SN/T 0370.1-2009Rules for the inspection of packaging for export dangerous goods - Part 1: General specifications (English PDF)

3.15 Over pack

In order to be convenient for loading, unloading and storage during transportation, one or

more packages are packed together to form a packing of a single unit.

3.16 Salvage packaging

It is a kind of special packaging-container used for recycling or handling dangerous goods

package with damage, defect, and leakage or not in compliance with provisions, or

overflowed or leaked dangerous goods.

3.17 Closure

It is a kind of device used for sealing the opening of receptacle.

3.18 Sift proof packaging

It is a kind of packaging-container to prevent dry substances from outward leakage,

including fine solids caused in transportation.

3.19 Securely closed

It is a kind of sealing which can prevent dry substances from leaking in normal handling. It

is the minimum requirement to any sealing.

3.20 Water-tight

It is also called effective sealing, which refers to liquid-tight sealing.

3.21 Hermetically sealed

It refers to steam-tight sealing.

3.22 UN number

It refers to 4 Arabic numbers worked out by Committee of Experts on the Transport of

Dangerous Goods in the United Nations, so as to identify a substance or a kind of

particular substance.

3.23 Recycled plastics

It refers to the plastic materials that are recycled from used industrial containers and

b) Division 2.2.non-flammable and non-toxic gases;

c) Division 2.3.toxic gases.

4.1.4 Class 3.flammable liquid

4.1.5 Class 4.flammable solid. substances prone to spontaneous combustion;

substances emitting flammable gases when encountering water;

a) Division 4.1.flammable solid, self-reactive substances and solid insensitive

explosives;

b) Division 4.2.substances prone to spontaneous combustion;

c) Division 4.3.substances emitting flammable gases when encountering water.

4.1.6 Class 5.oxidizing substances and organic peroxides

a) Division 5.1.oxidizing substances;

b) Division 5.2.organic peroxides.

4.1.7 Class 6.toxic and infectious substances

a) Division 6.1.toxic substances;

b) Division 6.2.infectious substances.

4.1.8 Class 7.infectious substances

4.1.9 Class 8.corrosive substances

4.1.10 Class 9.Miscellaneous dangerous substances and articles

4.2 Package class of dangerous goods

It refers to various kinds of other goods, except for self-reactive substances in Division 5.2

of Class 1, Class 2, Class 7, Class 5, Division 6.2 of Class 6, and Division 4.1 of Class 4.

According to their dangerous degrees, it is divided into three package classes.

a) Class I package - substances showing high danger;

b) Class II package - substances showing medium danger;

c) Class III package - substances showing mild danger.

5.1 Coding of container type

5.1.1 The coding includes.

a) An Arabic number, indicating container type, such as drum, jerrican etc.

b) A capital Latin alphabet, indicating properties of materials, such as steel, wood etc.

c) An Arabic number, indicating the category of container within its type.

5.1.2 If it is a kind of composite packaging, then two capital Latin alphabets are written in

the 2nd position of the code successively. The 1st letter refers to material of inner

receptacle, and the 2nd letter refers to material of outer packaging-container.

5.1.3 If it is a kind of combination packaging, then only code of outer packaging-container

is used.

5.1.4 At the end of packaging-container code, the letter "T", "V" or "W" can be added. The

letter "T" indicates compliance with the salvage packaging-container required in the

"Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods - Model Regulations"

(hereafter referred to as Model Regulations); the letter "V" indicates compliance with the

special packaging-container required in the Model Regulations; the letter "W" indicates

that although packaging-container type and coding type are the same, its manufacturing

specification is different from the specification in the Annex A, however, they are deemed

as equivalent according to the Model Regulations.

5.1.5 For packaging-container for air shipping, the capital Latin alphabets "IP" refer to

inner package; following that, the Arabic number indicates type of the inner package.

5.1.6 The following numbers refer to packaging-container types.