This document provides an overview of safe hazardous materials transportation training. It discusses transporting hazardous materials safely, the hazardous materials table for identifying chemicals, required labels and placards, shipping paper requirements, and driver responsibilities for ensuring proper documentation and emergency procedures are followed. The training emphasizes that transporting hazardous materials is serious, as chemicals can cause death if not handled correctly, and outlines key regulations to ensure driver and public safety.

1. Safe Hazardous Materials
Transportation Training

2. Hazmat Overview
• Transporting HM is serious
business
• >13,000 chemical related deaths
annually
• >90% of HM shipped over
highways
• All individuals involved in any
manner with HM transport are
HM employees as defined in
49CFR

3. Hazardous Materials Table
• All hazardous materials are on HM table
• Alphabetical order by proper shipping
name
• Each HM has a unique identification
number
• All begin with UN (United Nations)
• Table begins on approximately p.154 in
HM Guide
• Need product name to use HM Table

4. Column 1 - Symbols
• (+) => Prohibits any description variation
• A => Refers to air transit only
• D => Refers to domestics transit only
• G =>Requires one or more technical
names be entered in parentheses
• I => Refers to international transit only
• W => Refers to water transit only

5. Column 2 - Proper Shipping Name
• Descriptions and Proper Shipping Name
• If do not have name, but have ID number - use
ID Cross Reference chart on p.88
• Numbers are listed in order -- gives you proper
shipping name to cross reference to HM Table

6. Column 3 - Hazard Class
• Each HM is in a Hazard Class
• Refer to p.14-15 to see the classes

7. Hazard Classes
• Class 1 - Explosives • Class 6 - Poisons
• Class 2 - Gases • Class 7 - Radioactive
• Class 3 - Flammable and Materials
Combustible Liquids • Class 8 - Corrosives
• Class 4 - Flammable • Class 9 -
Solids Miscellaneous
• Class 5 - Oxidizers and • ORM-D - Other
Organic Peroxides Regulated Material

8. Column 4 - Product Identification
Number
• Used to be NA prefixes - being fazed out
• New prefix is UN - United Nations
– used globally for uniform referencing
• Each HM has its own unique ID#

9. Column 5 - Packaging Group
• Refers to the least necessary packaging
group required
• Three categories based on degree of
danger
– PG I - Strongest type, any product can be
packed in this type
– PG II - intermediate
– PG III - Only the least dangerous material
may be packed in this type

10. Column 6 - Proper Label Code
• Refers to the hazard warning labels
required for the package
• All HM packages are required to be
labeled
• Labels should be facing out when loaded
on skids

11. Column 7 - Special Provisions
• Refers to the special provisions listing that
begins on page 515
• Should be checked for any special
precautions or information on product

12. Hazardous Substances
• Material including its mixtures and
solutions, in a quantity, in one package,
that equals or exceeds the reportable
quantity listed.
• Appendix A, 172.101 beginning on page
441

13. Hazardous Substance Cont…
• If the quantity exceeds the RQ, the letters
RQ must appear
– Either before or after the description on the
shipping papers
– OR RQ can be in place of the “X” in HM
column

14. When is Placarding Required?
• Depends on TYPE and QUANTITY
• TABLE 1 requires placards in any amount
– refer to page 37
• TABLE 2 (page 37-38) requires placards
when amount exceeds 454 kilograms, or
1,001 lbs.....

15. 1,000 Kilogram Rule
• If aggregate weight of all TABLE 2
materials exceeds 454 kg, but no one
product exceeds 1,000 kg(2,205 lbs) a
DANGEROUS placard can be used in lieu
of the specific placards
• Remember these conversions
– 1,000 kg = 2,205 lbs
– 454 kg = 1,001 lbs

16. Example Placard Problem
• Trailer contains the following HM:
– 2,000 lbs Class 8 Corrosives
– 600 lbs Class 5.1 Oxidizer
– 1,010 lbs Class 2.1 Flammable Gas
• What placards would be required?
+ + OR

17. Example 2
• 3,000 lbs Class 8 Corrosive
• 600 lbs Class 5 Oxidizer
• 1,010 lbs Class 2.1 Flammable Gas
• What placards are required?
– Either specific placards for each as before,
OR
+

18. REMINDER!
• TABLE 1 REQUIRES HAZARD CLASS
SPECIFIC PLACARDS IN ANY AMOUNT!

19. Large Quantities of a Single HM
• Shipments containing only one type of HM
in non-bulk that are:
– Each package is marked with the
proper shipping name & ID#
– Aggregate gross weight of the HM is
4,000KG (8,820 lbs) or more
– All HM is loaded at one facility
– Vehicle contains no other HM
• Must have the ID# placed on each side
and each end of the vehicle
• Does not apply to Class 1, Class 7, or to
non-bulk packages for which an ID number
is not required

20. Shipping Papers
• All HM except • NEW! - First 4 entries
ORM-D requires must be in this order
shipping papers (IHSP) – NOTE*
Voluntary compliance
– UN Identification
begins 1/1/08,
Number mandatory compliance
– Proper Shipping begins 1/1/2013
Name • Only quantity can be
– Hazard Class abbreviated (lbs..., kg)
– Can be placed 1st or
– Packaging Group last
– Quantity
10 Drums-Hydrochloric Acid/Class 8/UN1789/III/500 gal

21. Shipping Papers Change
• A new item to watch for in the Basic
Description in addition to the information
on the previous slide
– Must list the number and type of packages
• i.e. “12 drums” or “12 boxes”, etc.
– This is different than listing the quantity by
mass or volume

22. Mixed Shipments
• 3 ways to identify HM in mixed shipments
– List HM first on shipping papers
– Place an “X” in HM column
– Use contrasting ink color

23. Shipping Paper Location
• Within reach of the driver when restrained
in seatbelt
• Tabbed or on top of any other paperwork
• *Should be in plain view*
• When driver leaves vehicle
– Left in driver’s seat, OR
– Left in driver’s door pouch

24. Driver’s Responsibilities
• Check for proper paperwork
• Check for proper placards and labels
• Proper Load securement
• Check tires according to regulations
• Know vehicle attendance requirements

25. Emergency Response Guide
• Contains information on the following:
– Fires
– Leaks
– Spills
– First Aid
• Must be in driver’s possession while
transporting HM

26. ERG Cont...
• Has 4 color coded sections
– Yellow: when ID# is known
– Blue: when product name is known
– Orange: Emergency response info guides
– Green: Isolation Distances
• Note: highlighted entries are inhalation
hazards, refer to the green section

27. Final Precautions
• This training is not meant to make you a
hazmat emergency responder
• Things you cannot see can kill you
• Things you cannot smell can kill you
• Fire can be invisible
• Do not take unnecessary risks that may do
severe harm to yourself or others

28. Thank You for Attending
Hazardous Materials Safety Training