- Enforcement Training
  • Enhanced Enforcement Capabilities of State/Local
    Officials

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Reauthorization Potential Provisions
  • Anticipate New Technology and Invest in
    Technology Development
  • Research and Development Program
  • Anticipate New Technologies
  • Ethanol, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen

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Reauthorization Potential Provisions
  • Partnerships with Emergency Response Community
  • Enhanced emergency response programs
  • federal and state partners.
  • First Responder Partnerships
  • Incident Data and Investigations

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Leadership
  • Raise the Bar on Safety
  • Set Clear Goals Strategies
  • Back Up with Data
  • Build Capacity and Capabilities of Our States
    and Tribesin Emergency Preparedness Response
  • Bring in All Perspectives
  • Work Hand-in-Hand with Our Partners in the
    Federal Family
  • Make It Happen!

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Issues under review
  • Loading and Unloading
  • Documentation simplification and EFM initiative
  • Air packaging
  • Batteries
  • Incorporation of special permits into HMR
  • Combustible Liquids
  • Regulatory relief based on suggestions by
    stakeholders (e.g. regulatory relief that results
    in eliminating overly burdensome requirements and
    enhancing transportation efficiency)
  • ESC systems for new CTMVs
  • Incident Reporting

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Walk the Talk
  • Make it Happen!

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