Talk:Hazardous material

References in popular culture
For hazmat training,packing,consulting and documentation services see www.restrictedarticles.com, thanks.___________

I edited a few things on this page.

1. I added group 6.3 (PGIII) poisons. 2. I replaced "flash powders" with "display fireworks" for explosive class 1.3. Flash powder is actually classified as a 1.1 explosive. 3. I replaced "hydrogen cyanide" with "potassium cyanide" and "mercuric chloride" for poison class 6.1. Hydrogen Cyanide is actually classified as a 2.3 compressed (poison) gas.

Class 1
why does it seem that no one knows the whole truth about explosives and even less know about the classes?

Training Materials
I have posted the beginnings of training materials for HazMat personnel on Wikiversity:School of Fire and Emergency Management. Would you folks be interested in posting information and content to it? If so, let me know on the Talk page of the site or email me.--Mfinney 19:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

this article appears to have been wiped out
It looks like someone decided about 10 April that most of the material in this article did not belong. Comments? Should I restore the longer version?

It seemed to me that a major part of what had been here was specific to transportation of hazardous materials and perhaps belonged in a separate article, or merged with similar material in the Dangerous Goods article. Pzavon 01:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Suggested merge with dangerous goods
Please discuss at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_mergers#October_2006 -- 790 21:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Dangerous Goods and Hazardous Material are synonymous. The term "Dangerous Goods" is used internationally and the term "Hazardous Material" or "HazMat" is used in the United States. Therefore, only one Wiki page covering Dangerous Goods / Hazardous Materials should exist. Manu 01:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

That seems reasonable given the current contents of the page however as I got to this from a link to "hazardous chemicals" which is not the same topic there needs to be a replacement for this page with those details Patricksears 15:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Good point... When the Hazardous Material and Dangerous Goods pages are merged, the hazmat page should not be deleted but rather tagged as a stub for hazardous chemicals (not sure how this can be done, but I guess we'll learn!) Is this appropriate? Manu 22:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

If these two ARE in fact merged, my question is this "If they are merged together, could I bring up the website and type in Hazardous Materials and still get this? Or would I HAVE to type in Dangerous Goods?" --FJBMinor 16:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well I guess one or both of them should become a redirect, the article starting maybe like Dangerous Goods (BE) or Hazardous Materials (AE) are ...  -- 790 19:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Of course the title that did not survive as an article would become a redirect. Pzavon 02:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Will the pages be merged? E-pen 12:51, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. Pairadox 06:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)