Australian Standard 2809.1 & 2 release 9th April 2020

Australian Standards have released the latest versions for 2809.

Publication Number AS 2809.1:2020
Title: Road tank vehicles for dangerous goods, Part 1: General requirements for all road tank vehicles
Publishing Date: 09-04-2020

 Publication Number AS 2809.2:2020
Title:Road tank vehicles for dangerous goods, Part 2: Road tank vehicles for flammable liquids
Publishing Date: 09-04-2020

Points to be aware of:

• AS 2809.1 & 2 2020 become active from the date of release of the 9^th April 2020. (this simply means that anyone in Australia can now build a vehicle to these new standards)
• Standards are not retrospective; so vehicles built prior to the 9^th April 2020 are not required to meet AS 2809.1 & 2 2020, vehicles built prior to the 9^th April 2020 are required to meet the previous standard of AS2809.1 & 2 2008
• Competent Authorities Panel (CAP) members agreed that a 12 month transition period from the date of publication (9^th April 2020) of AS 2809.1 & 2 2020 would be a reasonable compromise between: the need to ensure that tankers are being designed and built to the latest edition of the standard, and allowing manufacturers and regulators the necessary time to begin manufacturing or approving tankers to the new standard.

We were planning on holding information and question sessions across the country, but unfortunately this has been thwarted due to COVID-19.

We are working with specialists within the transport industry on the development of guidelines, instructions and checklists designed to assist manufactures, owners, repairers, service providers and fuel terminal operators to better understand the affects the new standards will have on their operations.

More will be released in the near future on how we will assess, identify and approve vehicles built to these new standards.

Please feel free to contact us at SLP for more information.

Lee Stringer
Safe Load Program Manger