{"id":3435,"date":"2022-08-31T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/?page_id=3435"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:28:01","slug":"transporting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/hazardous-materials\/biological\/transporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Transporting biological materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Transporting biological materials is a regulated activity and you must do it following the guidelines and regulations below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-content\/uploads\/Transport-by-walking.pdf\">Transport by walking<\/a> [.pdf &#8211; 452KB]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-content\/uploads\/Transport-by-post-plane-vehicle.pdf\">Transport by post, plane or land vehicle<\/a> [.pdf &#8211; 266KB]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transport Regulations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iata.org\/publications\/dgr\/Pages\/index.aspx\">The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auspost.com.au\/sending\/check-sending-guidelines\/dangerous-prohibited-items\">The Australia Post Dangerous and Prohibited Goods guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructure.gov.au\/infrastructure-transport-vehicles\/transport-strategy-policy\/transport-australia\/transport-dangerous-goods\">Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/publications\/Pages\/IMDG%20Code.aspx\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/publications\/Pages\/IMDG%20Code.aspx\">International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogtr.gov.au\/resources\/publications\/guidelines-transport-storage-and-disposal-gmos\">The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR), Guidelines for the transport of GMOs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian Standard for packaging for surface transport of biological material that may cause disease in humans, animals and plants (AS 4834). (<a href=\"https:\/\/databases.library.curtin.edu.au\/?letter=I\">All Australian Standards are accessible through the Library Intertek Inform database<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unece.org\/?id=3598\">United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods \u2013 Model Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transporting biological materials is a regulated activity and you must do it following the guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":3419,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3435\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}