Airsafe Transport Training Australia

What's in the box?
When you sign an air waybill or bill of lading you are signing a legal document stating that, unless otherwise declared, the shipment does not contain dangerous goods. If you package a shipment, then you know exactly what’s being transported. However, if you are accepting cargo packaged by someone else, then there’s the potential for mistakes, and for undeclared DG to slip through the safety net. So, question everything. What’s in the box?

We can’t control a hazard if we don’t know it’s there.

To promote DG Awareness you can download, print, and use clean versions (without our marketing blurb) of the "If all movies were about DG" posters from our website https://www.airsafe.com.au/if-movies-wer-e-about-dg.

PS: Do you know the movie?

Happy New Year! It’s time to step away from the cake. The festive season is done and dusted, and now for a short paws. 🐾(Yes, I know it should have been pause).

OK, that’s long enough! Back to work! Because we all know that freight never stops rolling, flying, sailing. Graham and Mischa have been hard at work creating the next in the movie poster series: If all movies were about DG (and made by dogs) and their latest offering is now available. Don’t forget that if you’d like to download and print the posters, clean versions (without our marketing blurb) can be found on our website https://www.airsafe.com.au/if-movies-wer-e-about-dg

If all movies were about DG
Airsafe IT Wizard, and inhouse artistic genius Graham, has been hard at work creating a series of movies posters combining two of our favourite things: Dangerous goods and the doggos (don’t tell the cat).

The posters will be rolled out one at a time to let the moral of each story percolate. Those of you who have visited Airsafe at our offices in Perth will recognise Mischa, one of our two Health and Well-being Professionals, in the starring role. Can you identify the movies that inspired these posters? Always looking for ways to get the DG conversation started, we begin the series with:

PAWs – Do you know what’s below deck?

Many dangerous goods transport incidents and accidents occur when shipments are not declared. Vessel operators need to know when dangerous goods are in a shipment so the load can be planned and carried in accordance with the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code and the vessel’s document of compliance. For example, did you know that not all DG can be carried below deck? Only when DG shipments are accurately declared in accordance with the IMDG can the logistics chain handle, load, and stow in a way that manages the risk of carrying dangerous goods.

A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Don’t be the weak link. Declare shipments of dangerous goods.

Fangs for your attention.
The Airsafe Team

https://www.airsafe.com.au/post/dangerous-goods-by-sea-do-you-know-what-s-below

Really enjoyed the getaway to Albany. When your photos are staged, before and after.

GHS03 have you seen the “O” in Oxidizer’s

The dangerous materials definition of an oxidizing agent is a substance that can cause or contribute to the combustion of other material.
- Oxidizing gases, category 1
- Oxidizing liquids, categories 1, 2, 3
- Oxidizing solids, categories 1, 2, 3

DID YOU KNOW….?

The GHS pictogram for an OXIDIZER HAZARD, has an “O” in the middle of the pictogram that represents “OXYGEN” being supplied to feed the fire by the oxidizing agent.

The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is an internationally agreed-upon standard managed by the United Nations that was set up to replace the assortment of hazardous material classification and labelling schemes previously used around the world. “GLOBAL HARMONIZED SAFETY SYSTEM for CLASSIFIED CHEMICAL LABELLING” – Core elements of the GHS include standardized hazard testing criteria, universal warning pictograms, and harmonized safety data sheets which provide users of dangerous goods with a host of information. The system acts as a complement to the UN Numbered system of regulated hazardous material transport. Implementation is managed through the UN Secretariat.

Need to no more…?

AIRSAFE has a course.
“Hazardous Chemicals Management for Warehouse Personnel”
http://www.airsafe.com.au/hazardous-chemicals-management-warehouse-personnel/

Upcoming training in Melbourne, Victoria. Dangerous Goods Refresher and Initial training available. Also Dangerous Goods by Sea re-qualification.

Blast from the past - our 1961 edition of the IATA DGR. Kindly given to us by Richard Elbourne one of the original IATA DG members.

Change from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) to Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
There is a lot of confusion about this subject. In brief what has happened is the following:
- In 2009 the United Nations introduced GHS (Globally Harmonised system of Classification and Labelling of workplace chemicals)
- Prior to the introduction of the GHS system there was no single format for an MSDS.
- When the GHS standards were introduced the standards for writing data sheets was also changed to specify a single format and to incorporate the GHS system.
- Manufacturers had 5 years, from 2011 to 2017, to make the changes as data sheets should be reviewed every 3-5 years.
- United Nations countries signed an agreement to make the changes from MSDS to SDS in their countries by the year 2017.
- These changes mean that chemicals cannot be manufactured, distributed or sold in those countries unless there is an SDS as it includes the GHS changes.
For information by country see this link:
https://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/implementation_e.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xbu8p5vRPfKStl4bJS64xoDKiEixXpcA3q6JGD3b-NsZCX-i-Fn613J0