What Goods Might Be Considered As Dangerous?

What goods might be considered as dangerous?

Dangerous goods are defined as substances which are:

• flammable;
• corrosive;
• oxidizing;
• explosive;
• combustible;
• water-reactive.
• Due to their properties, dangerous goods can cause explosions, fires, serious injury, and property damage, or even death.

This is the reason why the transportation of such substances is controlled by various government bodies.

What are the international classes of dangerous goods?

There are various thoughts on what exactly should be considered as dangerous goods.

However, there was a huge need to introduce a single system for international use.

And, such a system was created by the United Nations: the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) replaced various dangerous goods classifications previously used around the world.

According to this act, dangerous goods can be classified by:

1. Physical danger:

• Explosives (fireworks, TNT, nitroglycerin).
• Gases (acetylene, hydrogen, propane, neon).
• Flammable liquids (gasoline, acetone, kerosene and diesel).
• Flammable solids (nitrocellulose, matches, sodium, calcium, potassium).
• Self-reactive substances (thermally unstable solids liable to undergo a strongly exothermic thermal decomposition even without the participation of oxygen).
• Pyrophoric substance (spontaneously combusting substances are those solids or liquids that even in small quantities are liable to ignite within five minutes after coming into contact with air).
• Self-heating substances (is one which, by reaction with air and without energy supply, are liable to self-heat).
• Oxidizing agents and organic peroxides (benzoyl peroxides, cumene hydroperoxide, calcium hypochlorite, ammonium nitrate).
• Radioactive substances (uranium, plutonium).
• Corrosive substances (sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide).
• Dangerous goods which can be put in the previous classes (for example, self-inflating life rafts, asbestos, dry ice, air-bag inflators).

Note: examples mentioned above are not the only products in these classes. They were added for better understanding of the topic.

2. Danger to human health:

• Acute toxicity.
• Skin corrosion.
• Skin irritation.
• Serious eye damage.
• Eye irritation.
• Respiratory sensitizer.
• Skin sensitizer.
• Germ cell mutagenicity.
• Carcinogenicity means.
• Reproductive toxicity.
• Specific target organ toxicity.
• Aspiration hazard.

3. Danger to the environment:

• Acute aquatic toxicity.
• Chronic aquatic toxicity.
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What is a dangerous goods agent?

Dangerous goods agent is a specialist who works in the hazardous goods transportation sphere.

Such a person/company can help you to prepare needed documentation for delivery and customs clearance, as well as perform handling and storage services.

Bansar staff has trained agents to ease your hassle while dealing with hazardous materials and goods.