Encompsol HMMS (BOLDER Project) Receives Hammer Award

Vice President Gore's Hammer Award provides recognition to teams of federal employees and their partners whose work resulted in a government that works better and costs less.

The Award is the Vice President's answer to yesterday's government and its $400 hammer. Fittingly, the award consists of a $6.00 hammer, a ribbon, and a note from Vice President Gore, all in an aluminum frame. More than 1000 Hammer Awards have been presented to teams comprised of federal employees, state and local employees, and citizens who are working to build a better government.

Hazardous Materials Management System

The Hazardous Materials Management System is innovative software that takes the nine different emergency plans that a facility may be required to prepare by federal environmental laws (EPCRA, RCRA, CWA, etc.), condenses it onto a One-Stop form, allows the reporting facility to prepare the data in an electronic format, and report the real time information to the fire department.

The HMMS is an innovative approach to the problems associated with facility emergency planning. It involves the latest in computer technology, a CD-ROM.

It addresses the need of having the chemical inventory and facility data available for firefighters to use at the scene of the hazardous materials incident. It also allows one plan, an effective one-stop report for all eight emergency plans.

The Hazardous Materials Management System was completed in late 1998. It was promoted at the Computer and Electronics Sector Subcommittee of the Common Sense Initiative. The software was the stated goal of the Arizona (BOLDER) Oversight Committee. This stated goal was accomplished.

The HMMS software can be used anywhere and is designed to be replicated. It will be widely shared and used nationwide for emergency planning.

The BOLDER Project, which resulted in the Encompsol HMMS, was a successful collaborative effort between the members of the BOLDER A.O.C. (Arizona Oversight Committee), who represented industry, community groups, emergency responders, regulators, and educators.

The clarity and effectiveness of the Hazardous Materials Management System is exactly its point. Using and implementing the HMMS software, fire fighters and emergency responders greatly enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency response, especially because they know the precise, real-time information about a facility and its potential chemical hazards.

The long-term benefits to the environment include more effective and efficient emergency response, planning, and preparedness, which translates into less damage to the environment and improved safety for emergency responders.

The BOLDER Committee and the Hammer Award recipients consists of:

1. Special Operations Chief Ron Dykes of the Phoenix Fire Department;
2. Daniel Roe, Executive Director of the Arizona Emergency Response;
3. Robert Spencer, Director of the Maricopa County Local Emergency Planning Committee;
4. Steve Brittle, President of Don't Waste Arizona, Inc;
5. Steve Bold of Hadco-Phoenix;
6. Dr. Ron Perry of the Phoenix Fire Department (and Arizona State University);
7. Michael Gregory of Arizona Toxics Information;
8. Brian Tobin of the Phoenix Fire Department (union representative);
9. Dale Anderson of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality' s Emergency Response Unit;
10. Georgia Bramwell of the Phoenix Fire; and
11. Fire Marshal John Gardner of Chandler Fire Department.

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