Transport of dangerous goods

Authorization requirements

These are put in place to ensure only authorized persons may receive the material and that the appropriate permits and licences are obtained to ensure an expedient transfer of material. Failure to obtain these authorizations may result in your shipment being stuck in customs, seized and the involvement of the RCMP or other regulatory bodies.

Situations which may engage this additional step are those that involve:

controlled goods
biological samples and/or pathogenic, infectious materials
radioactive materials
international shipments
Dangerous goods shipments

Contact the following persons for assistance

Controlled Goods	ext. 3056	[email protected]
Biological Materials	ext. 3153	[email protected]
Radioactive Materials	ext. 3057	[email protected]
International Shipments	ext. 3058	[email protected]
Faculty representative please contact	ext. 3058	[email protected]

Transport of dangerous good placards

Dangerous goods safety marks give a quick identification of dangerous goods in the event of an emergency situation such as an accident or an accidental release of dangerous goods from a means of containment.

Dangerous goods safety marks are also an awareness tool for people involved in transportation, including truck drivers, train crews, loading dock workers, reception personnel at a lab or a hospital and aircraft loading personnel.

Generally, labels are displayed on small means of containment and placards are displayed on large means of containment.

Each class of dangerous goods has assigned to it a label, a placard or both. The labels and placards are illustrated below. Also illustrated is the DANGER placard, the oxidizing gas label and placard, the elevated temperature sign, the fumigation sign, the marine pollutant mark and the orange panel. The size requirements for the signs, the marine pollutant mark and the orange panel are also provided.

For a complete read and listing of other placards visit the Transport Canada TDG clear regs act (section 4)

Class 1.1, 1.2, 1.3	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, numbers, letter and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Orange: Background The symbol is an exploding bomb. ** place for division – to be left blank if explosive is a subsidiary class * place for the Compatibility Group Letter – to be left blank if explosive is a subsidiary class
Class 1.4	Label and Placard Black: Numbers, letter and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Orange: Background
Class 1.5	* place for the Compatibility Group Letter
Class 1.6	N/A

Class 2.1, Flammable Gases	Label and Placard Black or White: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: Background The symbol is a flame.
Class 2.2, Non-flammable and Non-toxic Gases	Label and Placard Black or White: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Green: Background The symbol is a gas cylinder.
Class 2.3, Toxic Gases	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard White: Background The symbol is a skull and crossbones.
Oxidizing Gases	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Yellow: Background The symbol is a flame over a circle ( Flaming “O”).

Class 3 flammable liquids	Class 3, Flammable Liquids	Label and Placard Black or White: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: Background The symbol is a flame.

Class 4.1, Flammable Solids	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: 7 red stripes resulting in 13 equally spaced vertical stripes White: Background The symbol is a flame.
Class 4.2, Substances Liable to Spontaneous Combustion	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: Lower half White: Upper half The symbol is a flame.
Class 4.3, Water Reactive Substances	Label and Placard Black or White: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Blue: Background The symbol is a flame.

Class 5.1, Oxidizing Substances	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Yellow: Background The symbol is a flame over a circle ( Flaming “O”).
Class 5.2, Organic Peroxides	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Yellow: Background The symbol is a flame over a circle ( Flaming “O”).

Class 6.1, Toxic Substances	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard White: Background The symbol is a skull and crossbones.
Class 6.2, Infectious Substances	Label Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge White: Background The symbol is three crescents superimposed on a circle.

Class 7, Radioactive Materials Category I – White	Label and Optional Placard Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: One vertical bar following the word “RADIOACTIVE” White: Background The symbol is a trefoil. The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is: CONTENTS .................. CONTENU ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ
Class 7, Radioactive Materials Category II – Yellow	Label and Optional Placard Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: Two vertical bars following the word “RADIOACTIVE” Yellow: Upper half of background excluding the border White: Lower half of background and the border The symbol is a trefoil. The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is: CONTENTS .................. CONTENU ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ
Class 7, Radioactive Materials Category III – Yellow	Label and Optional Placard Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard Red: Two vertical bars following the word “RADIOACTIVE” Yellow: Upper half of background excluding the border White: Lower half of background and the border The symbol is a trefoil. The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is: CONTENTS .................. CONTENU ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ

Class 7, Radioactive Materials

Category I – White

Label and Optional Placard
Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard
Red: One vertical bar following the word “RADIOACTIVE”
White: Background
The symbol is a trefoil.
The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is:
CONTENTS .................. CONTENU
ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ

Class 7, Radioactive Materials

Category II – Yellow

Label and Optional Placard
Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard
Red: Two vertical bars following the word “RADIOACTIVE”
Yellow: Upper half of background excluding the border
White: Lower half of background and the border
The symbol is a trefoil.
The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is:
CONTENTS .................. CONTENU
ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ

Class 7, Radioactive Materials

Category III – Yellow

Label and Optional Placard
Black: Symbol, number, text and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard
Red: Two vertical bars following the word “RADIOACTIVE”
Yellow: Upper half of background excluding the border
White: Lower half of background and the border
The symbol is a trefoil.
The additional text under the word “RADIOACTIVE” is:
CONTENTS .................. CONTENU
ACTIVITY ..................... ACTIVITÉ

Class 8, Corrosives	Label and Placard White: The number 8, upper half of background and the border Black: Lower half of the background, except for the border and the number, and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard The symbol is liquid spilling from two glass vessels and attacking a hand and a metal bar.

Class 9, Miscellaneous Products, Substances or Organisms	Label and Placard Black: Symbol, number and line 5 mm inside the edge for a label and 12.5 mm inside the edge for a placard White: Background The symbol is 7 black stripes resulting in 13 equally spaced vertical stripes in the upper half.

Shipping and receiving

TDG requires personnel who are preparing for shipment, shipping or receiving hazardous goods to be trained. Training certificates expire every three (3) years. In addition, persons shipping by Air require IATA training.

Personnel who do not possess a TDG certificate are not permitted to prepare, receive or sign shipping documents for dangerous goods.

Use the following chart as a guide for training requirements for shipments:

	Infectious	Chemicals	Radioactive
Air	1, 2, 3	1, 2	1, 2, 4
Ground	1, 2, 3	1	1, 2, 4

Basic TDG Course for ground shipments (prerequisite for all other sessions)
TDG/IATA for air shipments (prerequisite for infectious and radioactive materials classe goods)
TDG for infectious goods (Class 6.2)
TDG for Radioactive Materials (Class 7)

Shipping

The University's TDG Shipping Declaration must be used when sending hazardous goods. A copy of the shipping declaration must be sent to ORM (ext 5892).

If shipping radio active materials, the Radiation Safety Specialist must be contacted. Strict regulations apply to nuclear safety officers who ship these materials.
If shipping infectious materials, the Biosafety Specialist must be contacted. Strict regulations apply to these materials.
ORM makes all arrangements for shipping hazardous waste.

The Shipping Declaration form contains must be completed for transport and must generally include certain items. Note: there are additional requirements for certain Classes. Refer to your TDG training to correctly complete the form.

Receiving

Verify that the package is not leaking or otherwise damaged. If there is leakage, contact your ORM representative who will contact the sender's emergency number. Never accept a damaged or leaking package.
Confirm that the packing slip matches the contents. If they do not match, the intended recipient of the package must confirm that the contents will not be accepted before returning the package to the supplier.
Sign the Sender's Shipping Declaration provided by the delivery company once the package is confirmed to be in good order. You must have a valid TDG certificate in order to sign. If the carrier does not provide a document to sign, you are not required to request one unless your Purchasing Department requires one. Keep a copy for your files as a Transport Canada inspector can request to view these documents
Store the package according to WHMIS requirements until the receiver picks up the package.

The University of Ottawa is registered with CANUTEC (A division of Transport Canada). They provide a telephone service to help with emergency response situations relating to TDG.

Contact CANUTEC 24 Hours/Day
Emergency: (613) 996-6666 (call collect) Cellular: * 666 (Canada only)
Information: (613) 992-4624 (call collect) Fax: (613) 954-5101

Links

Transport Canada

IATA -International Air Transport Association

Training

In order to inform employees of the TDG requirements and perform its duty as an employer, TDG training is mandatory for all University of Ottawa personnel preparing for shipment, shipping, or receiving dangerous good.

The training will cover among other subjects:

the use of classification criteria and shipping names;
shipping documents and paperwork;
dangerous goods safety marks;
how to react in case of an accidental release;
safe handling and transportation practices, including the characteristics of the dangerous goods;
proper use of any equipment used to handle or transport the dangerous goods;
special requirements regarding biohazadous and radioactive goods; and
shipping hazardous waste according to Ontario regulations.

Sequence of training requirements

Basic TDG Course for ground shipments (prerequisite for all other sessions)
TDG for Drivers
TDG/IATA for air shipments (prerequisite for infectious and radioactive materials classe goods)
TDG for infectious goods (Class 6.2)
TDG for Radioactive Materials (Class 7)

Register for TDG courses

Transport of dangerous goods

Authorization requirements

Contact the following persons for assistance

Transport of dangerous good placards

Class 1, Explosives arrow_drop_down

Class 2, Gases arrow_drop_down

Class 3, Flammable liquids arrow_drop_down

Class 4, Flammable solids, substances liable to spontaneous combustion and substances that on contact with water emit flammable gases (water reactive substances) arrow_drop_down

Class 5, Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides arrow_drop_down

Class 6, Toxic and infectious substances arrow_drop_down

Class 7, Radioactive materials arrow_drop_down

Class 8, Corrosives arrow_drop_down

Class 9, Miscellaneous products, substances or organisms arrow_drop_down

Shipping and receiving

Shipping

Receiving

Links

Training

Sequence of training requirements