ALLMedicine™ Hazmat Center

Sep 21st, 2020 - Cargo Tank Trucks (CTTs) are a primary surface transportation carrier of hazardous materials (hazmat) in the United States and CTT rollover crashes are the leading cause of injuries and fatalities from hazmat transportation incidents. CTTs are sus...

Sep 15th, 2020 - Personal protective equipment (PPE) are essential for medical personnel responding to hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents. However, their impermeable design causes increased physiological strain and reduced thermoregulation, limiting work times...

May 22nd, 2020 - Although crashes involving hazardous material (HAZMAT) vehicles on expressways do not occur frequently compared with other types of vehicles, the number of lives lost and social damage is very high when a HAZMAT vehicle-involved crash occurs. Ther...

May 10th, 2020 - Physicians' management of hazardous material (HAZMAT) incidents requires personal protective equipment (PPE) utilization to ensure the safety of victims, facilities, and providers; therefore, providing effective and accessible training in its use ...

Apr 22nd, 2020 - The accidents caused by hazardous material during road transportation may result in catastrophic losses of lives and economics, as well as damages to the environment. Regarding the deficiencies in the information systems of hazmat transportation a...

Feb 2nd, 2021 - (Reuters) - "Dictatorship must fail," read the writing on the back of one Myanmar doctor's hazmat suit in a statement of defiance against Monday's military coup. Other medics in at least 20 government hospitals rallied to a campaign of civil disob...

Sep 21st, 2020 - Cargo Tank Trucks (CTTs) are a primary surface transportation carrier of hazardous materials (hazmat) in the United States and CTT rollover crashes are the leading cause of injuries and fatalities from hazmat transportation incidents. CTTs are sus...

Sep 15th, 2020 - Personal protective equipment (PPE) are essential for medical personnel responding to hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents. However, their impermeable design causes increased physiological strain and reduced thermoregulation, limiting work times...

Jun 11th, 2020 - LA PAZ (Reuters) - Most weekdays since the coronavirus broke out in Bolivia, Harvard-educated Luis Fernando Ortiz leaves his job managing the country’s biggest freight forwarding agent and dons a hazmat suit to go in search of a body. A man walks ...

Jun 4th, 2020 - A janitor wearing a hazmat suit to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cleans the rails of an escalator in an almost empty shopping mall in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez MANILA ...

Feb 2nd, 2021 - (Reuters) - "Dictatorship must fail," read the writing on the back of one Myanmar doctor's hazmat suit in a statement of defiance against Monday's military coup. Other medics in at least 20 government hospitals rallied to a campaign of civil disob...

Jun 11th, 2020 - LA PAZ (Reuters) - Most weekdays since the coronavirus broke out in Bolivia, Harvard-educated Luis Fernando Ortiz leaves his job managing the country’s biggest freight forwarding agent and dons a hazmat suit to go in search of a body. A man walks ...

Jun 4th, 2020 - A janitor wearing a hazmat suit to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cleans the rails of an escalator in an almost empty shopping mall in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez MANILA ...

Apr 22nd, 2020 - WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning. FILE PHOTO: Medical personnel in protective suits wave hands to ...

Apr 20th, 2020 - KINSHASA (Reuters) - Ibrahim points down to the empty main boulevard in downtown Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, which has resembled a ghost town since April 6 when the government imposed a neigbourhood-wide lockdown in response to the coronavirus pand...