Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

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PART ITABLE OF CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES, CLASSIFICATIONS AND HAZARD WARNING SIGNS

(1)	(2)	(3)
Characteristic properties of the substance	Classification	Hazard warning sign
*Note 1* An aerosol which is flammable in accordance with paragraph 2 of Part III of Schedule 1 to the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985 shall have the classification of a flammable gas. Other aerosols need not be classified as flammable gas or flammable liquid. *Note 2* Viscous preparations which comply with the conditions in Part III of Schedule 2 to the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985 shall not be required to be classified as a flammable liquid. *Note 3* The flash point shall be determined in accordance with one of the methods described in Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985. *Note 4* For the purposes of Schedule 3, liquids having a flash point not exceeding 60°C shall be treated as being in Class 3. *Note 5* The hazard warning sign to be employed should be the appropriate one required by the regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials published by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
A substance which— (a) has a critical temperature below 50°C or which at 50°C has a vapour pressure of more than 3 bar absolute; and (b) is conveyed at a pressure of more than 500 millibar above atmospheric pressure or in liquefied form; other than a toxic gas or a flammable gas.	Class 2 (Non-flammable compressed gas)
A substance which has a critical temperature below 50°C or which at 50°C has a vapour pressure of more than 3 bar absolute and which is toxic.	Class 2 (Toxic gas)
A substance which has a critical temperature below 50°C or which at 50°C has a vapour pressure of more than 3 bar absolute and is flammable. (See Note 1).	Class 2 (Flammable gas)
A liquid with a flash point of 55°C or below except a liquid which— (a) has a flash point equal to or more than 2 1°C and less than or equal to 55°C and (b) when tested at 55°C i the manner described in Schedule 2 to the Highly Flammable Liquids and Liquefied Petroleum Gases Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) doe not support combustion. (See Notes 2 to 4).	Class 3 (Flammable liquid)
A solid which is readily combustible under condition encountered in a harbour or harbour area or which may cause or contribute to fire through friction.	Class 4.1 (Flammable solid)
A substance which is liable to spontaneous heating under conditions encountered in a harbour or harbour area or to heating in contact with air being then liable to catch fire	Class 4.2 (Spontaneously combustible substance)
A substance which in contact with water is liable to become spontaneously combustible or to give off a flammable gas.	Class 4.3 (Substance which in contact with water emits flammable gas)
A substance other than an organic peroxide, which, although not itself necessarily combustible, may by yielding oxygen or by a similar process cause or contribute to the combustion of other material.	Class 5.1 (Oxidizing substance)
A substance which is— (a) an organic peroxide; and (b) an unstable substance which may undergo exothermic self-accelerating decomposition.	Class 5.2 Organic peroxide)
A substance known to be so toxic to man as to afford a hazard to health under conditions encountered in a harbour or harbour area or which, in the absence of adequate data on human toxicity, is presumed to be toxic to man.	Class 6.1 (Toxic substance)
A substance known to be toxic to man or, in the absence of adequate data on human toxicity, is presumed to be toxic to man but which is unlikely to afford a serious acute hazard to health under conditions encountered in a harbour or harbour area.	Class 6.1 (Harmful substance)
A substance which contains disease-producing microorganisms.	Class 6.2 (Infectious substance)
A substance of specific activity of more than 70 Becquerels per gram (0.002 microcuries per gram) (See Note 5).	Class 7 (Radioactive substance)
A substance which by chemical action will— (a) cause severe damage when in contact with living tissue, or (b) materially damage other freight or equipment if leakage occurs.	Class 8 Corrosive substance)
Two or more dangerous substances having different classifications.	Multi-load	(Applicable only to hazard warning panels).
An explosive substance, that is to say— (a) a solid or liquid substance, or (b) a mixture of solid or liquid substances or both, which is capable by chemical reaction in itself of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as could cause damage to surroundings, including one or more such substances contained in an article and which has a predominant hazard appropriate to another Class but which nevertheless presents a significant hazard from explosion.	According to the predominant hazard	(The hazard warning sign shown above should appear on packages in addition to the hazard warning sign of the main classification).