Hazmat shipping paper guides

• How to fill out a hazmat shipping paper — A step-by-step walkthrough of a compliant DOT ground hazmat shipping paper: shipper, consignee, basic description, emergency info and the shipper's certification.
• The required order of a hazmat basic description — The required sequence for a hazmat basic description: identification number, proper shipping name, hazard class, packing group — and where RQ, Waste and technical names go.
• N.O.S. entries: when you must add a technical name — When a proper shipping name ends in n.o.s. you must add a technical name in parentheses. How the rule works and what counts as a technical name.
• Emergency response information and the 24-hour phone number — What emergency response information a shipping paper must carry, and the rules for the 24-hour emergency telephone number under 49 CFR 172.604.
• The shipper's certification (49 CFR 172.204) — What the 49 CFR 172.204 shipper's certification says, why it's required, and who signs it on a ground hazmat shipment.
• RQ, Waste and Marine Pollutant on a shipping paper — How reportable quantity (RQ), hazardous waste and marine pollutant notations appear on a hazmat shipping paper, and when each one is required.