As March unfolds, bringing the freshness of spring and new beginnings, ICC is here to light your way with the latest, vital updates in regulatory compliance, ensuring your path forward is both clear and compliant.
🔍 This Month's Spotlights:
Eco-Driven Solutions:"Exemptions for Shipping Battery Powered Vehicles" clarifies shipping rules for battery-powered transport, highlighting key exemptions for road, rail, and sea, ensuring legal and safe delivery.
Label Logistics:"Can I Combine my USA, Canada, and European Labels Into One?" examines the feasibility of a unified label across multiple jurisdictions, confronting the variances in OSHA, WHMIS, and EU CLP regulations. It offers a nuanced look at the complexities of harmonizing precautionary statements for global compliance.
Compliance Costs:"PHMSA Increasing Penalties for 2024" alerts to PHMSA's final rule raising civil penalty amounts for dangerous goods shipping violations, aligned with inflation adjustments. A crucial reminder of the importance of compliance and training to avoid financial repercussions.
Packaging Perishability:"Does Plastic Single Packaging Expire?" examines the lifespan of UN rated plastic single packaging for transporting dangerous goods, highlighting the 5-year use limit across various regulations, with notable exceptions. Essential for ensuring compliance in global shipping.
2024 Hazmat Prep Guide: Discover key 2023 regulatory changes with our "Top 12 Impactful HazMat Developments" resource. From UN model updates to U.S. lithium battery rules and Canada's GHS Revision 7, this concise guide is essential for navigating the 2024 compliance landscape.
Wishing you a March marked by blossoming opportunities and seamless compliance pathways. Here's to springing forward into the season with insight, innovation, and unwavering adherence to regulations!
Pat Williams
ICC Compliance Center
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