New Online Resource Helps Businesses Cope with Complex Hazmat Shipping Regulations and Avoid Costly Penalties
Businesses that manufacture, distribute, or transport products qualifying as hazardous material (also known as "hazmat" or "dangerous goods") are challenged with new regulations and heightened government enforcement. HazmatLaw.com, a new online resource is designed to help businesses meet this challenge. The site provides an overview of basic regulatory topics, advanced compliance issues, and is updated daily with regulatory developments and news stories.
(PRWEB) October 6, 2004 -- Shipping hazardous materials is a risky, but
necessary activity for many businesses. The hazmat regulations are complex and
the costs of mistakes are substantial. Our post-9/11 world makes this regulatory
maze even more confusing and expensive; in the last year Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) hazmat enforcement investigations have increased 300
percent. Compounding the government’s more aggressive enforcement posture is a
wide-ranging increase in new hazmat shipping regulations. The variety of
products that qualify as hazmat – from chemicals and fuels to certain engines,
pharmaceuticals and basic consumer commodities, like perfume, makes things even
more complicated.
With the launch of HazmatLaw.com, an online guide to
the U.S. hazardous materials transportation regulations, the business community
now has a transparent and timely resource on this critical
issue.
HazmatLaw.com provides a big-picture explanation of the U.S.
hazmat regulations from the business person’s perspective. Updated daily, the
website includes headlines and links to hazmat news stories and a section
devoted to regulatory developments. The website addresses all major regulatory
responsibilities faced by businesses that ship hazmat items, from the basics on
classification and packing group designation to advanced topics such as
regulatory exemptions and government enforcement.
The government
estimates that there are more than 800,000 hazmat shipments per day in the U.S.
(more than 40,000 of which are via air). Increased cargo security screening
conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now uncovers many
more hazmat items that would previously have gone undetected. According to
HazmatLaw.com publisher and Washington, D.C. attorney Adam Cramer “most hazmat
mishaps are honest, avoidable mistakes.” Cramer, who has represented domestic
and international businesses in hazmat enforcement and counseling matters for
many years, explains that “slip-ups occur by highly sophisticated businesses as
well as those that don’t even realize that their packages qualify as hazmat.”
Though many companies receive excellent training on the more technical
aspects of hazmat shipment, there is frequently a disconnect between what is
learned in the classroom and how to make safe and prudent hazmat shipping
decisions in the context of running a business. HazmatLaw.com is a resource
designed to give executive decision makers added context when deciding on
packaging, shipping and distribution strategies, rethinking how to reduce
regulatory compliance costs, and defining the nature of relationships with a
company’s business partners.
For information: http://www.hazmatlaw.com or
Contact: e-mail protected from spam bots
Phone:
202.462.5070
HazmatLaw.com is published by the Cramer Law Group PLLC,
a Washington, DC law firm specializing in hazardous materials transportation
regulatory counseling and representation matters for domestic and international
businesses.
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