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What’s Wrong with These Pictures? Display of Hazardous Material Placards

Class 5 Oxidizer placard
With exceptions, placards will be required when transporting HazMat

There are exceptions, but in most cases the transportation in commerce of any quantity of a hazardous material will require the display of placards on each side and each end of each of the following:

  • Bulk packaging
  • Freight container
  • Unit load device
  • Transport vehicle; this includes a motor vehicle (see below for a definition)
  • Rail car

When it comes to placards, compliance with the Hazardous Material Regulations (HMR) requires three things:

  1. Determine what placards are required pursuant to 49 CFR 172.504.
  2. Select a placard of the correct specifications at 49 CFR 172.519.
  3. Display the placard properly according to the requirements of 49 CFR 172.516.

This article will address the requirements of 49 CFR 172.516 Visibility and display of placards. (more…)

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