Labeling of hazardous materials

CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS CHANGES IN VIEW... 

The DOT has established slandards for the packaging and labeling of hazardous materials offered for shipment by public transportation. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has set standards for... 

An authoritative guide to the safety labeling of hazardous materials and products is issued by the American National Standards Institute. See toxicity flammable material label. 

There are several ways to classify hazardous materials. Chapter 14 discussed the DOT classification and labeling of hazardous materials. As noted, the DOT modified its system to be consistent with the United Nations system (see Notes at the end of this chapter). 

The Ccirriage of hazardous materials by air is die concern of the Restricted Articles Board of the International Air Transport Association (lATA). The lATA Restricted Articles Regulations place limitations on the tv pes and quantity of clicniicals tliat are carried imd specify requirements for packaging and labeling. 

The basic purpose of HMTA is to ensure safe transportation of hazardous materials through the nation s highways, railways, and waterways. The basic theme of HMTA is to prevent any person from offering or accepting a hazardous material for transportation anywhere within this nation if that material is not properly classified, described, packaged, marked, labeled, and properly authorized for shipment pursuant to the regulatory requirements. 

This book is intended for chemists, toxicologists, laboratory technicians, manufacturers, safety professionals and government personnel involved in environmental and industrial safety and health matters. The ability to identify the actual manufacturers of hazardous materials is important where detailed background information is required when investigating chemical accidents, exposures, product contamination, faulty labeling and other incidents involving chemicals and their effect on workers or the environment. 

The Dept of Transportation has combined the shipping regulations which used to be separately administered by the US Coast Guard (Title 46, CFR Part 146) and the Federal Aviation Regulations (Title 14, CFR Part 103) (Ref 46). The new regulation provides for a uniform vehicle placarding and documentation system. They replace rail express criteria with a hazard assessment for aircraft operation, and uniform criteria for all shipping modes have been established. The list of hazardous materials has been completely revised and improved directions for their use have been included. The use of prescribed colors for labels is now mandatory (Ref 46)... 

Familiarize yourself with shipping regulations and shipping container labelling requirements as you may be personally liable for improper shipment of hazardous materials (i.e. acid and base-preserved samples or PCBs). 

Operations dealing with hazardous materials involve storage, and transport. Space does not permit a detailed account of the topic, except to outline some aspects.10 Some aspects of transportation of hazardous materials consist of regulatory control, classification, packaging and labelling, transport containers, hazards and hazard assessment as well as emergency planning. 

On November 18, 1988 the Labeling of Hazardous Art Materials Act (Public Law 100-695, also known as LHAMA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. This law, which is enforced by the CPSC, amended the FHSA to require manufacturers of art and craft materials to determine if their products pose any chronic health hazards and identify those hazards. If a chronic hazard exists, appropriate warning labels must be placed on the product including the ingredients causing the hazard, and directions for safe use. 

Warning labels aid in the identification of chemical hazards during shipment. Under regulations of the DOT, chemicals that are transported in the United States must carry labels based on the UN classification. DOT placards or labels are diamond shaped with a digit imprinted on the bottom corner that identifies the UN hazard class (1 to 9). The hazard is identified more specifically in printed words placed along the horizontal axis of the diamond. Color coding and a pictorial art description of the hazard supplement the identification of hazardous material on the label the artwork appears in the top corner of the diamond (Figure 1-6, A). 

Waste disposal from CERCLA sites must be managed in accordance with regulations outlined in subtitle C of RCRA. For instance, generator/regulator statutes would regulate wastes taken off-site for treatment. This would entail the proper labeling of all material as well as hazardous-waste manifests. In addition, any waste treated or stored on-site must be handled in accordance with TSDFs. 

HAZWOPER training for any worker who may discover a chemical emergency. Risks of hazardous materials, likely occurrence of releases, recognizing hazardous materials, emergency situations, specialists, types of hazardous materials, labels, placards, and spill reporting. 

Addresses HM-181 requirements, hazard class recognition, DOT table of hazardous materials, placards, marking and labeling, and packaging. 

The labels known today date back to April 1967 with the establishment of the Department of Transportation (DOT) and its Office of Hazardous Materials Operations as the regulator for the transportation of hazardous materials. 

The following are Munsell notations and Commission Internationale de L Eclariage (CIE) coordinates which describe the Office of Hazardous Materials Regulation Label and Placard Color Tolerance Charts in Tables 1 and 2, and the CIE coordinates for... 

A color on a placard, upon visual examination, must fall within the color tolerances displayed on the appropriate Office of Hazardous Materials Label and Placard Color Tolerance Chart (see 1 172.407(d)). 

This book discusses in some detail the various purposes of requirements for labeling in the chemical industry indentification, warning, instruction, and so forth. In most cases—drugs, consumer products, transportation of hazardous materials—labeling requirements are expected to serve one or more of these purposes. It is safe to say, however, that in no case is labeling as central to the function of a class of chemicals nor as intertwined with their regulation as it is with pesticides. 

Pesticides in transit in bulk are subject to the labeling, marking, and placarding provisions of 49 CFR 170-189, concerning transportation of hazardous materials. A copy of the accepted EPA label must be attached to the papers that accompany the shipment and must be left with the consignee at the time of delivery. Similarly, pesticides stored in bulk, in the custody of the user, must have a copy of the EPA s approved label attached securely to the container in the immediate vicinity of the discharge valve. 

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