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Document ID (ISN)40609
CIS number 83-1729
ISSN - Serial title 0010-244X - Cahiers des Comités de prévention du bâtiment et des travaux publics
Year 1983
Convention or series no. Fiche de sécurité OPPBTP D.508
Author(s)
(Organisme professionnel de prévention du bâtiment et des travaux publics)
Title Transport of explosives
Original title Transport des explosifs [in French]
Bibliographic information Mar.-Apr. 1983, No.2, 4p. insert.
Abstract Update of the 1977 edition (CIS 77-918). The first part of the sheet concerns recommendations on the simultaneous transport of small quantities of explosives and detonators (100kg of explosives and fewer than 1000 detonators) on public thoroughfares. Points covered: French regulations and required authorisations, possible routes, vehicle marking, traffic, transport of persons, loading, posting of safety rules, transport for special jobs. The second part, which deals with explosives transport within a job site, quotes article 5 of the French decree of 15 Oct. 1962 on the use of explosives on construction sites (CIS 2629-1962, Jcuy Xrz (609)) and presents the precautions to be taken against fire and explosions. In an appendix: principal rules governing the equipment of vehicles used for explosives transport.
Descriptors (primary) explosives; transport of materials; France
Descriptors (secondary) in-plant transport; explosion prevention; data sheet; legislation; road transport
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Construction industry
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Transport of materials