Safety Services
Hazardous Materials Shipping
Background:
To promote safe and secure transportation of hazardous and infectious materials and to ensure minimal threats to life, property, or the environment due to hazmat incidents, the Department of Safety Services is offering and coordinating training classes for any TTUHSC hazmat employee. A hazmat employee is any employee who handles, offers for transport, transports, or causes hazardous materials to be transported.
Due to the clinical nature of the majority of regulated shipments from TTUHSC, two training programs will be maintained; one for all classes of hazardous materials (“hazmat”) and another with a focus on Class 6.2 Infectious Substances. Each program requires initial training, followed by recurrent refresher training every two years.
Safety Services provides both initial and recurrent classroom training for general hazmat shipments, which will provide the trainee with certification to ship all classes of hazardous materials in accordance with 49 CFR.
At this time, initial training for shipment of Class 6.2 infectious substances and dry ice must be purchased by commercially available sources. Contact Safety Services for purchasing information. Copies of training certificates shall be forwarded to Safety Services as proof of initial training, and for maintenance of records. Safety Services provides Class 6.2 refresher training in a classroom setting.
Shipping Procedures:
All hazmat shippers must be trained in order to package, ship, sign-off, or offer package for transportation. Copies of training certificates and copies of any shipping declaration forms must be forwarded to Safety Services.
Prior to sending out shipment, all packages requiring a hazmat shipping declaration form require a declaration form review by Safety Services. Copies of declaration forms may be faxed to Safety at 806-743-1299.
Remember that nothing may be shipped to countries under sanctions by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition, international shipments may be subject to export controls regulations and licensure if the item appears on the Controlled Commodities List (CCL), or the United States Munitions List (USML). See “Resources” section below for web links. Select Agents and toxins as defined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services may not be shipped to any foreign country, under any circumstances.
Policy:
TTUHSC policy on shipping hazardous materials: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/hsc/op/op75/op7513.pdf
Resources:
- Initial training in Class 6.2 may be purchased from Saf-T-Pak at the following website: http://www.saftpak.com/stpcdrom.asp
- Fed Ex Shipping Declaration forms may be filled out on-line at the following website: http://www.fedex.com/us/services/options/dangerousgoods/declarationforms.html
- More information on shipping hazmat regulations: http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/portal/site/PHMSA
- A list of OFAC sanctioned countries: http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/index.shtml
- The CCL is listed at the following site (starting with Part 774 and the Supplements with each of the 9 Categories): http://www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html
- The USML is located at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_08/22cfr121_08.html
- The list of Select Agents and toxins is found at: http://www.cdc.gov/od/sap/docs/salist.pdf
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Safety Services, 3601 4th Street MS 9020, Lubbock, TX 79430
806.743.2597