transport of dangerous goods and risk management - Kirilo Savić

TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 64Each material (goods) is assigned the following from the list: official name, identification UN number (four-digitnumber), class label for additional danger (if any) and a number of specific requirements (primarily in terms ofpacking). The UN number for one dangerous material (goods) is the same no matter the means of transport.The items of the stated list can be pure chemical materials, compounds, solutions, mixtures, almost all products orgroup matter or products having similar characteristics. In some cases the same substances, in differentconcentrations (in a mixture) or in a different state of matter, receive different UN numbers, which indicates theirdifferent hazardous features.In the UN List of Dangerous Goods, hazardous materials and articles which are not included in the first eight dangerclasses, are included as other hazardous materials within class 9 as materials which can be dangerous to the naturalenvironment.Identification and classification of hazardous goods on the basis of the directives in the sector of dangerousmaterials transportThe Council Directive 94/55/EC 32 on reconciliation of the law of the member states in relation to the hazardousgoods transport by road (ADR 10 ) and The Council Directive 96/49/EC 33 on the reconciliation of the law of themember states in relation to the hazardous goods transport by rail (RID 11 ) constitute the documents which withinAnnex define in details the types of hazardous goods, general requirements (according to classes), conditions,transport equipment, packing etc. The directive does not provide the member states with the right to establishspecific safety requirements for the national and international transport of hazardous goods by rail or road. Incomparison to the SEVESO Directive 34 , the stated directives do not leave enough space for national legislation inthat area. There is a similarity between the ADR 10 and RID 11 and SEVESO Directive 34 . However, the level ofprecision (details) of these directives gives an advantage to the content of national documents, which should be theresult of the SEVESO Directive 34 (together with by-laws).As early as 1956, the Report of the competent committee of the UN was adopted, which referred to theclassification and labelling of hazardous materials. Later, the duties of this committee were taken over by theEconomic – Social Council of the UN 35 – ECOSOC (United Nation ECOnomic and Social Council) with theheadquarters in Geneva.Further activities on solving the problem of international regulations of hazardous materials transport were taken byorganisations and commissions which are specialised in certain types of transport and passing enactments withinthis domain.RID 11 is a set of international regulations on hazardous materials transport by rails. These regulations representAppendix 1 of the International Convention on Transport of Goods by Rail – CIM 36 . Working further on theelaboration of the regulations on hazardous materials transport is entrusted to the expert committee – OCTI 30 , withthe headquarters in Bern.ADR 10 is a European Accord on international transport of hazardous materials in road traffic. For furtherelaboration of this Accord the competent UN Commission for Europe, UN – Committee for Internal Transport –Working Party for the Hazardous Goods Transport – UN – ECE 37 , with the headquarters in Geneva, is in charge. Atthe same time, while reconsidering the regulations on hazardous materials transport on roads, the EuropeanEconomic Commission (ECE 36 ) reconsidered the problem of hazardous materials transport on the internal navigablewaters.ADN 8 is a European Accord on international transport of hazardous materials by internal navigation. For theinternal navigation, the classification of goods that is accepted is the same as that for the RID – system, with thebordering numbers from 6000 – 7999 being reserved.