EHS

On the brink

MULTIMODAL As the scope of the UN model regulations extends into new areas, it is no surprise that the UN experts need time to reflect and consult with individuals even more expert in certain areas. By remitting so many papers back for further work, however, the Sub-committee does seem to have left a lot to be decided at this month’s final session of the current biennium

Winning football team

Read all about it!

MULTIMODAL Anyone who hopes that the UN experts will one day complete the Orange Book and leave well alone will be sorely disappointed; as their last session showed, continuing technological developments continue to raise new problems for the regulators to wrestle with

Man inspecting barrels of hazardous goods

From the Porch Swing

My nephew’s favorite color is red.

I suppose that’s true for lots of boys, and probably for the same reason as Jackson’s. Fire engines are red, fire trucks are red, and fire wagons are red. Jackson doesn’t play with model cars, he plays with model ladder trucks and model pumpers and model fire chiefs’ vehicles.

Exception management

CONFERENCE REPORT If the regulations were simpler perhaps there would not be a need for events such as the DGAC annual conference. But they are and there is. And even those who are experts cannot always agree on how to apply them.

DGAC Award Presentation

Coping with the new code

The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code became mandatory as of January 1, 2011, replacing the Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (BC Code).

Belly up

CONFERENCE REPORT Long gone are the days when US regulators and the regulated community felt sufficiently at ease to sit and discuss problems openly.

Inwardly digest

EHS Recent changes to the provisions for the classification and transport of environmentally hazardous substances have caused confusion for shippers and carriers. UK authorities are offering some guidance on how to comply

Hand over the reins

CONFERENCE REPORT There is a new generation of dangerous goods specialists coming through – and about time, too. They need to be brought up to speed on how things are done and, importantly, why they are done that way

Take the plunge

On January 1, 2009 new classification and labelling requirements will come into force for ‘environmentally hazardous substances’ (EHS).

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