This is a guest app review by EMT, Firefighter, and HazMat Coordinator Brent Jensen. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here . Searchable ERG is an application developed by STKI Concepts for Android phones. As the applications name implies, it is the 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) in a searchable format. You might be familiar with the ERG, from a HazMat Awareness class, or a portion of your EMT curriculum. This ERG App is much simpler and even easier to use for $1.49 in the Android Market. The Searchable ERG App offers a disclaimer that it doesn’t include the instructions for using the actual guidebook materials, but that’s alright. Anyone who has looked at the paperback or PDF ERG will pick this up quickly. The only user customizable option is font size. I have set mine to X-Large for scene usage, but in the classroom I could set it back to a smaller, less obscene size for scrollablity. Once you set that up, the program is self-explanatory. The search feature is easy to use, and accessible anywhere in the program by the search hard-key on your phone. Working with the program I found myself returning to the search instead of browsing for entries because of its auto-suggest feature. For instance, by typing in “Hydrogen” I now have a list of all products that begin with hydrogen in their name. Likewise, typing in “190” gives me all of the product names in the 1900 to 1909 UN number range, helpful if you can only see the beginning of the number. Browsing by Material Name, ID (UN) Number, and Guidebook number are also options . All material is presented in expandable lists, which make efficient use of screen real estate. Once you enter the product page, you have 3 or 4 lists you can expand

Original Source of App Review: Searchable Emergency Response Guide (ERG)