Happy Holidays from The Compliance Center!

The ICC team would like to wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!

As 2024 comes to a close we hope you take the opportunity to relax and enjoy time with family and friends. We hope your holiday season is filled with wonderful memories.

We would like to thank our customers, partners, and vendors for their continued business and partnership to safety and compliance. We look forward to serving you in the new year and for many years to come.

A Review of Regulatory Topics in 2024

To end 2024 on a high note, we wanted to showcase the most popular Help Center articles that you were interested in this year. We have compiled a list of the Top 5 Articles published in 2024 as well as the Overall Top 5 Articles. We encourage you to take advantage of these compiled lists and revisit key information.

Top 5 Articles Published in 2024

1. UN Packaging Codes
   UN packaging codes designate specific container types, like 4G for fibreboard boxes and 3H1 for plastic jerricans. This article explains where to find these codes in key regulations and highlights less common types, such as 5M1 paper bags and 5H4 woven plastic bags, ensuring safe and compliant dangerous goods shipping.
2. Update on the Lithium Battery Mark Telephone Number
   The lithium battery mark no longer requires a telephone number, with a full phase-out by 2027. This article explains current regulations and how shippers can prepare to comply with the updated standard.
3. Exemptions for Shipping Battery-Powered Vehicles
   This article explains exemptions across ground, maritime, and air regulations that simplify shipping battery-powered vehicles like cars, bikes, and scooters.
4. Shipping Limited Quantities by Sea
   Shipping limited quantities by sea follows the IMDG Code, requiring specific packaging, labeling, and declarations. Unlike air shipments, hazard class labels aren’t needed, but a shipper’s declaration is mandatory. This article covers essential steps for safe, compliant sea shipments.
5. OSHA’s New Aerosol Classification
   OSHA’s adoption of GHS version 7 updates aerosol classifications, adding a new hazard category and requiring manufacturers to reassess safety data sheets and labels by 2027.

Overall Top 5 Articles

1. What to Do if Your Lithium Battery Catches Fire?
   Lithium batteries are used in several devices, which means that many people need to know how to transport them safely. This article covers why lithium batteries catch fire, the warning signs to catch, and what to do if a battery catches fire on your watch.
2. Segregating Dangerous Goods under the IMDG Code
   Segregation of dangerous goods can be a complex process, with many regulations offering different requirements. One of the most complicated is the IMDG code. This article unpacks the complex system for marine shipments to help you understand how to safely and properly segregate dangerous goods.
3. Is a Placard Required?
   Placards are a complicated area of hazardous material regulation. Read this article for a breakdown of the regulations for placards to help you better understand when and how to use them.
4. What are Excepted Quantities?
   This article demystifies the concept of shipping small quantities of hazardous goods with less stringent regulations, explaining how it simplifies the process while still ensuring safety in transportation.
5. Shipping Limited Quantities by Ground vs Air, What’s the Difference?
   Shipping limited quantities is another way to use exceptions while shipping hazardous materials. Learn how to utilize this helpful exemption in our article highlighting how to ship limited quantities by ground and by air.

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All offices will resume normal operating hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025.

We wish you all a happy, safe, and compliant 2025!