[QUIZ] Spot the Fake: DOT Hazmat Rules Edition

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The Hazardous Materials Regulations require hazmat training for all employees who directly affect hazmat transportation safety. That includes labeling hazmat packages, interpreting the hazmat regulations, and selecting packaging for hazmat packages.

Walking through a loading dock is not, on its own, enough to require hazmat training.

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Placards are always required for trucks that carry any quantity of dynamite (Division 1.1) or radioactive (Class 7) materials because all shipments of 49 CFR 172.504 Table 1 materials require placarding. Trucks that carry gasoline in quantities equal to or exceeding 1,001 lbs. also need placards because shipments of 49 CFR 172.504 Table 2 materials require placards in that scenario, and gasoline (Class 3) is a Table 2 material.

Domestic ground shipments of lithium batteries do not require placarding (49 CFR 172.504(f)(9)).

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Initial training must be provided to all hazmat employees prior to performing a hazmat job function or within 90 days of working under the direct supervision of someone who is properly trained and knowledgeable.

Waiting 6 months to provide hazmat training is a surefire way to invite enforcement action from the US DOT PHMSA.

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The HMR requires hazmat employees to complete recurrent training every three years.

The Federal hazardous waste regulations require hazardous waste personnel at large quantity generator sites to complete refresher training annually.

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There are three basic ways that a substance or material can be classified as a hazardous material:

• The DOT specifically classifies it as a hazardous material in the Hamat Table.
• The material meets one of the DOT’s first eight hazard class definitions.
• The material meets the DOT’s definition of a Miscellaneous Class 9 material.

The FDA recalling a product has no impact on whether the material is designated as hazardous.