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BASICs: Improving Hazardous Materials Compliance 13


Communication link #2: to drivers on what placards to display, papers to carry, and how to respond in an emergency.


Driver training is one of the six required hazmat employee training categories and management should give directions that only drivers with a hazardous materials endorsement to their CDLs should operate a truck hauling hazardous materials.


Still, even with the required training and the hazardous materials endorsement, several of the most frequent hazmat violations either relate to the driver or are discoverable by the driver. Those frequent hazmat violations include:


• Improper placards. No matter who places the placards initially, the driver must cross-check the placards against the shipping papers for accuracy. Placards are the principle means of hazmat communication.


• No USDOT hazmat carrier registration number in the truck. Again, management should direct that a copy of its hazardous materials carrier registration is in every truck used to transport hazmat, but the driver should verify its presence.


• Shipping papers and emergency response information not readily accessible. Law enforcement conducting a hazmat inspection will ask to see both the shipping papers and the emergency response information for that load. If a driver has to dig through a duffel bag for them, a hazmat violation will be noted. After all, how can hazmat details be communicated, particularly in an emergency, if the paperwork cannot be readily located?


• Hazmat freight not properly blocked and braced. No matter the freight being transported, a driver should always check how it was loaded. That’s simply good trucking. But, surprisingly, failure to properly secure hazmat freight is among the most frequent of hazmat violations.


• Unnecessary placards displayed. Talk about communication! Once the driver delivers any hazmat freight, the corresponding placards must be removed or covered. Otherwise, the truck is sending the wrong signal to law enforcement upon inspection and to first responders when a hazmat incident occurs.


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