The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996

PART VI: LOADING AND UNLOADING

Prohibition of mixed loading and segregation of radioactive material

28.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any package in a freight container or wagon where the freight container or wagon concerned is being used for the carriage of—

(a)explosives which are subject to the 1983 Regulations other than those explosives within a Compatibility Group whose Compatibility Group Letter is S; or

(b)dangerous goods which are classified in accordance with regulation 5 of the CDGCPL Regulations and which are required by those Regulations to be labelled with a “liable to explosion” subsidiary hazard sign.

(2) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any radioactive material in any freight container or wagon where the freight container or wagon concerned is being used for the carriage of undeveloped photographic film unless the radioactive material is segregated from the film so as to ensure that the radiation exposure of the film due to the carriage of the radioactive material is limited to 0·1 mSv per consignment of film.

(3) No train operator shall cause or permit to be carried any consignment of radioactive material unless that consignment is adequately segregated from any consignment of dangerous goods other than radioactive material carried with it in such a way as to prevent the creation of a significantly greater risk than each of the consignments is liable to create separately.

Loading, stowage and unloading of radioactive material

29.—(1) The operator of a freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon which is being used for the carriage of radioactive material and any other person engaged in such carriage shall take such steps as it is reasonable for them respectively to take to ensure that nothing in the manner in which radioactive material is loaded, stowed or unloaded from the freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerned is liable to create a significant risk or significantly increase any existing risk to the health or safety of any person.

(2)  Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), no person shall cause or permit to be carried any package or overpack in any freight container or wagon unless any requirements specified in Schedule 12 have been complied with.