“How to use this Guidebook” instructions are now in a flowchart

Many sections have been expanded and/or revised, including:

• Shipping documents (Papers)
• Table of markings, labels and placards and initial response guide to use on-scene
• Rail car and road trailer identification charts (including more detailed information on each)
• Pipeline transportation
• Protective clothing
• Improvised explosive device (IED) safe stand off distance chart
• Glossary
• Emergency response telephone numbers

New sections have been added:

• Local emergency response numbers (to be filled by user)
• Table of Contents
• Globally harmonized systems (GHS) of classification and labeling of chemicals
• Information about emergency response assistance plans (ERAP) for Canadian users

Index list of dangerous goods in order of ID number (yellow-bordered pages), and the Index list of dangerous goods in alphabetical order (blue-bordered pages):

• Addition of all new dangerous goods listed in the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods up to the 19th revised edition

Emergency response guides (“Guides”/orange-bordered pages):

• Revision of some guide information
• Two guides have been added for adsorbed gases
• Identification of potential emergency response assistance plan (ERAP) products for Canadian users

Table of initial isolation and protective action distances (Green-bordered pages):

• Updated initial isolation and protective action distances (Tables 1 and 3) based on new toxicity data and reactivity research
• Added “Estimating wind speed from environmental clues” for Table 3

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