Section 172.1

49 CFR Ch. I (10-1-18 Edition)
Subpart F - Placarding

172.704

172.500 Applicability of placarding requirements.
172.502 Prohibited
and
permissive
placarding.
172.503 Identification number display on
placards.
172.504 General placarding requirements.
172.505 Placarding for subsidiary hazards.
172.506 Providing and affixing placards:
Highway.
172.507 Special placarding provisions: Highway.
172.508 Placarding and affixing placarding:
Rail.
172.510 Special placarding provisions: Rail.
172.512 Freight containers and aircraft unit
load devices.
172.514 Bulk packagings.
172.516 Visibility and display of placards.
172.519 General specifications for placards.
172.521 DANGEROUS placard.
172.522 EXPLOSIVES 1.1, EXPLOSIVES 1.2
and EXPLOSIVES 1.3 placards.
172.523 EXPLOSIVES 1.4 placard.
172.524 EXPLOSIVES 1.5 placard.
172.525 EXPLOSIVES 1.6 placard.
172.526 [Reserved]
172.527 Background requirements for certain placards.
172.528 NON-FLAMMABLE GAS placard.
172.530 OXYGEN placard.
172.532 FLAMMABLE GAS placard.
172.536 [Reserved]
172.540 POISON GAS placard.
172.542 FLAMMABLE placard.
172.544 COMBUSTIBLE placard.
172.546 FLAMMABLE SOLID placard.
172.547 SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTIBLE
placard.
172.548 DANGEROUS WHEN WET placard.
172.550 OXIDIZER placard.
172.552 ORGANIC PEROXIDE placard.
172.553 [Reserved]
172.554 POISON placard.
172.555 POISON
INHALATION
HAZARD
placard.
172.556 RADIOACTIVE placard.
172.558 CORROSIVE placard.
172.560 CLASS 9 placard.

Subpart G - Emergency Response
Information
172.600 Applicability and general requirements.
172.602 Emergency response information.
172.604 Emergency response telephone number.
172.606 Carrier information contact.

Subpart H - Training
172.700 Purpose and scope.
172.701 Federal-State relationship.
172.702 Applicability and responsibility for
training and testing.

Training requirements.

Subpart I - Safety and Security Plans
172.800 Purpose and applicability.
172.802 Components of a security plan.
172.804 Relationship to other Federal requirements.
172.820 Additional planning requirements
for transportation by rail.
172.822 Limitation on actions by states,
local governments, and Indian tribes.
APPENDIX A TO PART 172 - OFFICE OF HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS
TRANSPORTATION
COLOR TOLERANCE CHARTS AND TABLES
APPENDIX B TO PART 172 - TREFOIL SYMBOL
APPENDIX C TO PART 172 - DIMENSIONAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR RECOMMENDED PLACARD
HOLDER
APPENDIX D TO PART 172 - RAIL RISK ANALYSIS FACTORS
AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 5101-5128, 44701; 49
CFR 1.81, 1.96 and 1.97.
SOURCE: Amdt. 172-29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15,
1976, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A - General
Section 172.1

Purpose and scope.

This part lists and classifies those
materials which the Department has
designated as hazardous materials for
purposes of transportation and prescribes the requirements for shipping
papers, package marking, labeling, and
transport vehicle placarding applicable
to the shipment and transportation of
those hazardous materials.
[Amdt. 172-29, 41 FR 15997, Apr. 15, 1976, as
amended by 66 FR 45379, Aug. 28, 2001]

Section 172.3

Applicability.

(a) This part applies to - 
(1) Each person who offers a hazardous material for transportation, and
(2) Each carrier by air, highway, rail,
or water who transports a hazardous
material.
(b) When a person, other than one of
those provided for in paragraph (a) of
this section, performs a packaging labeling or marking function required by
this part, that person shall perform the
function in accordance with this part.
[Amdt. 172-29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 1976, as
amended by Amdt. 172-32, 41 FR 38179, Sept.
9, 1976]

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