Australian Explosives Industry and Safety Group Inc (AEISG)

Big bang theory

MULTIMODAL The third session of the current biennium saw the UN experts faced with an extremely long agenda. The number of papers on Class 1 issues meant that the Working Group on Explosives alone needed three days to work through everything. Some major changes have resulted

Road tanker

You’re on your own now

EXPLOSIVES How can regulators manage the dangerous goods transport chain effectively if they have no one at senior level with the technical knowledge needed to make expert decisions? This loss of expertise is causing major headaches for explosives manufacturers, as Ken Price* explains

Forklift lifting up metal drum

Under new management

MULTIMODAL As a first step towards the preparation of the 18th revised edition of the UN model regulations at the end of next year, the UN experts did make some changes to the text in response to complaints

Testing in the Laboratory during Manufacturing

Fill yer boots

MULTIMODAL The UN experts needed to play hurry-up during their final session of the 2009-2010 biennium. Any proposals that did not come with sufficient technical justification were summarily bounced back for resubmission

Palais des Nations

Head to head

GHS Clarification of some problematic areas was agreed by the GHS experts at their final session of the 2009/2010 biennium but they may find it harder to deal with some more contentious problems during the coming two years

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