• English Emergency Response Guide helps satisfy 49 CFR 172.602 — DOT's requirement that hazardous materials shipments be accompanied by emergency response info
• ERG guide aids in emergency preparedness, planning, and training
• Emergency Response Guidebook formats come in standard size (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") or pocket size (4" x 5-1/2")
• Formerly known as the North American Emergency Response Guidebook

2016 Emergency Response Guidebook Summary of Changes from 2012 ERG

• “How to use this Guidebook” instructions are now in a flowchart
• Many sections have been expanded and/or revised, including:
  • Shipping documents (Papers)
  • Table of markings, labels and placards and initial response guide to use on-scene
  • Rail car and road trailer identification charts (including more detailed information on each)
  • Pipeline transportation
  • Protective clothing
  • Improvised explosive device (IED) safe stand off distance chart
  • Glossary
  • Emergency response telephone numbers
• New sections have been added:
  • Local emergency response numbers (to be filled by user)
  • Table of Contents
  • Globally harmonized systems (GHS) of classification and labeling of chemicals
  • Information about emergency response assistance plans (ERAP) for Canadian users
• Index list of dangerous goods in order of ID number (yellow-bordered pages), and the Index list of dangerous goods in alphabetical order (blue-bordered pages):
  • Addition of all new dangerous goods listed in the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods up to the 19th revised edition
• Emergency response guides (“Guides”/orange-bordered pages):
  • Revision of some guide information
  • Two guides have been added for adsorbed gases
  • Identification of potential emergency response assistance plan (ERAP) products for Canadian users
• Table of initial isolation and protective action distances (Green-bordered pages):
  • Updated initial isolation and protective action distances (Tables 1 and 3) based on new toxicity data and reactivity research
  • Added “Estimating wind speed from environmental clues” for Table 3