Packaging.Transporting hazardous materials

Step 1—Selection of Scenarios/Issues for Evaluation This step should be in alignment with the scope of the QRA and includes defining the modes of transport, hazardous material movements, package designs, and routes or route segments that will be evaluated or compared. 

Transporting packages of hazardous material that have not been secured against movement. Various 3,700 and up. 

Carrier Responsibilities — A carrier may only accept for transportation and transport hazardous materials that have been packaged as described above. 

Designs, manufactures, fabricates, inspects, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a package, container, or packaging component that is represented, marked, certified, or sold as qualified for use in transporting hazardous materials in commerce ... 

Use. This section is principally useful to personnel within your organization who ship or transport hazardous materials to other places. You should know that you just cannot send a hazardous material to someone unless you use authorized shipping procedures—special containers, packaging, and labeling requirements must be met. 

Packages of hazardous materials that are damaged or found leaking during transportation, and hazardous materials that have spilled or leaked during transportation, may be forwarded to their destination or returned to the shipper in a salvage drum in accordance with the regulations. 

For the containers inside that outer packaging, each must be marked with a GHS-style label defined at 1910.1200(f)(1). Currently, OSHAdoes not regulate the outer shipping container based on a September 13,1993 Letter of Interpretation. However, employers must follow all applicable Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials labeling requirements. 

Personal practices and hygiene in the laboratory Laboratory techniques and practices Decontamination, sterilization, and disposal Packaging, shipping, and transporting hazardous materials Fire safety First aid... 

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. 

CERCLA also requires certain spills to be reported by the owner/shipper to the NRC. To alert drivers and emergency responders to this requirement, the letters RQ must appear on shipping papers if the transporter is carrying, in one package, a substance on DOT S Hazardous Materials Table in an amount equal to or greater than the RQ shown in the table. Two additional requirements apply if hazardous waste is involved ... 

Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) provides the Department of Transportation the authority to regulate the packaging and movement of hazardous materials. 

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, passed in 1975, is the primary law governing transportation of chemicals and hazardous materials. The act includes a comprehensive assessment of the regulations, information systems, container safety, and training for emergency response and enforcement. The regulations apply to any person who transports, or causes to be transported or shipped, a hazardous material or who manufactures, fabricates, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a package or container which is represented, marked, certified, or sold by such person for use in the transportation in commerce of certain hazardous materials. ... 

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. 

Under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, fuel oils are designated as hazardous substances subject to special requirements for packaging, labeling, and transportation (DOT 1989a, 1989b). 

DOT Hazardous Material Transportation Act Fuel oils are designated as hazardous materials which are subject Appendix A) DOT to requirements for packaging, shipping, and transporting Yes DOT 1989a (49 CFR 172.101 1989b... 

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