It’s quite likely that at one time or another you have had to deal with the off-site shipment of empty packagings. Most manufacturing facilities experience this when they empty various non-bulk (usually 55-gallons or smaller) packagings of their contents and…
As a shipper of hazardous materials, you are likely comfortable with routine HazMat shipments: Offer a hazardous material for transportation to a carrier. Carrier transports HazMat to destination. HazMat received at destination. Sometimes, however, you’re faced with a non-routine situation: …
When determining a proper shipping name for your hazardous materials shipment it is important to select from the Hazardous Materials Table at 49 CFR 172.101 the most specific name that best describes the hazardous material to be shipped. Proper shipping names should…
I have the opportunity during my weekly nationwide training events to meet with a variety of HazMat Employers who usually are also Shippers, since they “offer for shipment” a hazardous material to a Carrier who then transports it in commerce. For most persons, their experience…
A question from an attendee of one of my recent training events forced me to re-think my strongly-held belief in the correct formatting of the proper shipping description for a hazardous materials shipment. The question asked was, “Is a comma…