TDG Regulations and Tunnels
The World Could be Fun if Everything Jived Together Let’s start on a tangent to our main topic of Regulations today. The word “jive” is used when talking about music, mainly jazz and swing, whereas the...
View ArticleConsignor’s Certification – TDG Update of Standards
I Declare! Transport Canada has generated a fair amount of discussion with the introduction (to be mandatory July 15, 2015) of Section 3.6.1, the “Consignor’s Certification”, to the Transportation of...
View ArticleNew Year – New TDG Amendment
TDG Regulations Update – Gazette II, December 31, 2014 For those that thought the amendments to the Canadian Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR) had settled down following the July...
View ArticleERAP Changes Potentially Extend Beyond Rail Tankers
Are You Implicated? Wording of amendment includes highway tankers, IBC, for UN1993, etc. Recently, I wrote about the December 31 (SOR/2014-306) amendment to the TDG regulations, which contained a...
View ArticleTDG Amendments Takes Effect
Have You Made Your TDG Updates Yet? The holiday rush for 2014 is over. Our parties have been held, and our gifts are unwrapped and appreciated. But if you’re a dangerous goods shipper or carrier, you...
View ArticleTransport Canada Correction & Clarification
Hot off the press: Expected ERAP Rail Tanker Correction As expected, the Dec. 31/14 TDG amendment was corrected in today’s Canada Gazette II to specify that rail ERAP requirements apply to rail tank...
View ArticleTwo New Transport Canada Alerts — ERAPs & E-cigarettes
Transport Canada clarifies interpretation of 10,000 L ERAP requirement & warns of “e-cigarette” hazards in checked baggage. ERAPs Further to my blogs of January 12, 13 & 28th – Transport Canada...
View ArticleTDG Amendment- TC 117 Rail Tankers – ERAP Correction: Canada Gazette II May 6?
Coincident with a press conference given by Lisa Raitt (Canadian Minister of Transportation) and her US counterpart, Anthony Foxx (US Secretary of Transport), Transport Canada published an amendment to...
View ArticleTDG TC 117 Rail Tankers/ERAP Clarification- CGII, May 20 (no question)!
Transport Canada’s May 1st announcement of a TDGR amendment was formalized in the May 20th edition of CGII. This amendment, SOR/2015-100 (“TC 117 Tank Cars”), phases in the requirement for the upgraded...
View ArticleDG (Including Wastes) Shipping Documents/Manifests- “ISHP”
“Harmonization” July 1 (or June 30, depending on how you count “6 months”), 2015 represents a change in the required order of presenting the shipping description elements on a Canadian dangerous goods...
View ArticleTDG Proposed Changes: BioPackaging – Reporting
Transport Canada recently shared proposed changes affecting the official standard for Class 6.2 packaging and the Part 8 reporting requirements. The former is by reference to a proposed update to the...
View ArticleError in TDG Schedule 1!
It was brought to our attention that the entry for UN2809 in Schedule 1 was incorrect. Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, Schedule 1 lists: UN2809 with the proper shipping name MERCURY,...
View ArticleThe Importance of Packing Instructions
Simon Says . . . It’s All About Following Directions An experienced shipper knows that in order to be compliant for HazMat or Dangerous Goods shipping, packaging designs have to be subjected to...
View ArticleKnow Your Exemptions – the 500 Kilogram Exemption (TDG Section 1.16)
Like most regulations based on the UN Recommendations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Canada’s “Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations” (TDG) includes a number of exemptions. These provide...
View ArticleThe Carrier Has The Final Say
Have you ever prepared a shipment that you were 100% certain was done according to regulation, only to have it refused by the carrier? The reason may be because carriers can put in place requirements...
View ArticleWhen an Ordinary Box Isn’t so Ordinary After All
We have all used a fiberboard (or cardboard as most people call it) box to ship something. It may have been a box of gifts for a friend or family member, or a package of merchandise for a client at...
View Article“Light My Fire” – Calculating Flash Points for Flammable Liquids
One of the most common tests for determining hazard classification is the flash point. This humble piece of physical information is defined in various ways in various regulations, but generally is the...
View ArticleHarmonization Continues (No, not that one!) – TDGR Consultation Proposal
…or “Preliminary consultation on International Harmonization Updates to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations”: Transport Canada, after a busy 2014/2015, has begun a public consultation on...
View Article“Sea Change” Amendment to TDG Proposed- Criteria Requiring IMDG Code Clarified
Hot on the heels of the Feb. 2 Transport Canada proposed amendment (“Harmonization Updates”) posting, there was another (Feb. 9) proposal for consultation to clarify the intent of Part 11 regarding...
View ArticlePublic Notice – Transport Canada Standard TP14877 Update
A public notice has been posted by Transport Canada. The info is below: The Transportation of Dangerous Goods Directorate will begin work on updating the Transport Canada Standard TP14877, “Containers...
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