{"id":1240,"date":"2016-12-12T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-11-27T19:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:46:18","slug":"new-dgr-1jan17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/new-dgr-1jan17\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dangerous Goods regulations from Jan 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dgr-58-significant-changes.pdf\">You can view the full list of changes here<\/a>, but this list might be a little handier. From Jan 1st, the new edition of the <strong>IATA\u00a0Dangerous Goods Regulations<\/strong> (Edition 58) will be applicable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replacing the existing lithium battery handling label with a new multi-modal lithium battery mark to be phased in over two years, with a deadline of December 2018 (Figure 7.1.C)<\/li>\n<li>Introducing a new Class 9 dangerous goods label specifically for lithium batteries, to be phased in over two years, with a deadline of December 2018 (Figure 7.3.X)<\/li>\n<li>Many new and modified special provisions<\/li>\n<li>Allowing shippers to assign a substance to a class or division different to that shown in the List of Dangerous Goods (IATA DGR 4.2), subject to approval by the appropriate national authority<\/li>\n<li>Adding classification criteria for polymerizing substances into Division 4.1<\/li>\n<li>Adding new UN numbers and Proper Shipping Names for \u201cpolymerizing substances,<\/li>\n<li>liquid and solid, stabilized\u201d (PI 459) and \u201cpolymerizing substances, liquid and solid requiring temperature<\/li>\n<li>Updating Special Provision A104 for UN1230, Methanol that requires all packages containing methanol to bear a Division 6.1 toxic hazard label (in addition to the Class 3 flammable label)<\/li>\n<li>Changing the documentation requirements for hazmat air shipments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dgr-58-significant-changes.pdf\">IATA DGR Changes from 1st Jan, 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can view the full list of changes here, but this list might be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}