HM-215O FINAL RULE NOTICE Earlier this week, on May 11, 2020 the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced the finalization of the much-anticipated rulemaking (HM-215O). If you’re not sure what that is, fear not. …
COVID-19 Training In uncertain times, unreliable information always rears its ugly head. Often, creating just as much harm as the actual source of fear itself. With the advancements in technology it can often be a double edge sword, allowing for …
Here is an update from the DOT on COVID-19 situation: DOT and PHMSA issue new enforcement policy regarding recurrent training requirements in response to COVID-19 27 March 2020 On 25 March 2020 the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and …
COVID-19 Training In uncertain times, unreliable information always rears its ugly head. Often, creating just as much harm as the actual source of fear itself. With the advancements in technology it can often be a double edge sword, allowing for …
How to Stay Trained During the Pandemic! COVID-19, Coronavirus, Boomer-Doomer or whatever you call it is officially here and a world-wide pandemic per Director Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO). In response, the Occupational Safety and Health Organization …
Training Intervals Have you ever missed a payment because it wasn’t set up on auto draft? Or maybe you have been late on a payment because you simply forgot when its due. We all have been there before. Human beings …
The Difficult Reality of Truck Drivers and Marijuana Almost everything today is faster than it was a few years ago. We have faster cars, faster cell phones, faster ways of getting medical results. One thing that has not kept pace …
No Warp Pipe Here On February 6, 2020, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced a critical safety proposal for energy pipelines. In doing so, the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a Notice …
Slow up, and Let Em Grow up! In light of the recent pair of derailments in Saskatchewan, Transport Canada (TC) has issued a Ministerial Order (MO) to slow trains carrying more than twenty cars bearing dangerous goods (known as “key …