Making toxic loads safer
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VEHICLES carrying toxic substances may be required to have special equipment for use in an emergency.
This is a measure to be considered by the Health and Safety Commission when proposals for new regulations are prepared, Transport Minister Dr John Gilbert announced last week.
Dr Gilbert, answering a series of Commons questions about the transportation of road materials admitted that the current controls under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 were not entirely satisfactory.
He noted that the Health and Safety Commission was now studying proposals for regulations for the conveyance of all hazardous substances.
The Minister turned down a suggestion that toxic loads should be carried only on designated routes. The national system of routes for 'heavy lorries, he said, would apply equally to those carrying toxic substances. But, at least MAI-, ally, the national system would. be advisory. Local authorities could use their road traffic regulation powers to impose prohibitions on roads away' from the network.