Dangerous goods emergency responses – new guide soon to be published

The Dangerous Goods – Initial Emergency Response Guide SAA/SNZ HB 76:2010 is about to be jointly published by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand. This edition is a revision of SAA HB 76:2004 and SNZ HB 76:2008 to create a new joint Australia and New Zealand handbook.

The purpose of SAA/SNZ HB 76:2010 is to provide immediate general information and advice to persons handling dangerous goods emergencies. While written principally for trained emergency professionals, the handbook also contains advice, which anyone first on the scene of an incident should be able to follow.

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AS/NZS 1337 Personal eye-protection

AS/NZS 1337.0(Int):2010 Eye and face protectors – Vocabulary

Provides terms and definitions for eye and face protectors. Terms specifically used in other parts of AS/NZS 1337.1 that are not defined in this Interim Standard continue to be defined in the appropriate part of AS/NZS 1337.1.
Interim Standard – Expires 26 May 2012

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SAA/SNZ HB 76 Dangerous goods – Initial emergency response guide

Committee: HB76
Manager: John Kelly
Estimated publication date: June 2010
Comments: HB 76:1997 was developed as a joint handbook but subsequent editions, 2004 in Australia and 2003 and 2008 in New Zealand, have been Australian and New Zealand only handbooks. The handbook is now being revised as a joint document.

See the article in this issue, Dangerous goods emergency responses – new guide soon to be published.