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driving commercial vehicles

Transporting dangerous goods
fast fact
Dangerous goods present a serious potential hazard to people who handle
If you’re going to work with them, the public and the environment. People who have anything to do with
dangerous goods, your dangerous goods have significant legal responsibilities and must be properly
current employer must certify trained and appropriately certified.
that you’ve had appropriate
training. Always carry your When transporting these goods, you must ensure all shipping documents are
training certificate with you complete, correct and readily available in the cab. These documents must
when transporting dangerous accompany the dangerous goods shipment.
goods.
Report immediately any incident related to your dangerous goods cargo, like
spills, leaks, fires, explosions or damaged containers to the nearest police
fast fact agency or the Provincial Emergency Program. Your rapid action may help
prevent an incident from becoming serious.

Report immediately any There are nine classes of dangerous goods: explosives, gases, flammable
incident involving dangerous liquids, flammable solids, oxidizing substances and organic peroxides,
goods in B.C. by calling the poisonous substances and infectious substances, radioactive materials,
local police or the Provincial corrosive substances and miscellaneous products or substances.
Emergency Program at
1-800-663-3456.

Class 1 Class 2.1 Class 2.2 Class 2.3
Explosives Flammable gas Compressed gas Toxic gas

Class 3 Class 4.1 Class 4.2 Class 4.3
Flammable liquids Flammable solids Spontaneous Dangerous when wet
combustion

Class 5 Class 6.1 Class 6.2 Class 7
5.1 Oxidizing substances Toxic substances Infectious substances Radioactive
5.2 Organic peroxides

These are examples of some
of the dangerous goods
placards that may appear on Class 8 Class 9 Mixed load
the sides and both ends of Corrosive Miscellaneous products,
transport trucks. substances or organisms

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