Mapping Hazardous Materials and supporting analysis of routing, treatment, storage, disposal and releases is a powerful use of GIS in Public Safety. This analysis supports safety and allows users to identify EPA ID numbers, placards, locations, names, addresses, County/DEC region, handling method, and quantities received.

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Crawl Mapping Hazardous material storage locations, transportation routes and chemical and quantity information is the foundation of HazMat Analysis. Tracking and inspecting these payloads promotes community safety and Public Safety responsibility. A good start is mapping the HazMat reportable quantity sites in your jurisdiction along with dates of last inspection. A good addition to these hard copy maps are approved HazMat transportation corridors through the community.	Walk The next step in Hazardous Material Analysis and Tracking is to integrate the inspection, location, and route information into an online map format to be shared internally to your agency and with your (approapriate) partner agencies. Focus here should be on timely reporting and status of HazMat transportation and storage as well as integrating Agency information with similar information in neighboring jurisdictions.	Run Extending the HazMat online/dynamic mapping to incident support is the next step. Creating systems that HazMat Teams can reference when responding to incidents is the key. Additionally, providing an ‘upload’ capability that allows a HazMat team to run a plume model (like CAMEO/ALOHA) and upload the results into the web mapping allow other First Responders to see the current release information in order to facilitate incident safety, the public safety, and securing of the scene.
Example: US Hazardous Material Routes	Example: US Hazardous Material Routes	Example: Plume Spread Map

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