CANUTEC

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CANUTEC

• Canadian Transport Emergency Centre
• of the Department of Transport
• Established since 1979

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Mississauga Train Derailment, Nov. 10, 1979

• Evacuation of 250,000 people
• Full tank car losses of Chlorine and LPG
• CANUTEC had begun operations on July 3rd 1979
  just 4 months prior to the Mississauga Derailment

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CANUTEC description

• Operated by the Government of Canada.
• Provides free access to information and available
  for use by anyone with respect to any product.
• Offers a free registration program to all
  Canadian companies for CANUTECs 24-hour
  emergency telephone number.
• Registration provides ability to meet regulatory
  requirement for 24-hour emergency number.
• Direct and immediate access to knowledgeable
  chemists, biochemists and chemical engineers
  experienced in dealing with chemical accidents
• Efficient gathering of technical information on
  chemical products and emergency response
  procedures.
• Direct access to Emergency Response Assistance
  Plans (ERAPs) industry teams.

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CANUTEC Advisors

• Scientists with chemistry, biochemistry, chemical
  engineering backgrounds
• Excellent communication skills
• Capacity to handle stressful situations
• Operates 24 hours/7days per week
• Eagerness to help personality
• Teamwork is a critical quality
• Training/continuous learning is essential
• Bilingual (English and French)

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CANUTEC TDG Regulations

• Under Parts 3.5 (1) (f) and 3.5 (2), shipping
  documents must show the following information
• (f) the words 24-Hour Number, or an
  abbreviation of these words, followed by a
  telephone number, including the area code, at
  which the shipper can be reached immediately for
  technical information about the dangerous goods
  in transport, without breaking the telephone
  connection made by the caller
• CANUTEC may be used, however, the shipper must
  receive permission, in writing, from CANUTEC

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OUR CLIENTS
Carriers
Post Offices and Courier Services
Anyone needing help
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ESSENTIAL CONTACTS DATABASE

• Chemical Producers
• Bomb Disposal Squads
• Chemical Emergency Responders
• Emergency Services
• Nuclear Emergency Responders
• Hospitals and Poison Control Centers
• Airports/Ports
• Federal/Provincial/State/Municipal Government
• International Emergency Responders

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Industry Mutual Aid Response Groups

• COMPGEAP The Compressed Gas Emergency Action
  Plan
• CCPA-TEAP The Transportation Emergency
  Assistance Plan
• CHLOREP The Chlorine Emergency Plan.
• SMART The Sulfur Dioxide Mutual Assistance
  Response Team
• LPGERC Liquefied Propane Gas Emergency Response
  Corporation
• CERCA Network of private emergency response
  contractors

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PROFILE OF NATIONAL REGISTRY OF ERAPs

• - 1400 Emergency Response Assistance Plans
• - 4600 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
• - COMPRESSED GASES (CHLORINE, ANHYDROUS AMMONIA
  AND PROPANE), EXPLOSIVES, AND INFECTIOUS
  SUBSTANCES ARE THREE MAIN CLASSES OF DANGEROUS
  GOODS COVERED
• - ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FILED BY SHIPPERS
• - 13 ROAD CARRIERS AND 4 RAIL CARRIERS HAVE
  APPROVED ERAP
• - REGISTRY DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE TO CANUTEC

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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

• CANUTEC manages close to 1.5 million MSDS in
  paper and electronic format
• Several thousands are received every month
• Relied upon by North American emergency
  responders for health and safety information
• MSDS Information is specifically critical for
  non-transport related incidents
• Information described and transmitted to
  emergency response scene

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Useful tools for Emergency Response

• BENZENE vapor pressure is 79.38 mm of mercury at
  70 degrees Farenheit.
• The concentration in air will be as follows
• (79.38 mm Hg/760 mmHg) X 100 10.4
• LEL is 1.3 and UEL is 7.9
• The level at the source is above the UEL but in
  the surrounding area, due to dispersion, you will
  be between LEL and UEL.
• Vapor density is 2.7 and will cling to the
  ground.
• At 10.4 this is equal to 104,000 ppm directly at
  the source. You are way above the IDLH which is
  500 ppm.

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SERVICES/INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CANUTEC
Technical information, properties, behaviour
and incompatibilities
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Example of CANUTECs Information system
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Total number of calls per year
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Total number of emergencies per year
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Shift statistics for 2005
18397
20000
18000
16000
11827
14000
12000
Calls
10000
Emergencies
8000
6000
3367
4000
356
361
162
2000
0
Day
Evening
Night
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1996 North American Emergency Response Guidebook

• The NAERG96 was the result of an International
  collaborative effort among Canada, the United
  States and Mexico.
• Initiated under NAFTA, intended to improve
  hazards communication among the three countries
  by harmonizing emergency response recommendations
  to transportation incidents.

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ERG2000 Additions

• 150 new materials entries
• Revisions to several Guidepages
• Chemical warfare agents
• Water reactive materials
• CBW agents information text
• Tank car Silhouettes
• Tank truck Silhouettes
• English, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian,
  German, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish,
  Japanese, Chinese and Dutch versions
• Ergo databases
• Internet interactive version

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Emergency Response Guide 2004

• Deletion of old organic peroxide names
• Deletion of pre 1995 US NA numbers
• Deletion of all Canadian NA numbers
• Addition of all new UN 12th and UN 13th editions
• Review of ERIC cards contents for evaluation of
  ERG2000 Guidepages

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Emergency Response Guide 2004

• Approximately 700 shipping names deleted
• Approximately 250 shipping names added
• Approximately 100 shipping names moved to a
  different Guidepage related mostly to
  firefighting foam application
• Approximately 15 shipping names added to the
  TIHWR listing
• Addition of radiological-related information in
  the Criminal-terrorist recognition section

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BLEVE Research
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ELECTRONIC HIGHWAY

• E-MAIL ADDRESS CANUTEC_at_TC.GC.CA

• WEB SITE http//WWW.CANUTEC.GC.CAThe Web page
  contains CANUTEC brochure, registration
  information, statistics, ERG2004, articles
  written by advisors, chemical spill related links
  on the Internet, readers comment section, etc.