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Markings on dangerous goods means of containment help to identify the dangers of the goods inside. The markings provide critical safety information to protect the safety of first responders, drivers, and anyone handling dangerous goods. Markings under Canada’s dangerous goods regulations include, but are not limited to, placards, labels, and markings indicating a package complies with a safety standard.
Offerers/consignors of dangerous goods must ensure means of containment are marked according to the regulations and must provide safety marks to the carrier of the goods if applicable.
Carriers must ensure that the required safety marks are maintained on the means of containment and must remove markings if no longer needed.
In the Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) Regulations, a safety mark includes a design, symbol, device, sign, label, placard, letter, word, number, or abbreviation, or any combination of these things, that is to be displayed:
Labels are typically displayed on small means of containment while placards are typically displayed on large means of containment.
Sizes and colors of markings, labels, and placards are established in the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations. Additionally, the regulations specify where the markings must appear on small means of containment and large means of containment.
Markings must be:
Markings must not be displayed if the marking would be misleading. Markings must not be displayed if the hazard is not present, or if the marking represents a different hazard class than the dangerous goods.
A certification safety mark means a design, symbol, device, letter, word, number, or abbreviation that is displayed on a means of containment or means of transport to indicate it complies with a safety standard. Certain dangerous goods must be carried in means of containment that display a certification safety mark.