Classifying Dangerous Goods Classification of Unpackaged and Packaged Products

In the "Manage Basic Compliance Data" app, the product stewardship specialist starts the process as follows:

• For Unpackaged Products: By creating a new compliance view for the unpackaged product or by assigning it to an already existing compliance view.
• For Packaged Products: By assigning it to an already existing compliance view of the related unpackaged product.
• Assigning transport purposes according to assigned markets and production countries/regions.

As soon as this is accomplished, the dangerous goods specialist sees the products for assessment in the worklists.

Classification requests for unpackaged products can be found in the "My Unpackaged Dangerous Goods" app for processing the "Basic Classification" as follows:

• Selecting the applicable line out of the dangerous goods lists.
• Completing the basic description with, for example, technical names, qualifying words, marine pollutants.

As soon as the dangerous goods assessments of the unpackaged products are released, packaged products can be assessed.

Classification requests for packaged products can be found in the "My Packaged Dangerous Goods" app for processing the "Enclosure-Specific Classification" as follows:

• Specifying dangerous goods package and quantity.
• Specifying the enclosure variant.
• Setting the "transport permission" per mode of transport.
• Finalizing the description for documents.

• Decide whether the product is a "dangerous good" or "no dangerous good".
• Select applicable line out of the dangerous goods list.
• Complete the basic description by adding, for example, technical names, qualifying words, marine pollutants.
• Set the overall transport permission.
• Release the classification.

• Specify dangerous goods package and quantity.
• Specify an enclosure variant (select column out of list) and the transport permission.
• Adjust, if needed, the transport permission per mode of transport.
• Adapt description templates, and, if needed, edit the descriptions.
• Release the classification.

Packaged Products:

• De Minimis Quantity (DQ)
• Excepted Quantities (EQ)
• Limited Quantities (LQ)
• Packaging (P)
• Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC)
• Large Packaging (LP)

Tank, Tank Container, Vessel:

• UN Portable Tank
• UN Bulk Container
• Domestic Tank (e.g. ADR Tank)
• Tank Ship

The enclosure variant defines the permitted means of packaging/enclosure. It represents the step, selecting the applicable column in the dangerous goods list. From this column also requirements for marking/labeling and documentation are derived.

• Decide whether the product is a "dangerous good" or "no dangerous good".
• Select applicable line out of the dangerous goods list.
• Complete the basic description by adding, for example, technical names, qualifying words, marine pollutants.
• Set the overall transport permission.
• Release the classification.

• Specify dangerous goods package and quantity.
• Specify an enclosure variant (select column out of list) and the transport permission.
• Adjust, if needed, the transport permission per mode of transport.
• Adapt description templates, and, if needed, edit the descriptions.
• Release the classification.

As soon as a transport purpose is assigned to the compliance view, the unpackaged product appears in the worklist of the My Unpackaged Dangerous Goods app.

To classify your product, you need to check the classification criteria of your product.

One of the most important information is the analytical composition that you directly see on the Classification Overview screen. You can navigate into the details of each component.

Furthermore, under Related Apps, you can directly navigate to the Physical Chemical Properties.

Find the different tabs to navigate through the physical chemical properties.

With "Back", you can directly navigate back to the Classification Overview screen.

Navigate to the "Basic Classification" tab, on the Overview screen.

Generally, you start classifying the regulation you are most familiar with.

In this example, you are an ADR expert, therefore you navigate to the "Classification Details" screen of ADR.

On the "Classification Details" screen, you make the basic decision whether a product is a "Dangerous Goods" or "No Dangerous Goods".

This decision is done per regulation, because there can be cases, in which a product is regulated only by specific regulations.

If a product is classified as "Dangerous Goods", the next step is to select the appropriate line out of the Dangerous Goods List.

In this value help you find the complete Dangerous Goods List of ADR. This information is stored in the Compliance Requirement of ADR and this content is delivered with the solution.

Here is already filtered by 1993 and you select the appropriate line.

With the selection of the appropriate line out of the dangerous goods list, the "Classification Details" screen is filled out.

Now, you can complete the basic description by adding, for example, a qualifying word as prefix or suffix, technical names.

With "Show More", you can see all fields from the dangerous goods list that are delivered with the solution.

The "Classification Details screens are regulation-specific. This means that each screen contains only the fields that are applicable for a regulation.

The "Technical Name" fields are only shown when a selected UN Number requires technical names.

Up to 3 technical names can be selected.

For ease of selection, the entries of the analytical composition are offered in the first tab.

But you also have the option to select technical names from All Substances, if required in the second tab.

Via the link in the Technical Name column, you navigate to the Manage Technical Names app. In this app, you can enter the specific technical name for the substance, in case the substance name is not suitable for use as a technical name for dangerous goods.

In the Manage Technical Names app, you can create the specific technical name for the substance, to be used for output within the dangerous goods description.

Be aware to create all required translations – in case a translation is missing, the technical name in English is used.

Remark:

The Manage Technical Names app has a specific authorization, so editing technical names can be restricted to authorized users.

The dangerous goods basic descriptions on the "Classification Details" screen are automatically generated by the system according to the requirements described in each regulation.

If you update a field in the "Classification" section, the dangerous goods basic descriptions are immediately updated in all languages.

In case you made changes on the technical name of a substance in the "Manage Technical Names" app, use the "Update Technical Names" action.

Field (1) is the "Overall Transport Permission". You should set this field only to "Forbidden" if there is no packaging/enclosure option that is allowing you to transport the product in accordance to the given regulation.

This field is automatically preset by the

"Transport Permission According to Regulation" field (2) that you find on the "Classification" tab on the "Classification Details" screen. You can overrule this preset.

As soon as one regulation is classified, you have the very efficient "Apply Classification to Other Regulations" action to take over the classification data to all other regulations.

The "Apply Classification from Another Product" action is an alternate option, applicable in case you have a product with a similar dangerous goods classification.

With one step, the system has now applied the data from the ADR regulation to all other regulations and generated the basic descriptions. After this step, in some cases you might need to complete/adjust some regulations.

In the example, CFR 49 is not complete, reportable quantities need to be entered.

See the "Classification Details" screen of CFR 49 as an example.

In this step, you add the reportable quantities.

You can select and assign up to 2 reportable quantity names.

For simplify the selection, the relevant entries from the analytical composition are offered in the first tab.

But you have also the option to see the complete reportable quantity list as defined in CFR 49 in the second tab.

The dangerous goods basic description on the "Classification Details" screen is automatically generated by the system according to the requirements described in each regulation.

Here you can see that the reportable quantity information has been added.

Before you release the basic classification, you can check all dangerous goods basic descriptions with "View all Descriptions" action. This action is available on the Overview screen.

The "Apply Classification from Another Product" action, also available on the Overview screen, provides you another efficient way to classify a new product.

This alternate mass maintenance is applicable in case you already have a product with a similar classification.

If all regulations are entered correctly, you select all regulations and use "Release" action.

With the "Release" step, the system is creating Worklist Entries in the My Packaged Dangerous Goods app, if packaged products are assigned to the compliance view.

Describe the packaging details required for classification of packaged products.

• Decide whether the product is a "dangerous good" or "no dangerous good".
• Select applicable line out of the dangerous goods list.
• Complete the basic description by adding, for example, technical names, qualifying words, marine pollutants.
• Set the overall transport permission.
• Release the classification.

• Specify dangerous goods package and quantity.
• Specify an enclosure variant (select column out of list) and the transport permission.
• Adjust, if needed, the transport permission per mode of transport.
• Adapt description templates, and, if needed, edit the descriptions.
• Release the classification.

As soon as a dangerous goods classification of an unpackaged product is released, the packaged products assigned to the same compliance view will appear in the worklist of the "My Packaged Dangerous Goods" app.

On the Overview screen,you find the packaging details.

The description of dangerous goods package and the quantity of dangerous goods package are a mandatory output on the transport documents.

All descriptions of dangerous goods packages found in the regulations are delivered with the solution.

For selection, you see here the complete description. Behind the scenes a short and a long description is available in singular and plural and the needed translations. You always find an entry for certified packages with a code, (for example 4G and 1A1) and an entry without a code for uncertified packages that are needed for, for example, limited quantities and excepted quantities.

Understand the enclosure-specific classification and labeling.

Select all regulations and use "Specify Enclosure Variant" action.

Here, you can also set the transport permission for all regulations, which you can later adjust, in case the transport is not allowed by all regulations or modes of transport.

Based on the enclosure variant, the system assigned automatically the applicable description template to each regulation, which builds the description for documents.

The description templates and assignment rules are stored at the compliance requirements and delivered as content with the solution.

With the "Determine Labels" action, the system automatically determines applicable labels for selected regulations.

Initially, labels according to the basic classification are applied.

Automated label determination relates to multiple criteria. Here are some examples:

• Regulation
• Enclosure variant
• State of matter

The function can be processed as soon as you’ve specified the enclosure variant.

If needed, you can adapt the automatically assigned description templates by using "Adapt Description Template" action.

For example for IATA, the packing instruction is required on the transport documents, but this column of the dangerous goods list is not yet included in the solution. Therefore, it needs to be added manually.

Another example would be to add the control and emergency temperature for organic peroxides by using the offered placeholders.

You add packing instruction manually or add the offered placeholders to the description templates, as required.

On the Overview screen, a message strip is indicating that a description template has been adapted.

When you navigate to the "Classification Details" screen, you can set and adjust the transport permission per mode of transport.

In the supply chain, the dangerous goods check is considering this transport permission for packaged products classified as dangerous goods.

For this product, Aircraft passenger is forbidden, because only 5L net quantity per package are allowed for passenger and cargo aircraft but for cargo aircraft, the max. net quantity is 60L (as of IATA-DGR 2021), so Aircraft Cargo is allowed.

As a consequence, you assign the handling label "Cargo Aircraft Only".

On the overview screen, you can now check the regulation-specific data. For IATA-DGR:

• Aircraft passenger is forbidden. → Transport permission is restricted.
• In the description for documents, the packing instruction 364 is added. → See the message strip.
• The manually added handling label shows up.

You select the regulations for which you adapted the basic classification and now want to start the automated label determination, then select the "Determine Labels" action.

Check if the system has automatically determined the correct labels and placards. If needed, go to the "Classification Details" screen and adjust manually the labeling and placarding.

Before you release the adapted classification, you can check all dangerous goods descriptions with the "View all Descriptions" action.

You can do this check for different output scenarios to see, if all outputs are correct according to your definitions.

If all regulations are entered correctly, you select all regulations and use the "Release" action.

With the "Release" step, this product can be used successfully in the supply chain processes.

The dangerous goods check in the supply chain is considering the transport permissions of the packaged product.

The description for documents is printed on the supply chain documents.

Learn about dangerous goods detail data of a packaged product.

For dangerous goods being transported under temperature control, you need to maintain the applicable control temperature and emergency temperature, which must be disclosed in the documentation.

You can enter zero values and negative values. Please notice the following:

• If no unit of measure is entered, the value is considered as empty.
• It is not allowed to enter only a value in one of the two temperature fields.

For output of this data, a specific placeholder is available.

In certain situations, regulation-independent hazard notes are needed on transport documents. You can maintain hazards notes using phrases.

This is an extensible phrase set, so you can add missing phrases in the "Manage Phrase-Enabled Fields" app.

In certain situations, the dangerous goods description needs to be supplemented by one or more statements. Those statements are regulation specific.

You can maintain the notes using phrases.

This is an extensible phrase set, so you can add missing phrases in the "Manage Phrase-Enabled Fields" app.

Learn how to adapt the basic classification for a packaged product.

If needed, you can adapt the basic classification using "Adapt Basic Classification" action.

For example if the unpackaged product is a "No Dangerous Goods", but the packaged product is becoming a "Dangerous Goods" because of the selected package (for example aerosols).

Another example is related to CFR 49: based on the package size, the deviating NA 1993 may be applicable.

You are redirected to the dialogue of the basic classification. Here, you can edit the classification and apply this deviation to the packaged product.

You can change any field and then continue with "Apply".

In this example, the packaged product is an aerosol dispenser, so classification must be adapted.

An adapted basic classification is indicated by this message strip on the "Classification Details" screen. You can also see the adapted dangerous goods basic description.

With the "Use Original Basic Classification" action, you could revert.

With the "Edit" action, you could change the adapted basic classification.

An adapted basic classification is also indicated by a message strip on the Overview screen.

In this example, you now need to proceed for the other regulations.

Outline Special Provisions / Exemptions, applied to packaged products.

The following Special Provisions / Exemptions are supported:

As a description the following texts are printed, e.g.

• Transport according to special provision 375 (UNRTDG)

• Transport according to special provision 375 (ADR)

• Transport according to special provision A197 (IATA)

• Transport according to chapter 2.10.2.7 (IMDG-Code)

• Transport according to section §171.4 (c) (1) (2) (CFR 49)

• Transport according to chapter 2.43, 2.45, 2.7 (TDG)

• Transport according to special provision 375 (NOM)

• …

As a description the following texts are printed, e.g.

• Not dangerous goods in sealed packages containing less than 10 g of an environmentally hazardous substance due to special provision 335 (UNRTDG)
• Not dangerous goods in sealed packages containing less than 10 g of an environmentally hazardous substance due to special provision 335 (ADR)
• Not dangerous goods in sealed packages containing less than 10 g of an environmentally hazardous substance due to special provision 335 (IATA)
• Not dangerous goods in sealed packages containing less than 10 g of an environmentally hazardous substance due to special provision 335 (IMDG-Code)
• …

As a description the following texts are printed, e.g.

• Transport according to special provision 188 (UNRTDG)
• Transport according to special provision 188 (ADR)
• Lithium Ion Batteries in compliance with section II of PI 966 / 967 / 969 / 970 (IATA-DGR)
• Transport according to special provision 188 (IMDG)
• Transport according to section 173.185 (c) (CFR 49)
• Transport according to special provision 34 (TDG)
• …

You can apply a special provision or a exemption and the system is automatically assigning the correct description for documents.

Special provisions and exemptions are specified in the compliance requirement ("Output Details → Selection Rules for Description Templates").

Get to know the concept of placeholders for generation of dangerous goods documents.

Intelligent placeholders are used to build the dangerous goods descriptions for documents.

In the following slides, you find the description of a few examples.

These placeholders remove the reportable quantity information when the quantity is below the threshold.

The placeholder for road/rail removes in addition the marine pollutant information if it is a non-bulk package (quantity of dangerous goods package <= 450 L/ 450 KG).

This placeholder removes the marine pollutant information from the dangerous good basic description for Road and Rail.

This placeholder prints the text "(flashpoint: …) and includes the flashpoint "Closed Cup", if available, otherwise it uses the flashpoint "Open Cup".

As a general rule, the flashpoint is only printed if <= 60°C and the main/subsidiary risks are NOT 5.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.

Analyze your unpackaged products based on different criteria, for example, dangerous goods, no dangerous goods, class, packing group, UN number, and regulation.

Create new versions if a reclassification is required for an unpackaged product.

Set versions to historic.

Navigate to the Classification Details" screen and the "Classification Overview" screen.

Analyze your packaged products based on different criteria, for example, dangerous goods, no dangerous goods, class, packing group, UN number, and regulation.

Create new versions if a reclassification is required for a packaged product.

Set versions to historic.

Navigate to the Classification Details" screen and the "Classification Overview" screen.

As an example, you want to see all products which are classified UN 1993, packing group I for ADR.

You change the filter area from graphical filters to compact filters.

Now you can add additional filter criteria using the action "Adapt Filters".

The list area shows all products according to the filter criteria and you can directly navigate to the "Classification Details" screen.

From the "Classification Details" screen you can even navigate to the Overview screen.

Navigation from the list area to the "Classification Details" screen.

As an example, you want to see all dangerous goods assessments, which represent the classifications, for a product you need to reclassify.

You change the filter area from graphical filters to compact filters.

Now you can add additional filter criteria using the action "Adapt Filters".

You can select the affected classifications in list area selected.

With the "Create New Versions" action, new versions are created for reclassification. This product is now again included in the worklist of the "My Unpackaged Dangerous Goods"app.

In this example, you search for a dangerous goods compliance requirement for which you want to set the text-based classifications to historic, because you now have the content-based regulation available.

You select relevant entries in list area. With the action "Set to Historic", the dangerous goods assessments are set to status "Historic".

The filter area changed from graphical filters to compact Filters. You would like to see the dangerous goods descriptions for documents for a specific product.

As an example, you want to see all products which have the enclosure variant "Limited Quantity" assigned.

You change the filter area from graphical filters to compact filters.

Now you can add additional filter criteria using the action "Adapt Filters".

The list area shows all products according to the filter criteria and you could directly navigate to the "Classification Details" screen.

Understand how you can check and mass release dangerous goods assessments automatically calculated from regulation updates.

Dangerous goods regulations are updated on a regular basis.

You find new versions of your activated compliance requirements in the Activate Compliance Requirements – Dangerous Goods app awaiting activation.

Upon activation, the system automatically creates a dangerous goods assessment on the new version with status In Process for each product – unpackaged and packaged – where there was a released assessment for the predecessor version.

In the Manage Regulation Updates – Unpackaged Products app, you get an overview on dangerous goods assessments for the just activated new version along with the existing assessments for the predecessor version.

You can apply filters, slice and dice by regulation or by product and compare the automatically calculated new dangerous goods descriptions with assessments on previous versions.

Finally, you can mass release assessments identified as being ready for release.

With the release of dangerous goods assessments on the new version for unpackaged products, the system automatically creates dangerous goods assessment on the new version with status In Process for each related packaged product.

In the Manage Regulation Updates – Packaged Products app, you can review calculated assessments for the packaged product on the new version.

Apply, for example, the enclosure variant as filter and mass release assessments identified as being ready for release.

In this example you set the criteria to review products being classified No Dangerous Goods.

In the selected drill-down Product/Regulation, you can review classifications per product. By expanding the regulation nodes, you can review available assessments

After review, you can select individual assessments, products, or all products and release even multiple assessments by using the action Release.

In this example you set the criteria to review products being classified Dangerous Goods, UN 1993 packing group III for regulation IMDG-Code.

You can view the details for available versions for each unpackaged product by expanding the product node.

After review, you can select individual assessments, products or all products to release assessments by using the action Release.

Next, you review packaged products being affected by regulation updates.

In this example, only assessments without released successors are selected and the drill-down is from the product to regulations.

You can view the details for available versions for each packaged product by expanding the regulation node.

After review, you can select individual assessments, products or all products to release assessments by using the action Release.

Outline the Work View of an unpackaged product.

The Classify Unpackaged Dangerous Goods app provides a navigation to the "Work View" via the action "Related Apps".

With the work view, you have a convenient way to navigate to properties, which provide useful detail information for the classification of the unpackaged product, such as:

• Physical-Chemical Properties: state of matter, density, …
• Safety-Related Properties: Flash Point, …

"View Basic Data" navigates you to the "Unpackaged Product – Basic Compliance Data" app.

You use the back arrow to navigate back to the Classify Unpackaged Dangerous Goods app.

Understand the versioning of dangerous goods classifications.

Version History provides a chronological overview of changes of the dangerous goods classification for a selected compliance requirement.

The version history is accessible via the "Classification Details" screens.