Complying Dangerous Goods Requirements
Regulation
Any materials, hazardous or non-hazardous, shipped by your company must be prepared for transport in accordance with the various regulatory requirements. We can help to identify what materials are hazardous in transportation, and then help you formulate an action plan to ensure your shipments are properly prepared. Our consulting staff, along with our operations team, have experience in the transport of hazardous materials via all modes of transportation, and understand the real world demands in correctly handling hazardous materials.
- Program Reviews and System Audits
- Safety & Security of DG During Storage, Handling and Transportation
- SDS/MSDS Transportation Classification
- Risk Assessments and Mitigation Expertise
- Road Safety (49 CFR)
- DG Policy and Procedures Development
- Support/Development of Customer’s Dangerous Goods Training Programs
Civiles Penalties
A “civil penalty” is the formal term used in 49 CFR to denote a fine. As you can see in Appendix A to Subpart D of Chapter 107, the government may subject people to this penalty for a great many offenses. There are a few overarching categories for these offenses:
- General requirements (e.g., failing to register as an offeror and pay the registration fee, failing to provide initial or recurrent training to employees)
- Offeror requirements that apply to all hazardous materials (e.g., offering dangerous goods for transport without shipping papers or required packaging and labeling, providing incorrect emergency response information on a shipping paper)
- Offeror requirements that apply to specific hazardous materials (e.g., offering unapproved explosives for transport, offering untested lithium batteries for transport)
People found guilty of committing just one of these offenses may have to pay thousands. 49 CFR 107.329 states that the maximum civil penalty for a single violation is $78,376.
However, this does not apply to violations that result in “death, serious illness or severe injury to any person or substantial destruction of property.” In these cases, the maximum penalty more than doubles to $182,877.