UK: Transport by road

United Kingdom
26/11/1999
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The Health and Safety Executive has issued a certificate of exemption which allows the operator of a road vehicle which is being used for the carriage of dangerous goods in packages in a “swap body” to be exempt from the requirement to display any danger sign or hazard sign on the swap body. Swap bodies are types of containment for the transport of cargo and can be transferred between road or rail modes. Regulations currently require the display of danger signs, or subsidiary hazard signs on containers and swap bodies when used for the carriage of dangerous goods in packages. This exemption will relax this requirement for swap bodies in the case where a swap body is being treated as an integral part of a road vehicle only. This should assist those operators who tend to use swap bodies in this way. The exemption will cease to be available as soon as the swap body is removed from the road vehicle. The certificate of exemption is issued under the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Regulations 1996, as amended by the Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999.
(HSE, July 1999)

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