South Australian Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - SCHEDULE 11

Schedule 11—Placard and manifest quantities

Regulations 347— 350, 361, 390 and 391

1—Determination of classification of flammable liquids

For the purposes of this table, if a flammable liquid category 4 is used, handled or stored in the same spill compound as one or more flammable liquids of categories 1, 2 or 3, the total quantity of flammable liquids categories 1, 2 or 3 must be determined as if the flammable liquid category 4 had the same classification as the flammable liquid in the spill compound with the lowest flash point.

Table 11.1

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Item	Description of hazardous chemical		Placard quantity	Manifest quantity
1	Flammable gases	Category 1A, category 1B or any combination of categories 1A and 1B	200L	5 000L
2	Gases under pressure	With acute toxicity, categories 1, 2, 3 or 4	50L	500L
3		With skin corrosion categories 1A, 1B or 1C	50L	500L
4		Not specified elsewhere in this Table	1 000L	10 000L
5	Flammable liquids	Category 1	50L	500L
6		Category 2	250L	2 500L
7		Category 3	1 000L	10 000L
8		Any combination of chemicals from Items 5 to 7 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000L	10 000L
9		Category 4	10 000L	100 000L
10	Self-reactive substances	Type A	5kg or 5L	50kg or 50L
11		Type B	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
12		Type C to F	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
13	Flammable solids	Category 1	250kg	2 500kg
14		Category 2	1 000kg	10 000kg
15		Any combination of chemicals from Items 11 to 14 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
16	Pyrophoric liquids and pyrophoric solids	Category 1	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
17	Self-heating substances and mixtures	Category 1	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
18		Category 2	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
19		Any combination of chemicals from Items 16 to 18 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
20	Substances which in contact with water emit flammable gas	Category 1	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
21		Category 2	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
22		Category 3	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
23		Any combination of chemicals from Items 20 to 22 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
24	Oxidising liquids and oxidising solids	Category 1	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
25		Category 2	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
26		Category 3	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
27		Any combination of chemicals from Items 24 to 26 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
28	Organic peroxides	Type A	5kg or 5L	50kg or 50L
29		Type B	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
30		Type C to F	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
31		Any combination of chemicals from Items 29 and 30 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
32	Acute toxicity	Category 1	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
33		Category 2	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
34		Category 3	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
35		Any combination of chemicals from Items 32 to 34 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
36	Skin corrosion	Category 1A	50kg or 50L	500kg or 500L
37		Category 1B	250kg or 250L	2 500kg or 2 500L
38		Category 1C	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
39	Corrosive to metals	Category 1	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
40		Any combination of chemicals from Items 36 to 39 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	1 000kg or 1 000L	10 000kg or 10 000L
41	Unstable explosives		5kg or 5L	50kg or 50L
42	Unstable chemicals	Any combination of chemicals from Items 10, 28 and 41 where none of the items exceeds the quantities in columns 4 or 5 on their own	5kg or 5L	50kg or 50L
43	Aerosols	Category 1, category 2, category 3 or any combination of categories 1, 2 and 3	5 000L	10 000L

Note—

1         In item 2, Gases under pressure with acute toxicity, category 4 only applies up to a LC50 of 5000 ppmV. This is equivalent to dangerous goods of Division 2.3.

2         Item 43 includes flammable aerosols.

Example—

For placarding and manifest purposes, a spill compound containing 1 000L of flammable liquid category 1 and 1 000L of flammable liquid category 4 is considered to contain 2 000L of flammable liquid category 1.