Hazardous Materials Transportation Training Modules …

1 STUDENTVERSION Materials Transportation Training ModulesMODULE 4 Module 4 Student Manual2 Version Module 4 ScriptVisual1 NarrativeWhen an accident causes Hazardous Materials in transportationto be released, the vehicle operator, emergency responseteams, and the surrounding community all face imminentdanger. Emergency response teams must accurately identifythese Materials as quickly as possible. To aid emergencyresponse teams, DOT developed a system of placarding forthe rapid identification of Hazardous Materials .

2 Emergencyresponders are trained to look for these warning placarded or unplacarded hazmat shipments placethe lives of these individuals and others at risk. This module willreview how placards are used to communicate valuableinformation to these emergency responders, and others whodeal with these Materials on a daily completing Module 4 on Placarding, you should be ableto: Identify the requirements for placarding, and anyexceptions or modifications allowed with theserequirements. Examine the two placarding tables in (e) todetermine placarding requirements. Identify the requirements for placard placement,visibility, and 4 Student ManualModule 4 Version 34If you offer for Transportation or transport any hazardousmaterial subject to the HMR, you must comply with theapplicable placarding requirements of Part 172 Subpart F Placarding.

3 Placards are placed on bulk packagings, freightcontainers, transport vehicles, and rail cars to alert the publicof the potential dangers of the product being transported andto guide emergency responders in the event of an incident oraccidental release. One of the exceptions to these placardingrequirements provided for in the HMR involves the sevengroups of Materials listed here: Infectious substances; Hazardous Materials classed as ConsumerCommodities; Hazardous Materials offered for Transportation asLimited Quantities when identified as such on theshipping papers with the words Limited Quantity or Ltd Qty following the basic description; Hazardous Materials prepared in accordance with of the HMR; Hazardous Materials which are packaged as smallquantities under the provisions of of the HMR; Combustible liquids in non-bulk packagings.

4 And Class 9 Materials when transported between places inthe United States other than through a foreign general rule to apply when determining the placardingrequirements for Hazardous Materials is simple if a hazardousmaterial is contained within a transport vehicle, bulk packaging,freight container, unit load device, or rail car, then a placardrepresenting the hazard class for the Hazardous material mustbe displayed on both sides and each end, regardless ofquantity. The regulations allow other approaches to placardingunder specific circumstances. These are exceptions to thisbasic 4 Student Manual4 Version Module 45 Professor Fed s Knowledge Check 1 Instructions: Select the best answer from the four choices provided.

5 You will have two chances tocorrectly answer this are not required for infectious substances, Hazardous Materials authorized to be offered aslimited quantities, small quantities of certain Hazardous Materials , _____ , Hazardous Materials prepared in accordance with , and combustible liquids in Hazardous substancesB. Hazardous wastesC. ORM-D materialsD. Radioactive materials6No person may affix or display on a packaging, freightcontainer, unit load device, motor vehicle or rail car anyplacard described in the HMR unless: the material being offered or transported is ahazardous material ; the placard represents a hazard of the hazardousmaterial being offered or transported.

6 And the placarding conforms to the requirements of , any sign, advertisement, slogan (such as DriveSafely ), or device that, by its color, design, shape or content,could be confused with any placard prescribed in the HMR 4 Student ManualModule 4 Version 57 These restrictions do not apply to a bulk packaging, freightcontainer, unit load device, transport vehicle or rail car whichis placarded in conformance with the Transportation ofDangerous Goods (TDG) Regulations, the InternationalMaritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, or the UnitedNations (UN)

7 Restrictions also do not apply to the display of aBIOHHAZARD marking, a HOT marking, or anidentification number on a white square-on-point configurationin accordance with the each bulk packaging, freight container, unit load device,transport vehicle or rail car containing any quantity of ahazardous material , you must placard each side and each endwith the type of placards specified in Tables 1 and 2 of and in accordance with other placardingrequirements of the HMR, unless a specific placardingexception is provided for that quantity of material or hazardclass or division. Do not confuse these two placarding tableswith the Hazardous Materials Table found in Whendetermining which placards must be used and what options areavailable, both placarding tables must be considered.

8 Youmay placard a Hazardous material shipment, even when anexception makes it unnecessary, if the placarding otherwiseconforms to the requirements of the HMR for the hazardspresented. First, we ll look at the basic placardingrequirements set out in Table 1 and Table 2. Then, we ll lookat some of the exceptions and options. Select each button tolearn more about the placarding requirements associated withTable 1 and Table 4 Student Manual6 Version Module 49 Table 1 lists Hazardous Materials by category for whichplacarding is required for any quantity of material contained inthe freight container, unit load device, transport vehicle, or railcar.

9 No material , for which Table 1 applies, is duplicated inTable 2. Each material will be exclusive to only one of the twotables. Placarding requirements for hazard class or divisionnumbers and are divided between Table 1 and Table 2based on additional description information. Placarding forhazard class 7 Materials is limited to Radioactive Yellow IIIlabels only and exclusive use shipments of low specific activityand surface contaminated an example, any quantity of Sulfur dioxide, , UN1079being shipped will be placarded based on Table the proper shipping name for this material indicates thatit falls under the hazard class or division number , andTable 1 regulates all hazard class or division Materials any quantity of Sulfur dioxide must be placarded with a POISON GAS placarding requirements for Division , Organic peroxidematerials are split between Table 1 and Table 2.

10 All , Type B liquid or solid, temperature controlled organicperoxides are covered by Table 1, while all the other , Organic peroxides are covered by Table 2. Displayed hereis a portion of the HMT with some of the Organic peroxideentries. The first two entries are listed as Organic peroxide typeB, liquid, temperature controlled and Organic peroxide type B,solid, temperature controlled and are placarded according toTable 1; while the remaining Organic peroxide entries are allplacarded according to Table 4 Student ManualModule 4 Version 711 The placarding requirements for Division Materials are splitbetween Table 1 and Table 2.