NORMS in the oil and gas industry are regulated but poorly police or enforced by agencies and industry because a lot places dont know the rules and what is required, so lets clear this mystery up once and for all and haul and store them properly before your next government inspection or worker Cancer Risk
1. Norms in the Oil
Industry and Class
7 TDG
Risks and
Requirement
So have you meet the requirements of
this class 7 TDG risks
2. It all starts with training
NORM training courses include
• NORM Awareness
• - Required for any Company employee that works at a
Company site and/or facility where NORM is present.
• NORM Worker Protection Procedures
• - Required for any Company employee who will be
performing routine maintenance work on NORM
labeled (i.e. contaminated with NORM above the
exemption limits) equipment/tubulars and facilities.
• NORM Surveyor I,
• - Required for any Company employee who will
conduct equipment/tubular surveys for NORM
contamination at a Company site and/or facility. This
training does NOT include surveying for loose surface
contamination, surveying soils, NORM sampling, or
shipping of NORM samples for laboratory analysis.
• NORM Surveying, Sampling, and Sample Shipping, and
Note: Also referred to as NORM Surveyor II.
• − Required for any Company employee who will
survey for NORM contamination at a Company site
and/or facility, perform NORM sampling, and/or
conduct shipping of NORM samples for laboratory
analysis.
• NORM Radiation Safety Officer.
• − Required for any Company employee who will be
performing the duties of NORM Radiation Safety
Officer.
•
13. NORMS are Class 7 TDG
Regulated
Which means you must be
trained to ship or handles
these materials
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14. The key in DANGEROUS
GOODS
• Once classified by
the shipper as a
dangerous good
and NORMS must
be measure to be
a dangerous good
by the reading on
radiation meter
YOU NOW HAVE A
CLASS 7
CHEMICAL AS
DEFINED UNDER
THE LEGISLATION!
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16. Vehicle Placards
(placed on all four sides of the
vehicle)
Only required for Yellow III package shipments but
it is the responsibility of the shipper
(sender/consignor) to provide four of them to the
transport carrier each time.
Some carriers have a supply so may not request
them. You should have a supply just in case if
shipping Yellow III packages.
Packaging
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