The purpose of this Code is to provide guidance on the design and use of a suitable segregation barrier for the transportation of mixed loads of detonators and other high explosives in accordance with the Australian Code for the Transport of Explosives by Road and Rail (AEC).
Such mixed loads of explosives have been transported safely within Australia for over 25 years and is permitted by the AEC (Section 7.3.2(5)) provided the explosives are segregated by:
- an effective means of segregation demonstrated to prevent sympathetic detonation of the incompatible explosives; or
- other means specifically approved by a Competent Authority (i.e. explosives regulatory authority having duties and powers for the transport of explosives by road and/or rail) for that purpose.