Transportation

Rapid Analysis, Assessment, & Response Following Transportation Incidents

Since our founding in 1997, EC has been responding to train derailments and other transportation incidents involving hazardous materials. In order to respond to the hazardous potential of derailments, our on-call team of toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and medical staff maintain vigilant readiness to help keep the community and response personnel safe from any potential harm. Our personnel has responded to hundreds of derailments and trucking spills, and we are often relied upon by regulatory agencies to help solve environmental crises.

Emergency response services include identification of involved chemicals, analysis of environmental fate, determination of safe levels in air, water, soil, or other media, education of local health providers regarding the involved substances, risk communication, and general incident management.

Chemical Identification

The EC team has extensive experience and a depth of equipment and field analytical resources to assist in the identification of what chemicals may be involved in a release. We are leaders in answering: What are the combustion by-products, what will be generated with unintentional mixing of chemicals, and what is the best way to measure for the chemicals of concern in the environment?

Determination of Safe Levels in Air, Water, Soil, or Other Media

Following a transportation incident that results in a chemical leak, the determination of safe levels across all relevant media is paramount. We have extensive experience conducting all necessary studies and assessments in order to establish safe level baselines, which in turn inform the overall response to the crisis.

Analysis of Environmental Fate

When a transportation incident occurs, unique environmental conditions can have a massive impact on the breadth of exposure. We use sophisticated tools and tenured expertise to analyze the totality of pollutant dispersion and determine its potential impact on communities and the environment as a whole.