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excerpted from PART VII of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HANDLING OR OFFERING
FOR TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS

Handling

General

7.35 No person shall, in the course of transporting dangerous goods, load, unload or store the dangerous goods in a manner that could cause a discharge, emission or escape of the dangerous goods from the means of containment that could constitute a danger to health, life, property or the environment.

7.36 Where instructions for the safe handling or storage of dangerous goods in the course of transportation are indicated on a shipping document in accordance with paragraph 4.8(1)(k), no person shall handle or offer for transport the dangerous goods unless those instructions are complied with.

Loading of Transport Units

7.37 No person shall load dangerous goods into or onto a transport unit unless the transport unit is, under normal conditions of handling and transportation, capable of safely retaining the dangerous goods loaded into or onto it and is free of any projections capable of damaging any package or small container containing the dangerous goods.

7.38 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall load dangerous goods contained in any means of containment into or onto a transport unit unless the person ensures that the means of containment and any other goods loaded into or onto the transport unit are loaded or secured so as to prevent damage to the means of containment, the other goods or the transport unit under normal conditions of transportation.

(2) Where a person loads dangerous goods contained in any means of containment into or onto a transport unit for transport by rail in accordance with methods approved by the AAR, the loading of the dangerous goods shall be deemed to have been done in accordance with the requirements of subsection (1).

(3) No person shall load a transport unit into or onto a road vehicle or railway vehicle unless the person ensures that the transport unit is secured so as to prevent, under normal conditions of transportation, damage to the transport unit, road vehicle or railway vehicle.

7.39 No person shall load dangerous goods into or onto a transport unit together with foodstuffs unless the dangerous goods are separated from the foodstuffs in a manner that would prevent the contamination of the foodstuffs in the event of a discharge, emission or escape of the dangerous goods.

7.39.1 Where a tank car tank, its interior heating system or one of its valves is overdue for the retesting required in National Standard of Canada CAN/CGSB-43.147-97, Construction and Maintenance of Tank Car Tanks and Selection and Use of Tank Car Tanks, Portable Tanks and Rail Cars for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Rail, dated August 1997, no person shall load dangerous goods in the tank car tank until retesting is done in accordance with that Standard.

7.40 Where more than 2 000 kg of any one class of consumer commodities are to be transported in or on a transport unit and the transport unit is to be transported by ship, no other dangerous goods shall be stowed under or over the consumer commodities or in or over any part of the space within 1 m of the consumer commodities.