Hazmat incidents can significantly shape how the public perceives the risks from transporting dangerous goods over rail while drawing media and regulatory scrutiny, and impacting a railroad’s operations, safety performance record, and reputation.

Does your railroad understand where the risks of hazmat release are concentrated in your network? Can your railroad measure how these risks are changing over time? Did your railroad’s safety investments directly address the most critical network locations with heightened safety risks? How well is your railroad’s portfolio of strategies performing for reducing these risks?

SMARTER Hazmat™ is an innovative and customizable solution to address these needs. SMARTER HazmatTM helps you evaluate, monitor, and mitigate dangerous goods risks and helps you prioritize railroad safety investments and operating practices. Any railroad can use this big data-driven, quantitative framework to measure and track systemic hazmat safety risk as well as pinpoint localized and recurring risk hotspots – so you know where and when to act. By measuring and monitoring network-wide risk through its industry-vetted methodology, SMARTER Hazmat™ advances a railroad’s safety strategy with next generation decision-making capabilities to efficiently allocate safety investment budgets, ensure defensible compliance, and realize improvements in safety performance and drive competitive edge.