5Goods too dangerous to be transported

5   Goods too dangerous to be transported

 (1) A placard for goods too dangerous to be transported must:

 (a) be in the form shown in Figure 6; and

 (b) display the words ‘UNSTABLE’, ‘GOODS’, ‘TOO DANGEROUS’ and

                        ‘TO TRANSPORT’ on separate lines as shown in Figure 6:

          (i) in black upper-case text; and

  (ii) in lettering of the kind shown in Figure 6; and

 (c) when used in a placard for packaged dangerous goods — have sides of at   least 100 mm; and

(d) when used in a placard for dangerous goods in bulk — have sides of at least 250 mm.

(2) The background colour for the top half of the placard must be the colour described as Canary 2 in paragraph Y11 of AS 2700-1996.

(3) The background colour for the bottom half of the placard must be the colour described as Signal Red 2 in paragraph R13 of AS 2700-1996.

 

 

 

Figure 6            Goods too dangerous to be transported placard…

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Appendix 3 Standards and Codes

 

Standards And Codes Applicable To All Classes Of Dangerous Goods

National Code of Practice for the Preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets [NOHSC:2011], Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra

 

National Code of Practice for the Labelling of Workplace Substances [NOHSC:2012], Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra

 

Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (ADG Code), Federal Office of Road Safety, Canberra (Version 6)

 

AS 2243  Safety in laboratories

AS 2430  Classification of hazardous areas

AS 3833 The storage and handling of mixed classes of dangerous goods in packages and intermediate bulk containers

AS/NZS HB76  Dangerous Goods Initial Emergency Response Guide

AS/NZS 4360  Risk management

AS 1020  The control of undesirable static electricity

AS 1319  Safety signs for the occupational environment

 

Standards and Codes specific to one particular class of dangerous goods or to specific types of dangerous goods within a class

 

Class 2   Gases

AG 501  Australian Gas Association Industrial and Commercial Gas Fired Appliances Code of Practice AG 501