explosives

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

Sticking to their guns

GHS The decisions taken by the GHS experts can often affect the transport regulations and those in the transport sector are keeping a close eye on its deliberations on corrosivity criteria. At their second meeting of 2011, the GHS experts gave little ground on this potentially awkward requirement

Road Signs in Europe

Over to you

ROAD/RAIL Many of the issues that the RID/ADR/ADN joint experts are called upon to debate are of such a technical nature that matters have to be passed on to the standards-setting bodies. Such practice raises its own set of problems

Hoyer gas container in Werkstatt

Blast off

EXPLOSIVES It has been evident for some time that the tests used to determine the classification of fireworks are not as reliable as they could be.

Converging parallels

MULTIMODAL It is obvious that those who work in dangerous goods need to be trained but it had proved tricky to specify exactly when this training should take place and who should oversee untrained personnel. This was just one of a range of contentious issues tackled by the UN experts at their December meeting

Australia to update explosives code

The Australian Forum of Explosives Regulators (AFER) has released a draft Australian Code for the Transport of Explosives by Road and Rail, third edition (The Australian Explosives Code) for public comment

Give it time

The UN experts, having decided to cut short their December 2007 session due to a shortage of submissions, ended up passing several topics on to the July 2008 meeting for final decisions. However, some new entries were agreed for the Dangerous Goods List and work on IBC refurbishment could generate some significant changes

IGUS EPP Meeting & CIE Conference 2013

Start Date: 
07/04/2013 - 12/04/2013
Location Detail: 
Oviedo

Annual meeting of the Explosives, Propellants and Pyrotechnics (EPP) subcommittee and annual conference of the International Group of Experts on the Explosion Risks of Unstable Substances (IGUS).

Website www.igus-experts.org/nextmeet.htm 
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