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E labelling of road tankers rying dangerous loads is to extended—and made cornsory.
Ar Harold Walker, Under:retary for Employment, orted in the Commons last ek that the chairman of the alth and Safety Commission 1 informed him that it was intention to put forward islative proposals which uld require the labelling of d tankers carrying danger; goods.
iubject to the practical )erience gained from the ration of the present voluntary scheme, it was anticipated that these proposals would make mandatory the requirements of the present scheme.
Mr Walker added that work was already in hand to extend the voluntary scheme to cover the carriage of multi-loads and of hazardous waste.
Initially, the proposal was to extend on a voluntary basis, as it would in this way be possible to bring the labelling system into much wider use without the inevitable delays which occurred during the processes of consultation necessary before appropriate labelling could be made mandatory.
It was, said Mr Walker, nevertheless proposed that the necessary consultative action would commence as soon as the widened voluntary scheme had been agreed.
It was the stated aim of the Commission that regulations requiring the labelling of all tankers carrying dangerous goods according to the requirements of the United Kingdom Hazard Information Scheme should be brought into force by means of regulations as soon as this was reasonably practicable.