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Legacy ID
16
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Significant Regulatory Guidance
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Identifying Hazardous Materials in Your Community

Placards serve as an easily identifiable, visual source of information used by millions of workers in the transportation, public safety, and hazmat industries. Placards are diamond-shaped and when required, they must be placed on both ends and both sides of trucks, railcars, and intermodal...