General Guidelines

Documents

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   Checklists for avoiding leaks when filling or discharging rail tank-wagons

   03 January 2012

   

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   Guidance on Good Practices for Ship Vetting

   07 June 2011

   Ship vetting is a risk assessment carried out by charterers and terminal operators to avoid making use of deficient ships for sea or inland waterway transport. This guidance includes information on existing industry ship inspection schemes and aspects to consider when setting up a company ship vetting system.

   

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   Guidelines for measuring and managing CO2 emissions from transport operations (Cefic-ECTA)

   30 March 2011

   These new Cefic/ECTA guidelines have been developed with a twofold objective:
   
   1. Offer a common, simple, but sufficiently precise method for the calculation of CO2 emissions from freight transport operations, allowing chemical and transport companies to determine their transport carbon footprint
   
   2. Provide a generic overview of opportunities and approaches for companies to reduce their CO2 emissions in intra-European transport.
   
   Companies will need to develop decarbonisation strategies for their logistics operations, in order to contribute to the ambitious EU GHG emission reduction targets. In order to allow chemical companies and transport companies to identify opportunities for improving the performance of their freight transport operations, an understanding of their current transport carbon footprint is needed.

   

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   Guidelines for Transport Equipment used for Chemical Packed Cargo

   25 January 2011

   

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   Guidelines for the security of the transport of dangerous goods by road

   02 August 2010

   These guidelines provide a list of practical options on how a company can meet the requirements of the new Chapter 1.10 on Security Provisions. They are the result of a cooperation between 12 industry associations, which represent a large part of manufacturing, transport, distribution and forwarding industries, involved in the transport of dangerous goods.
   
   The current guidelines replace a previous version (dating from 2005) and are in line with the Security Provisions of ADR 2011.

   

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   Behaviour Based Safety Safe Loading & Unloading

   21 June 2010

   Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) is a management programme that aims at increasing safety of operations by positively influencing the behaviour of all persons involved, through a process of observation, coaching and communication. The overall objective is to improve safety performance of both the chemical industry and the transport industry. This BBS guideline has been developed for the safe driving of road freight vehicles.

   

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   How to reduce time spent by drivers on site and improve their treatment - Recommendations for loading and unloading sites

   01 December 2009

   

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   Guidance on risks and precautions to be considered for bulk liquid loading and unloading operations in road transport

   01 December 2009

   

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   Equipment for the transport of dry bulk cargo, to be discharged by tipping

   01 April 2009

   

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    ECTA-Cefic Guidelines for standarized coding of transport events

    08 February 2009

    This document replaces the ECTA-Cefic Guideline of 2002 and proposes the application of standard coding and data structure for reporting of transport events in chemical transports.

    

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