The Carriage of Explosives by Road Regulations 1996

Loading, stowage, unloading and cleaning of vehicles and containers

19.—(1) The operator and any other person engaged in the carriage of explosives shall take such steps as it is reasonable for them respectively to take to ensure that nothing in the manner in which explosives are loaded, stowed or unloaded from a vehicle or container is liable to create a significant risk or significantly increase any existing risk to the health or safety of any person, arising out of the presence of those explosives.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the operator, driver and any attendant shall ensure that the requirements of Schedule 7 are complied with.

(3) The driver and the operator of a vehicle which—

(a) is being used for the carriage of explosives which require labelling in accordance with regulation 6(5) of the 1983 Regulations; or

(b) is empty, uncleaned having been used for the carriage of such explosives,

shall ensure that no food is carried in that vehicle unless it is effectively separated from any such explosives or is otherwise adequately protected from the risk of contamination by those explosives.

(4) No driver or member of the crew of a vehicle which is being used for the carriage of explosives shall open a package containing any explosives unless authorised to do so by the operator of that vehicle.