Chapter 5.4 of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (2012 Edition) indicates the requirements of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the description of a dangerous good on a shipping paper (referred to in the IMDG Code as a dangerous goods…
What’s on that Truck? The Identification of Hazardous Materials in Transportation
Hazardous materials are a common fixture in our modern lives and an essential ingredient in many of things we take for granted; like drinking carbonated soda from the fountain at our favorite restaurants. Well, the HazMat has to get to…
Fast Facts About Ethanol and the Hazardous Material Regulations of the PHMSA
Some interesting facts about the Ethanol industry from a brochure distributed by Growth Energy Economic Impact: In 2013, the ethanol industry created and supported nearly 400,000 jobs. Moving to E15 would create an additional 136,000 jobs. A recent Louisiana State…
What Does CERCLA Identify as a Hazardous Substance?
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, aka: Superfund or CERCLA, accomplished the following: Provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. Enabled revision of…
Training for a CESQG in Colorado
As a state with an authorized hazardous waste program, Colorado had the ability to make its state regulations more stringent and more broad than those of the USEPA; and it has. The Colorado hazardous waste regulations enforced by the Hazardous…
Packaging Wet Batteries for Transportation – 49 CFR 173.159
The transportation of various fluid-filled batteries containing either an acid electrolyte or an alkaline corrosive battery fluid will require the use of one of the following proper shipping names from the Hazardous Materials Table at 49 CFR 172.101: The first…
Safety Advisory: Packaging and Handling Ebola Virus Contaminated Infectious Waste for Transportation to Disposal Sites
Announcements from regulatory agencies of the US Government in the Federal Register can have a profound impact on your business. Therefore it’s important for you to continuously monitor Federal Register publications for announcements applicable to your operations. I can help…
October 2014 – Rules & Regulations, Proposed Rules, and Notices Regarding the Management of Hazardous Waste and the Transportation of Hazardous Materials
On its website the US Government Printing Office makes a wealth of Federal publications available for review and download; one of these is the Federal Register. Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the…
Use of the Electronic Manifest
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act (e-Manifest Act) was signed into law by President Obama on October 5, 2012. It authorized the EPA to develop an electronic system for the tracking of hazardous waste manifests and create a system…
Special Provision 130 of the Hazardous Materials Table for the Shipment of Batteries, Dry, Sealed, n.o.s.
If the classification of batteries you intend to offer for transportation leads you to this entry in the Hazardous Materials Table of 49 CFR 172.101: Then, you may immediately notice the absence of any information in the Table other than…