DG - DEFINITION OF TERMS

Dangerous goods transport documents

A document specified by the ICAO technical instructions for the safe transportation of dangerous goods by air

Acceptance checklist

A document used to assist in carrying out a check on the external appearance of packages of dangerous goods and their associated documents to determine that all appropriate rewuirements have been met

Exception

A provision in ICAO ANNEX 18 on this part which excludes specific item of dangerous goods from the requirements normally applicable to that item

Handling agent

An agency which performs on behalf of the operator some or all of the latter's function

Passenger aircraft

An aircraft that carries any person other than a crew member

Freight container

An article of transport equipment for radioactive materials, designed to facilitate the transport of such materials

Overpack

An enclosure used by a single shipper to contain one or more packages and to form one handling unit for convenience of handling and stowage

Unit load device

Any type of aircraft container, aircraft pallet with a net, or aircraft pallet with a net over an igloo

Dangerous goods

Articles or substances which are capable of posing a risk to a health, safety, property or the environment

Exemption

Authorization issued by an appropriate national authority providing relief from the provisions of ICAO annex 18

Incompatible

Describing dangerous goods which, if mixed, would be liable to cause a dangerous evolution of heat or gas or produce a corrosive substance

UN number

Four digit assigned by the UN committee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods to identify a substance or a particular group of substances

Consignment

One or more packages of dangerous goods accepted by an operator from one shipper at the time and at one address receipted for in one lot and moving to one consignee at one destination address

Packaging

Receptacles and any other components or materials necessary for the receptacle to perform its containment function and to ensure compliance with the packing requirements

Package

The complete product of the packing operation consisting of the packaging and its contents

Technical instructions

The latest effective edition of the technical instructions for the safe transport of dangerous goods

Proper shipping name

The name used to describe a particular article or substance in all shipping documents and notifications

State of origin

The state in which dangerous goods were first loaded on an aircraft