# Placardset

> Practise the Emergency Response Guidebook lookup: read a placard, an orange panel or a shipping paper, find the guide, the Table 1 distance and the first actions.

Placardset is a training aid; in a real incident follow the current printed guidebook and your employer's plan. Placardset is not affiliated with, endorsed by or produced by PHMSA or the U.S. Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, Mexico's SCT, or any other government, transport agency, regulator, fire service or training body.

## How it works

Each scenario shows a placard, a placard with an orange panel, or a shipping paper line (all drawn by Placardset), with a short situation: spill size, day or night, no fire. The trainee answers four steps, each graded with the miss named and the source page cited: the class or division; the guide number (from the yellow index when an ID number is known, from the placard table otherwise); the distance (Table 1 isolation and protective action distances when the index entry is highlighted green, otherwise the guide's immediate precautionary isolation distance); and the first actions the guide supports. The daily drill has 5 scenarios per local date. The timed run shows 10 ID numbers on a clock.

## Data

- Edition: 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2024), entered 2026-09-27 from the public English PDF (392 pages).
- Yellow index: 2771 rows, 1983 ID numbers, 522 highlighted, printed pages 29 to 86; cross-checked row for row against the blue index.
- Guides: 62 orange guides with each immediate precautionary isolation distance.
- Table 1: the 41 rows on printed pages 290 and 291, checked against the book's text layer.
- Drill set: 68 materials with ID numbers and 8 placard only scenarios; classes from the U.S. Hazardous Materials Table.
- Data entered from the 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2024), produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Transport Canada and Mexico's Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation. Hazard classes from the U.S. Hazardous Materials Table, 49 CFR 172.101.

## Tool pages

- [Home](https://placardset.app/): what Placardset is and how the placard and guidebook lookup drills work.
- [Daily drill](https://placardset.app/drill/): the daily drill: five scenarios with a placard, an orange panel or a shipping paper, graded step by step with the source page cited.
- [UN number lookup](https://placardset.app/lookup/): search the guidebook's yellow index by ID number or name: guide number, name, green highlighting and the printed page.
- [Practice by class](https://placardset.app/practice/): scenario sets for one hazard class, and the timed table lookup run.
- [Projection](https://placardset.app/projection/): class mode: one scenario at projector size, answers revealed on the instructor's cue, printable answer key.
- [Progress](https://placardset.app/progress/): drill totals, accuracy by step, history, JSON and CSV export, and the certificate of practice.

## Guides and references

- [Guide](https://placardset.app/guide/): the guidebook lookup in one page, and the hub for every guide below.
- [How to use the guidebook](https://placardset.app/guide/how-to-use-the-emergency-response-guidebook/): the lookup path from an ID number, a name or a placard to the orange guide and Table 1, step by step.
- [Placard classes explained](https://placardset.app/guide/placard-classes-explained/): the nine hazard classes and their divisions, with our own drawing of every placard and its placard table guide.
- [UN numbers and guide numbers](https://placardset.app/guide/un-numbers-and-guide-numbers/): what the four digit ID number means, how the yellow and blue sections map it to a guide, and the P suffix.
- [Isolation and protective action distances](https://placardset.app/guide/initial-isolation-and-protective-action-distances/): reading Table 1: small and large spills, day and night, Refer to Table 3, and the guide distance for materials not highlighted.
- [Reading shipping papers](https://placardset.app/guide/reading-shipping-papers/): the parts of a hazardous materials shipping description and how each one leads into the guidebook.
- [Hazmat awareness class drills](https://placardset.app/guide/hazmat-awareness-class-drills/): a four lesson plan for awareness level instructors using projection, class sets and the timed lookup run.
- [FAQ](https://placardset.app/faq/): questions about the drills, the data and its edition, grading, privacy and the cost.

## Optional

- [Full reference text](https://placardset.app/llms-full.txt): every guide and the FAQ as Markdown in one file.
- [Premium](https://placardset.app/premium/): the paid plan: what it adds and what stays free forever.
- [Privacy](https://placardset.app/privacy/): what stays on your device (everything).
- [Terms](https://placardset.app/terms/): terms of use; a training aid, not a course, a certification or an incident reference.

## What it is not

- Training aid only. In a real incident follow the current printed guidebook and your employer's emergency plan.
- Placardset is not affiliated with, endorsed by or produced by PHMSA or the U.S. Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, Mexico's SCT, or any other government, transport agency, regulator, fire service or training body.
- Not a course, a certification or a training record under any regulation.
- Any name you type, for a certificate or a class, stays in this browser. Nothing is uploaded.

## Pricing

Free forever, with no account:

- The daily drill, five new scenarios every day
- The UN number lookup over the whole yellow index
- Every guide and the FAQ
- Your running totals, accuracy by step, and the JSON and CSV export and import

Paid plan:

- Practice by class: a set of scenarios for any one of the nine hazard classes
- The timed table lookup run: a new ID number every 30, 20 or 15 seconds
- Projection mode for a class, with the answers revealed on your cue and a printable key
- The session by session history
- The printable certificate of practice

## Notes

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