State and Federal regulations require that you label hazardous material containers before shipping. On-demand DOT labeling can mean that you only need to stock just one or two blanks, not waste money on dozens of preprinted label designs. There is much less risk that your inventory of label blanks become obsolete.
Consult your Subsidiary Hazard labels table and your labeling distributor for the latest regulations. In particular, review the new 215A requirements. UN and DOT rules changed as of October 1, 1996.
OSHA is hereby issuing a final rule that requires employers who receive a package, transport vehicle, freight container, motor vehicle or rail freight car which contains a hazardous material and which is required to be marked, placarded, or labeled in accordance with the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Hazardous Materials Regulations, to retain the markings, placards, and labels on the package, transport vehicle, freight container, motor vehicle or rail freight car. Such markings, placards and labels generally must be retained on packages until the packaging is sufficiently cleaned of residue and purged of vapors to remove any potential hazards and retained on transport vehicles, freight containers, motor vehicles or rail freight cars until hazardous material which requires the marking or placarding is removed therefrom. This rule is issued pursuant to section 6(b) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act) and in accordance with
section 29 of Public Law 101-615, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990 (HMTUSA).
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