Does anyone know the rules around transporting chemicals ? ADR regs are over 1000 pages long I am trying to look for exemptions the reason being.

We are one site with two buildings but the buildings are separated by a public highway 150M maximum distance to travel We have a stock of 1M3 IBC's on site that contain 50% Sodium hydroxide, and others that contain 5% Peroxyacetic acid. We have ran out of chemical at one building and need to transport the IBC from building A to building B 150M on a public road. The idea was to load our transits van and to transport the IBC to the other site, but I'm almost sure that this is not legal so I've stopped the job. There seems to be some exemptions within the regs but they seem open to interpretation. Wondering whether anyone knows the rules for transporting this volume of chemicals in a van with an untrained driver and no signage even though its only 150M travel distance


I'm pretty sure I know the answer but would like to put it out there anyway

Mersey.

Do you know the 'packing group' of the goods?

Lets take the Sodium- If its PG III then you will be able to carry 1000 litres without the driver having to do the driver ADR. There will be parts of ADR that you will have to comply with. Labelling, documentation and some form of driver training amongst others.

If its PG II then you can only carry 333 litres.

A bit more info please

Andy

Data sheet- should be section 14

Thanks for the guidelines much appreciated I take it from this we are not allowed to transport it in the transit van

thanks a mil saved me lots of reading greatly appreciated

150 Metres across a public road - not being delivered to a customer but transferred between two locations within the same business - are we really in to the transport of Dangerous Goods including raising DG Notes for trans-shipment within a business?

Would concur with exceptional events - consider the risks, ensure it is as secure as the IBC can be (capped/sealed valve outlet, closed filling/venting port etc.) spill kit / drain covers available in case it tips (judging from the post these would be presumed to be available) and move it on an FLT to save any debate about segregation between the load and the vehicle driver.

Yes possible debates over road tax and insurance for the FLT - but with appropriate identifiable Banks Men not considerably different to off loading to a warehouse from the public highway.

Or if still nervous decant the IBC's to 205 Ltr steel drums and move these in the Transit Van one at a time to be under the thresholds..

If you decide to decant (which is a good idea, although the act of decanting has its own risks), try to choose containers that are made from the same material as your IBC (which I am guessing will be high density polythene). Sodium hydroxide is incompatible with zinc and aluminium, and acids are usually incompatible with most metals.