Singapore legislation
Regulation 28
of Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) Regulations
Regulation 28
Hazard warning panels and labels
Subregulation 1
Where any toxic industrial waste is being transported in a road tanker, a freight container or a tank container or in any other vehicle, the carrier shall ensure that such appropriate hazard warning panel or label as prescribed in the code of labelling specified by the Director-General is displayed on the road tanker, freight container, tank container or on any other vehicle and such panel or label shall —
be weather resistant and indelibly marked;
be either rigid or fixed to be rigid;
be marked on or securely attached to the vehicle, freight container or tank container in a substantially vertical plane, and if the means of attachment is by a frame, that frame shall carry no other hazard warning panels; and
be kept clean and free from obstruction, except that a rear panel or label may be mounted behind a ladder of light construction which does not prevent the information on the panel or label from being easily read.
Subregulation 2
Where a multi-load is transported in a compartmented tank container or freight container or, if in a road tanker, in separate tanks or compartments of a tank, the carrier shall ensure that each tank or compartment which contains a toxic industrial waste is provided with and displays the appropriate hazard warning panel or label prescribed in the code of labelling specified by the Director-General and the requirements of paragraph (1) shall apply to such panel or label.
Subregulation 3
The carrier shall ensure that such hazard warning panel or label is —
displayed on the road tanker, freight container, tank container or other vehicle at all times when any toxic industrial waste is being transported; and
removed when the road tanker, freight container, tank container or other vehicle is not used for transporting any toxic industrial waste.