A Placard that has this 3 in the bottom corner of it is for this kind of material.
What are Flammable Liquids?
This document holds a master list of the train cars and their contents.
What is Train Consist?
This placard colour is used to show that the product can react violently, or as an oxidizer.
What is Yellow?
This Four Digit Identification Number is on an Orange, rectangular placard.
What is the UN number?
This concentrate is proportioned and added to water to blanket flammable or combustible liquids.
What is Class B Foam?
What are Explosives?
This page or booklet contains all the safety information about a product, including first aid and emergency response measures.
What is Safety Data Sheet?
What is White?
The NFPA standard contains the Qualifications for a Hazardous Materials Responder.
What is NFPA 470?
Don't use water! This colour placard means the product may react violently with water.
What is a Blue Placard
This trailer will always have at least a green placard, as it can only haul that type of material.
What is a Tube Trailer?
This is the Regulatory Body in Canada for the transportation of dangerous goods.
What is Transport Canada
This method is best used with AFFF foams, where spraying the foam in the air above the product allows the foam bubbles to burst, and meld together to form a film over the fluid
This system ranks a products health hazard, flammability, and instability on a scale of 0 - 4, as well as denotes special hazards like water reactive or oxidizer.
What is NFPA 704?
This type of container is used to transport Hazard Class 8 materials down the highway.
What is Corrosive liquid tank?
What is Green?
AR-AFFF foam is designed to work on these types of chemicals, where normal Class B foams wouldn't.
What are water miscible materials? (Alcohols, esters, or keytones)
This type of ionizing radiation have a physical mass with no electric charge, and can pass through thick layers of most materials, often released as a bi-product of Fission.
What is Neutron Radiation?
ANSI Z535.1 uses this color to identify Warning.
What is Orange?
This chemical, which was used until the 80's in capacitors and transformers, requires its own very specific label, identifying it as a Schedule 1 toxic chemical, and if found, to contact Environment Canada (Canada) or the Coast Guard National Response Center (USA).
What is PCB? (Polycholorinated Biphenyls)
This foam, used most commonly in industrial settings and aircraft hangars, has an expansion ratio of 200:1 when aerated.
What is High Expansion Foam?