Ensuring safe and compliant battery logistics: Bluewater Battery Logistics partners with HazMat Safety Consulting

Blog, HazMat Safety Consulting

As the demand for lithium battery recycling, resale, and repurposing grows, navigating the evolving regulatory landscape has become increasingly complex. In response, Bluewater Battery Logistics has announced an official partnership with HazMat Safety Consulting, strengthening their commitment to safe and DOT-compliant battery management solutions across the United States. This collaboration, built on two years of…

What happens when close trading partners and bosom buddies update their GHS classifications but have misaligned transition periods?

Around the Globe, Blog, HazMat Safety Consulting

The U.S. and Canada enjoy the world’s most comprehensive trading relationship, which supports millions of jobs in each country. We are each other’s largest trade partners with nearly $3.6 billion (U.S.$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services crossing the border every day in 2023. (Sept 2024) In 2013 U.S. OSHA signed a Memorandum of Understanding…

Here we go

Blog, HazMat Safety Consulting

As I enter a new phase of my career, I want to share a few perspectives that I learned from my time working with PHMSA’s Approvals and Permits Division. Firstly, the people of the Approvals and Permits Division and across PHMSA are smart, hard-working, mission-driven people that are truly dedicated to safety.  As a Federal…

FAA proposed fines for Hazardous Material violations

Blog, HazMat Safety Consulting

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed civil penalties exceeding $50,000 for alleged Hazardous Materials Violations involving persons and companies that have offered lithium batteries in checked baggage when in fact it should have been shipped as cargo.  These violations are taken very seriously with stiff penalties because of the risk posed particularly aboard passenger…

Prototype lithium batteries

Blog, HazMat Safety Consulting

Americase was recently granted a special permit (DOT-SP 20798) that authorizes the transport of low production and prototype lithium batteries aboard cargo aircraft in specially designed thermally insulated packaging manufactured and distributed by Americase.  Low production or prototype batteries are only authorized to be transported aboard cargo aircraft under an approval issued by the country…