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Load Safety

Warning

None of this information is official advice, and should not be used in lieu of a licenced DGSA. If you have any doubts, please check with a licensed DGSA.

Basics of Load Safety

You can estimate whether a good counts as a dangerous load by using our easy-to-use load calculator.

The safety of a load, and the potential need for a dangerous goods safety advisor, can be evaluated using the load safety metric.

Index = Units[kg,L] ⋅ CategoryMultiplier

If the sum of all indexes in a load go above 1000, the load is designated as a dangerous load.

The category is the relative danger of the good being loaded. This number ranges from 0(very dangerous) to 4(relatively safe), and each number is assigned a category multiplier (CM), which will be detailed below.

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Warning

Terry check all the information below here very carefully.

Examples include:

  • 0: Antimatter [Silly example] (CM=inf.)
  • 1: Explosives (CM=50)
  • 2: Flammable Gas (CM=3)
  • 3: Flammable Liquid (CM=1)
  • 4: Flammable Solid (CM=0)

Note that this is extremely simplified.

In these cases, you would be required to follow DGSA guidelines above and equal to the following amounts:

  • Antimatter - 0kg
  • Explosives - 20kg
  • Flammable Gas - 333.33 L,Kg
  • Flammable Liquid - 1000 L, Kg
  • Flammable Solid - Infinite amounts.