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Twenty-eight local emergency response personnel and Union Pacific Railroad employees recently completed a UP-sponsored tank-car safety course at Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) in Pueblo, Colo.

During the five-day, 40-hour course, attendees received classroom training on various subjects, such as how to identify tank-car types and fittings during an emergency. The course also included hands-on exercises in assessing tank-car damage, repairing cars, transferring hazardous materials from damaged equipment, and using protective clothing and breathing apparatus.

During a “final exam,” attendees participated in three simulated haz-mat accidents to understand how a railroad handles an emergency and how to work safely on rail property.

Since 1986, UP has sponsored 38 five-day training programs at TTCI that have been attended by more than 785 local emergency responders and more than 145 UP workers. The railroad also offers local haz-mat training programs, which since 1979 have trained more than 160,000 emergency response personnel.