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Your Hazmat Fusion Center

Joe SilvestrisSouthern RIST Team Leader

What We are Trying to Prevent

Systematic Approach

• Data Collection

• Analysis• Analysis

• Dissemination

Data Collection

• Regional Incident Survey Teams (RIST)

• Hazmat incident reporting system on the secure Webthe secure Web portal

Analysis & Dissemination

• Lessons learnedLessons learned• Smart and effective practices

Wh t i hi d ill d d l d• What is shipped, spilled, and released• Incident patterns and trends• Safe response recommendations• Planning tools and resourcesPlanning tools and resources

Analysis & Dissemination ContinuedContinued

• Effective trainingEffective training• Product/incident specific training materials

H t i t• Hazmat response equipment

CRITICAL HAZMAT INFORMATION NOTIFICATIONNOTIFICATION

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IAFC NFA Industry: Rail, Truck, IAFC NFA y , ,Chemical, Pipeline

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Organizations represented Organizations represented on the workgroups on the workgroups

Pilot Year Nov 07-08

• Bottom up DevelopmentBottom up Development • Regional Focus Groups• Fusion Center WorkgroupsFusion Center Workgroups• Four RISTs established• Jumpstart portal• Jumpstart portal• National Outreach

Year-Two Activities

• Fusion Center OperationalFusion Center Operational• Beta version of Fusion Center Portal• RIST surveys beginRIST surveys begin• Hazmat symposiums • National Hazmat team collaboration• National Hazmat team collaboration

Web Portal Philosophy

• Crawl walk run• Crawl, walk, run• Hazmat community develops the Portal

d t tand content• Evolves based on input from hazmat

community

Web Portal Areas

• Public Area– Fusion Center and Hazmat InformationFusion Center and Hazmat Information– Summary statistics, trends and analysis– Summary RIST Reports– News

• Members Only Area (registration required)S t ti d l l d– Smart practices and lessons learned

– Incident Reporting System– National and regional statistics, trends and analysisg , y– Full RIST Reports– Hazmat Forum– Fusion Center Working Groups

Portal Rollout

• Soft launch of the public site in August• Register now for Members Only area or for g y

team access to the Incident Reporting System

• Nationwide release October 15, 2010, at the HOTZONE Conference in Houston, Texas

New Public Area Home Page

Members Only Area

Click here to access

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Click here to access the

Incident Report the Hazmat Forum

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View Training, Resource Links, and products of the

Fusion Center

New Members Only Design

Report Dashboard

Incident Report Form

Form Navigation Bar

Incident Report Form ContinuedContinued

Narrative Section

Printable Form

RIST

What are they?• Seven member teams

from the hazmat community

• Represent the spectrum• Represent the spectrum of hazmat response

E i d h t• Experienced hazmat responders

Where are they?

RIST inRIST in each of the PHMSA regionsg

Mission• Deploy to hazmat incidents of interest• Gather information• Analyze the data• Develop lessons learned and smart

practices report• Forward report to NHMFC for review

and packaging• Develop and disseminate reports and p p

training materials

RIST Survey Topics

Transportation• Gasoline• Styrene Monomer Solution• Hydrofluoric Acid

Fixed Facility• Anhydrous Hydrochloric AcidHydrofluoric Acid

• Ethanol & Ethanol Blends• Asphalt

• Hydrogen• Ammonia

Gasoline• Hydrochloric Acid• Ammonia Nitrate• Acrylic Acid

• Gasoline

Other• Acrylic Acid• Heating Oil • Chlorine

• Carbon MonoxideAl min m S lfide• Aluminum Sulfide

Chlorine Training Package

CO Training Package

HCl Training Package

Training & Planning

Rural Emergency ResponsePlanning ProjectPlanning Project

• Railroad and rural area focusRailroad and rural area focus• Better understand rural and remote issues and

help improve rural hazmat planning and p p p gresponse– Allegany County, Maryland– Allen Parish, Louisiana– Franklin County, Massachusetts

Training Projects

• ERG Video• Ethanol: Response

Considerations TrainingConsiderations Training Package and Video

• Biodiesel: Response• Biodiesel: Response Considerations Training Package and VideoPackage and Video

Hydrogen Fuels Training &Education Research ProjectEducation Research Project

• Determine the current status of hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell knowledge and training in the emergency services and identify gapsemergency services and identify gaps

• Focus on volunteer and combination departments with limited resourcesdepartments with limited resources

• Prove the concept of a distance learning approach to improve hazmat training utilizingapproach to improve hazmat training utilizing hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell technology

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Year-Three Activities

• Expand, refine, and roll-out the Web portal system to the broader audienceC ti RIST ti iti• Continue RIST activities

• Continue to identify and network hazmat teams and begin capability determinationsand begin capability determinations

• Continue to build from the bottom-up and reflect the needs of the national hazmat responsethe needs of the national hazmat response community

Contact Information

Tom Wells Operations703.537.4846

Amber Wells

twells@iafc.org

RIST Coordinator703.880.5121

Kelly Wolfe703 273 9735

awells@iafc.org

Data Managerk lf @i f703.273.9735

Elena Slavinsky703 273 9835

kwolfe@iafc.org

Data Analysteslavinsky@iafc org703.273.9835

Veronique Nagle703 537 4825

eslavinsky@iafc.org

EL/Hydrogenvnagle@iafc org703.537.4825 vnagle@iafc.org

Contact Information

Joe Silvestris Southern RIST LeaderJoe Silvestris407-468-0207

Warren Ritter

Southern RIST Leaderjsilvestris@iafc.org

Southern RIST Leader336-451-0054 jritter@iafc.org

Contact Information

National Hazardous Materials Fusion Center

www.hazmatfc.com

Email – hazmatfusion@iafc.orgIAFC – www.iafc.org/hazmatfusion

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