This guide has been produced to assist consignors, especially those who engage a courier or transport company, to understand their responsibilities when transporting non-placard load quantities of dangerous goods in packages by road and rail in Australia.
Western Australia is regulated under the Dangerous Goods Safety (Road and Rail Transport of Non-explosives) Regulations 2007 (the Regulations). These Regulations do not apply to explosives or radioactive and infectious substances or places and roads not open to the public.