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Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified meaning a collective entry to which substances, mixtures, solutions or articles may be assigned if a) they are not mentioned by name in 3.2 Dangerous Goods List AND b) they exhibit chemical, physical and/or dangerous properties corresponding to the Class, classification code, packing group and the name and ...
4.2. Ferrous metal borings or Ferrous metal shavings or Ferrous metal turnings or Ferrous metal cuttings in a form liable to self-heating. UN 2794. 8. Batteries, wet, filled with acid, electric storage. UN 2795. 8. Batteries, wet, filled with alkali, electric storage. UN 2796.
4.1. Isosorbide dinitrate mixture with not less than 60 percent lactose, mannose, starch or calcium hydrogen phosphate. UN 2908. 7. Radioactive material, excepted package—empty packaging. UN 2909. 7. Radioactive material, excepted package-articles manufactured from natural or depleted uranium or natural thorium. UN 2910.
The Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident (ERG) is used by emergency response personnel (such as firefighters, paramedics and police officers) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials.
Dangerous goods in machinery or Dangerous goods in apparatus UN 3364: 4.1: Trinitrophenol (Picric acid), wetted, with not less than 10% water by mass UN 3365: 4.1: Trinitrochlorobenzene (Picryl chloride), wetted, with not less than 10% water by mass UN 3366: 4.1: Trinitrotoluene (TNT), wetted, with not less than 10% water by mass UN 3367: 4.1
Emergency Action Code. The Emergency Action Code (EAC) is a three character code displayed on all dangerous goods classed carriers, and provides a quick assessment to first responders and emergency responders (i.e. fire fighters and police) of what actions to take should the carrier carrying such goods become involved in an incident (traffic collision, for example).
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.